page_title: Technical intelligence
section_title: U.S. Intelligence organizations
hierarchical_section_title: Technical intelligence / U.S. Intelligence organizations
caption_attribution_description: English: National Security Agency headquarters circa 1950s. Note: NSA gratefully acknowledges Presidential Libraries and Museum entities and their staffs for their contribution of materials for its 60th Anniversary publication. Español: Sede de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional, alrededor de la década de 1950
context_page_description: Technical Intelligence is intelligence about weapons and equipment used by the armed forces of foreign nations. The related term, scientific and technical intelligence, addresses information collected or analyzed about the broad range of foreign science, technology, and weapon systems.
context_section_description: The primary agencies and organizations of the United States government  that are involved in the production of TECHINT reports and all-source intelligence S&TI are:
  Defense Intelligence Agency, is the primary intelligence agency of the Department of Defense. It is charged with providing military intelligence to policymakers, war-fighters, and defense planners in the Department as well as to national-level consumers and the United States Intelligence Community.
  The Missile and Space Intelligence Center, Redstone Arsenal, AL, which is a unit of the Defense Intelligence Agency.   MSIC is charged with producing scientific and technological intelligence on adversary surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), and ballistic missile systems with ranges less than 1000 km.
  National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) at Fort Detrick, MD, which is a unit of the Defense Intelligence Agency. AFMIC is the only organization in the world with this comprehensive medical intelligence mission. As such, it has a diverse customer base, from operational and tactical commanders, preventive medicine personnel, and medical planners and researchers to the policymakers in the DoD, the White House staff and other federal agencies.
  Military Services units
  National Ground Intelligence Center, Albemarle County, VA, just north of Charlottesville, which is a subordinate to the  U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command. The NGIC provides scientific and technical intelligence (S& TI) and general military intelligence (GMI) on foreign ground forces in support of military commanders, force and materiel developers, Department of the Army, Department of Defense, and National-level decisionmakers.
  National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson, OH, which is subordinate to the US Air Force, Air Intelligence Agency. In an extension of TECHINT, predecessors of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center were involved in the search for Unidentified Flying Objects in the 1950s and 1960s.
  A section in the Office of Naval Intelligence handles technical intelligence activities for the US Navy. Those activities were formerly carried out by the Naval Intelligence Service Center in Suitland, MD, and by its successor the Naval Technical Intelligence Center.
  National intelligence units
  National Security Agency, at Fort Meade, Maryland, does scientific and technical analysis on foreign communications and communications security equipment, as well as foreign research in these areas.
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