Exchange geospatial data and recycle map-sale receipts into foreign licensing fees
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · Intelligence research and information partnerships
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense authorizing NGA; Director NGA has specified withholding role.
- Executor · routing lead
- NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Qualifying production/exchange agreement; NGO/academic exchanges concern areas outside United States.
Pricing/release decisions and security/international-agreement restrictions.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Express map-sale receipts availability for specified licensing fees; other activities need normal funds.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Not unrestricted sale or release of classified or protected geospatial data.
- Proceeds authority is limited to foreign data-acquisition fees, not general reinvestment.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRelated evidence
Program process, audience and dated intake check (2026-10-04)
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.
Actor sources
- OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support
- 50 U.S.C. § 3038 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.