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§444 Support From Central Intelligence Agency

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART I — ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › CHAPTER 22 — NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY › SUBCHAPTER I — MISSIONS AND AUTHORITY › § 444

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency may give support to the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the NGA Director may accept that help. The CIA can provide administrative and contract services to NGA as if NGA were part of the CIA. Those services can include security police, and an NGA site that gets that security is treated as a CIA installation for section 15 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3515). Any support must be on terms the Secretary of Defense and the CIA Director agree to. The CIA may assign its staff to work at NGA for an unlimited time, ignoring usual limits on interagency details. Support can be paid for or provided at no cost. The Director of NGA may transfer NGA funds to the CIA Director, who may accept them and must spend them under the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) to provide the services or personnel.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §444

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Support Authorized.—
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency may provide support in accordance with this section to the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may accept support provided under this section.
(b)Administrative and Contract Services.—
(1)In furtherance of the national intelligence effort, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency may provide administrative and contract services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as if that agency were an organizational element of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(2)Services provided under paragraph (1) may include the services of security police. For purposes of section 15 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3515), an installation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that is provided security police services under this section shall be considered an installation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(3)Support provided under this subsection shall be provided under terms and conditions agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(c)Detail of Personnel.—
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency may detail personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency indefinitely to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency without regard to any limitation on the duration of interagency details of Federal Government personnel.
(d)Reimbursable or Nonreimbursable Support.—
Support under this section may be provided and accepted on either a reimbursable basis or a nonreimbursable basis.
(e)Authority To Transfer Funds.—
(1)The Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may transfer funds available for that agency to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for the Central Intelligence Agency.
(2)The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency—
(A)may accept funds transferred under paragraph (1); and
(B)shall expend such funds, in accordance with the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), to provide administrative and contract services or detail personnel to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. (e)(2)(B), is act June 20, 1949, ch. 227, 63 Stat. 208, which is classified generally to chapter 46 (§ 3501 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

2014—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 113–291, § 1071(c)(7)(A), substituted “(50 U.S.C. 3515)” for “(50 U.S.C. 403o)”. Subsec. (e)(2)(B). Pub. L. 113–291, § 1071(c)(7)(B), substituted “(50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)” for “(50 U.S.C. 403a et seq.)”. 2009—Pub. L. 111–84 repealed Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(c). See 2008 Amendment note below. 2008—Pub. L. 110–181 and Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(c), amended section identically, substituting “Director of the Central Intelligence Agency” for “Director of Central Intelligence” wherever appearing. Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(c), was repealed by Pub. L. 111–84. 2003—Subsecs. (a), (b)(1), (2), (c), (e)(1), (2)(B). Pub. L. 108–136 substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” wherever appearing.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2009 Amendment Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title X, § 1073(c), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2474, provided that the amendment made by section 1073(c)(10) is effective as of Oct. 14, 2008, and as if included in Pub. L. 110–417 as enacted.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1124 of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1996 Amendment note under section 193 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 444

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

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