NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD (NFIB). See
COMMITTEE ON IMAGERY REQUIREMENTS AND EX-
PLOITATION.NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (NFIP).
One of the three U.S. intelligence budgets, NFIP represents the re-
sources of the intelligence community (IC) nominally controlled by
the director of national intelligence (DNI). NFIP funds national-
level, government-wide intelligence programs, such as the Consoli-
dated Cryptologic Program (CCP), which pays for the activities of
the National Security Agency (NSA) and other signals intelligence
(SIGINT) programs of other community agencies, and the General
Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP), which funds the Defense In-
telligence Agency (DIA). It also includes the current management
account (CMA), which finances current intelligence operations. The
bulk of NFIPpays for Department of Defense(DOD) intelligence
programs, which, together with the portion allotted to the Central In-
telligence Agency (CIA), constitute over 95 percent of NFIP mon-
eys. The intelligence components of the civilian agencies represented
in the intelligence community absorb less than 5 percent of NFIP. See
alsoJOINTMILITARYINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM; TACTICAL
INTELLIGENCE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (NGA).
Established in November 2003, the NGAreplaced the National Im-
agery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) by incorporating geospatial in-
telligence, GEOINT, into its imagery and mapping capabilities.
NIMA had been established only in 1996 by consolidating the De-
fense Mapping Agency (DMA), the Central Imagery Office (CIO),
the National Photographic Interpretation Center(NPIC), the im-
agery exploitation unit of the Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA),
and other similar agencies. However, the need to employ geospatial
information—complete visualization of geographically referenced ar-
eas on the earth—induced Department of Defense(DOD) managers
to expand NIMA’s original jurisdiction. In addition to providing
geospatial intelligence, the NGAnow manages imagery intelligence,
or IMINT, in the U.S. government by setting imagery priorities, levy-
ing imagery requirements, and analyzing imagery for national cus-128 • NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD05-398 (2) Dictionary.qxd 10/20/05 6:27 AM Page 128