[MilCom] NGA

[Jack Nesmith]

NEWS RELEASE

Public Affairs Office

Release Date: July 1, 2005 Contact: Jim Mohan, (314) 263-4142

Release Number: 05-09 James.G.Mohan at nga.mil

NGA Reviewing Public Comments on Aeronautical

Safety of Navigation Publications

St. Louis, Mo. -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) 
officially closed

on June 30, 2005 the public comment period concerning its proposal to remove 
its Flight

Information Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical Flight Information 
File

(DAFIFT), and related aeronautical safety of navigation digital and hardcopy

publications from public sale and distribution.

The review, which was announced by NGA in a Dec. 3, 2004 press release, 
resulted in

several hundred responses to NGA. Agency officials will assess and evaluate 
the public

input to make a final determination if it is necessary to change or modify 
the original

proposal. The Agency has also begun a dialogue with a number of interest 
groups

identified during the public comment period to gain further insight into 
those groups

issues and concerns. The evaluation period should be completed by 
mid-September with

a final decision expected in the October/November 2005 timeframe.

NGA is a national intelligence and combat support agency whose mission is to 
provide

timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of 
national security.

Geospatial intelligence is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and 
geospatial

information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and 
geographically

referenced activity on the earth. Headquartered in Bethesda, MD., NGA has 
major

facilities in the Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, and St. Louis, Mo., 
areas with NGA

support teams worldwide.

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