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[CITE: 10USC442]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
             CHAPTER 22--NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--MISSIONS AND AUTHORITY
 
Sec. 442. Missions

    (a) National Security Missions.--(1) The National Imagery and 
Mapping Agency shall, in support of the national security objectives of 
the United States, provide the following:
        (A) Imagery.
        (B) Imagery intelligence.
        (C) Geospatial information.

    (2) Imagery, intelligence, and information provided in carrying out 
paragraph (1) shall be timely, relevant, and accurate.
    (b) Navigation Information.--The National Imagery and Mapping Agency 
shall improve means of navigating vessels of the Navy and the merchant 
marine by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of Defense, 
accurate and inexpensive nautical charts, sailing directions, books on 
navigation, and manuals of instructions for the use of all vessels of 
the United States and of navigators generally.
    (c) Maps, Charts, Etc.--The National Imagery and Mapping Agency 
shall prepare and distribute maps, charts, books, and geodetic products 
as authorized under subchapter II of this chapter.
    (d) National Missions.--The National Imagery and Mapping Agency also 
has national missions as specified in section 120(a) of the National 
Security Act of 1947.
    (e) Systems.--The National Imagery and Mapping Agency may, in 
furtherance of a mission of the Agency, design, develop, deploy, 
operate, and maintain systems related to the processing and 
dissemination of imagery intelligence and geospatial information that 
may be transferred to, accepted or used by, or used on behalf of--
        (1) the armed forces, including any combatant command, component 
    of a combatant command, joint task force, or tactical unit; or
        (2) any other department or agency of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1112(a)(2), Sept. 23, 
1996, 110 Stat. 2678.)

                       References in Text

    Section 120(a) of the National Security Act of 1947, referred to in 
subsec. (d), is classified to section 404e(a) of Title 50, War and 
National Defense.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 50 section 404e.
