National Geospatial Intelligence Headquarters, Virginia

Known as NGA Campus East, this is the headquarters for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which provides location-based information to the federal government’s military and intelligence organizations. It identifies and locates things that could be of importance or strategic interest to the USA. Their job, in a sense, is to know what everything is, and where it is, everywhere in the world, including in the USA. Its motto is "Know the Earth... Show the Way... Understand the World" To do so, it uses satellites and other sources of geospatial information, and engages the efforts its staff of 14,500 government and contractor personnel, 2/3 of which work here, with the rest working at its two sites in St. Louis. The NGA was established in 2003, to consolidate and more effectively interpret federal aerial imaging resources, including those of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, NGA’s precursor agency. (That agency, established in 1996, has its roots in the Defense Mapping Agency, and, before that, the National Photographic Interpretation Center, the Army Map Service, and others). The NGA Campus East complex opened in 2011. It is said to be third largest government building in the Washington region, after the Pentagon, and the main building at the NSA. The budget is classified.