§454 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

§454 Exchange of mapping, charting, and geomatics data with foreign countries, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and academic institutions

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART I— - ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › Chapter CHAPTER 22— - NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - MAPS, CHARTS, AND GEOMATICS PRODUCTS › § 454

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can allow the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to share or provide mapping, charting, and geomatics data, supplies, and services to a foreign country or an international organization when there is an agreement to produce or exchange that data. The Secretary can also allow NGA to share those same items about areas outside the United States with a nongovernmental organization or an academic institution that does geospatial research or production, if there is an agreement to produce or exchange the data.

Title 10, §454

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(a)The Secretary of Defense may authorize the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to exchange or furnish mapping, charting, and geomatics data, supplies and services to a foreign country or international organization pursuant to an agreement for the production or exchange of such data.

(b)The Secretary may authorize the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to exchange or furnish mapping, charting, and geomatics data, supplies, and services relating to areas outside of the United States to a nongovernmental organization or an academic institution engaged in geospatial information research or production of such areas pursuant to an agreement for the production or exchange of such data.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “geomatics” for “geodetic” in section catchline and in two places in text. 2011—Pub. L. 112–81, § 923(b)(1), amended section catchline generally, substituting “Exchange of mapping, charting, and geodetic data with foreign countries, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and academic institutions” for “Exchange of mapping, charting, and geodetic data with foreign countries and international organizations”. Pub. L. 112–81, § 923(a), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b). 2003—Pub. L. 108–136 substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency”. 1996—Pub. L. 104–201 renumbered section 2795 of this title as this section and substituted “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” for “Defense Mapping Agency”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1996 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 104–201 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1124 of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as a note under section 193 of this title.