DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (MAPPING, CHARTING AND GEODESY)

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• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 21, 1962
• Content Type: REGULATION

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NUMBER 5105.27
Department of Defense Directive
SUBJECT Defense Intelligence Agency (Mapping, Charting
and Geodesy)
Reference: (a) DoD Directive 5105. 21, "Defense
Intelligence Agencyt"
A. This directive establishes a management arrange-
ment for Department of Defense mapping, charting
and geodetic activities under which:
All DoD mapping, charting, and geodetic
collection and production requirements will
be assembled, validated, integrated, and
ranked in priority, and determination will
be made as to how such requirements can
be satisfied most economically and
effectively;
2. A single DoD mapping, charting, and geodetic
program will be developed; and
3. A single authority will be made responsible
for managing the over-all DoD mapping,
charting, and geodetic program.
B. The provisions of this directive on mapping,
charting and geodesy do not include:
1. Area analysis (such as geographic and terrain
studies) except for cartographic and reproduction
support thereto;
DIA and OSD review(s) completed.
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2. Mapping activities of DoD military construc-
tion organizations in direct support of military
construction or civil works activities; and
3. Those aspects of photographic interpretation
and oceanography not directly related to
mapping, charting, and geodetic activities.
H. APPLICABILITY
The provisions of this directive apply to all components of
the Department of Defense.
A. Mapping, charting, and geodesy (MC&G) includes:
(1) field surveys for geodetic or map control; (2)
gravimetry; (3) geomagnetism; (4) hydrography and
those aspects of oceanography directly related to
mapping, charting and geodetic activities; (5) aerial
cartographid photography and airborne electronic
survey control; (6) satellite geodesy; (7) target material
graphics and target positioning data; (8) place-names
indexing; (9) cartographic phases of area analysis
intelligence production; (10) cartographic aspects of air
and sea navigation aids and systems; (11) terrain model
production; (12) evaluation of source data and products;
and (13) related activities.
B. Production encompasses those functions of DoD organi-
zations which support MC&G and related activities, such
as (1) field survey operations; (2) research for and evalu-
ation of source materials; (3) product evaluation, compi-
lation, drafting, reproduction (printing), and distribution;
(4) cartographic revision and maintenance; (5) operation
of source data libraries; (6) preparation of technical
studies and reports; (7) technical process development;
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(8) aerial cartographic photography; and (9)
airborne electronic control operations.
C. Related materials, or data, include all MC &G
source materials (and the activities for their
acquisition and processing) required for produc-
tion of (1) maps, charts, geodetic and geophysical
data; (2) air and sea navigation data and information
services; (3) oceanographic data; (4) terrain models;
(5) ocean bottom graphics and models; (6) place-
name indexes (gazetteers); (7) target material graphics;
(8) cartographic products prepared specifically to
support military planning and operations such as city
plans, escape and evasion graphics; (9) special graphics
for support of special forces activities; (10) special
graphics for support of specific weapons systems (e. g. ,
film strips and computer tapes for navigation control);
and (11) devices, graphics and publications to support
specific navigation systems.
D. Target materials encompasses the cartographic and
geodetic items of the Air Target Materials Program
(ATMP) and similar items identified in the plans of
unified and specified commanders. Target materials
include: (1) target charts and mosaics; (2) area radar
prediction analysis graphics; (3) missile target data
sheets and launch site data sheets; (4) hydrographic-
oceanographic data sheets; (5) target illustrations;
(6) geodetic data sheets; (7) graphic indexes and
catalogs of such items; and (8) similar items of target
materials established by the unified and specified
commanders. It does not include: (1) Bombing
Encyclopedia (BE); (2) Target Data Inventories;
(3) Tactical Target BE Number Indexes; (4) Target
Annotation Supplements; or (5) other items consisting
solely of textual or tabular target intelligence.
IV. FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
A. The Joint Chiefs of Staff shall establish over-all
requirements and priority guidance for DoD MC&G
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activities after consideration of recommendations
made by the Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA).
B. The Director, DIA, or his designees shall:
1. Develop, assemble, validate, integrate, and
rank in priority all DoD MC&G area requirements;
2. Develop, assemble, integrate, review, validate
and establish DoD-wide MC&G product require-
ments giving due recognition to those requirements
placed on DoD by statute;
3. Develop, assemble, validate, integrate, establish,
rank in priority, and assign MC&G collection
requirements;
4. Set specifications for MC &G production;
5. Establish production priorities, assign and
reassign all DoD production programs;
6. Establish production priorities, assign and
reassign production programs to those MC&G
production organizations of the unified and
specified commands to the extent that the
capabilities of such MC&G organizations are
available to satisfy DoD-wide MC&G production
requirements;
7. Consolidate, review, and assign the relative
military importance of DoD MC&G research
and development requirements;
8. Establish a uniform DoD system for geodetic
control;
9. Prepare and submit to the Secretary of Defense,
under established DoD procedures, a consolidated
DoD MC&G and related materials program,
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together with recommendations pertaining
thereto. The DIA program and budget will
include the estimates of the funds required
to finance MC&G activities organized within
and directly managed by DIA, and recommen-
dations with respect to the estimates of the
military departments of the funds required to
finance the approved MC&G activities which
the departments and commands conduct subject
to DIAts over-all management control;
10. Exercise management control over DoD MC&G
activities to include supervision of the execution
of-all approved MC&G plans, programs, policies,
and procedures;
11. Provide for obtaining the maximum economy
and efficiency in the management of DoD MC &G
re-sources;
12. Provide for meeting the MC&G area and product
requirements of all DoD components within
available resources;
13. Provide for DoD MC&G and related materials
contributions to:
a. The National Intelligence Survey;
b. Strategic and war plans of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff;
c. The ATMP;
d. The Amphibious Objective Study series;
e. Photographic interpretation projects; and
f. Other intra-governmental, international,
DoD-wide, or joint MC&G undertakings.
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14. Establish the DoD position for intra-governmental
and foreign MC &G agreements and provide DoD
representation in national and international
MC&G activities;
15. Provide for satisfying the emergency MC&G
requirements of the unified and specified
combatant commands;
16. Act as the agent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
on MC&G matters involving the unified and
specified commands;
17. Participate, as appropriate, in joint review of
the DoD MC &G program or elements thereof,
with other staff advisers of the Secretary of
Defense, such as the Director of Defense Research
and Engineering and the Assistant Secretaries of
Defense;
18. Maintain current information, as appropriate,
on private, other governmental, international,
and foreign MC&G organizations, capabilities,
facilities, and commitments;
19. Develop and establish, as appropriate and in
consonance with other DoD directives and instruc-
tions, DoD-wide security measures for the protection
of MC&G (1) records, (2) basic compilation data,
(3) photography, (4) maps, (5) charts, and (6)
related materials;
20. Develop, collate where appropriate, and review
recommendations for MC&G legislation which may
originate within or involve DoD;
21. Periodically apprise the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and the Secretary of Defense of developments,
plans, and progress in the MC&G field; and
22. Discharge such other MC &G functions and
responsibilities as may be required to achieve
the objectives of this directive.
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C. Commanders of unified and specified combatant
commands shall:
1. Establish within their headquarters the staff
capability to direct the MC&G activities of
their commands;
2. Assemble, validate, and rank in priority the
MC&G area and product requirements of
their commands and forward them to DIA;
3. Develop and forward to DIA their recommen-
dations on MC &G products, specifications, and
standardization agreements;
4. Determine their MC&G research and develop-
ment requirements;
5. Satisfy in as far as practicable their approved
MC&G requirements from assigned resources;
6. Provide, as requested by DIA, information on
MC&G programs and activities conducted by
their commands;
7. Identify to DIA those MC&G production capabilities
of their commands which are available to satisfy
DoD-wide requirements;
8. Conduct those MC&G activities assigned by
DIA; and
9. Prepare mid and long-range MC &G plans, in
accordance with guidance. provided by DIA, and
submit them to DIA.
D. The Secretaries of the military departments or their
designees shall:
1. Provide resources and other support services
to their respective MC&G production, collection,
and research and development organizations to
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include appropriate programming,
budgeting, funding, personnel manage-
ment, training, procurement, and
residual staff support services;
2. Provide logistic and administrative
support to their MC&G elements assigned
to the unified and specified commands;
3. Develop research and development projects
and programs in support of their approved
MC&G activities;
4. Develop and submit to DIA their departmental
MC &G area and product requirements;
5. Develop and forward to DLA their recommen-
dations on MC&G products, specifications, and
standardization agreements;
6. Provide, as requested by DIA, information on
MC&G programs and activities conducted by
their departments;
7. Conduct MC&G production programs and other
MC &G activities as signed by DIA; and
8. Prepare departmental MC&G programs and
budget estimates in support of the DoD MC&G
program.
The Relationships and Authority specified in reference (a)
are applicable to the functions and responsibilities assigned
by this directive to the Director, DIA. In addition, the
Director, DIA, is specifically authorized to:
A. Establish and promulgate whatever administrative
and managerial procedures, methods, and systems
are necessary to achieve the objectives of this
directive.
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B. Satisfy emergency production requirements by
tasking the production assets of any unified or
specified command, regardless of previous
commitments of such assets, when approved by
the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Secretary of
Defense.
VL EFFECTIVE DATE AND IMPLEMENTATION
A. This directive is effective upon publication. Its
provisions will be implemented as determined by
the Director, DIA.
B. When the Director, DIA, assumes a function or
responsibility assigned by this directive, all DoD
components will review their existing directives,
instructions, and regulations for conformity; make
necessary changes thereto within 90 days; and notify
the Director, DIA, and the Secretary of Defense
when changes are completed.
C. The transfer of MC&G funds, facilities, equipment,
personnel authorizations, and civilian personnel to
DIA from other DoD components will be accomplished
under established DoD procedures.
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Secretary of Defense
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