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103 CFC’s J-2. However, the CAOC should first determine which of its needs can be met by utilizing Air Force reachback partnerships. National Agencies Defense Intelligence Agency. The JCS J-2 is dual-hatted as the Director of DIA. DIA is a major producer and manager of foreign military intelligence with a worldwide outlook. DIA is normally the first stop when analysts need foreign military intelligence to support targeting and assessment. In addition to the main DIA Center in Washington, DC, DIA maintains two specialized intelligence centers: › Missile and Space Intelligence Center provides worldwide scientific and technical intelligence concerning threat guided missile systems, directed energy weapons, selected space programs/systems and related C2 to support operationally deployed forces. MSIC has experts knowledgeable on SAMs as well as short-range ballistic missiles. › Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC) produces finished, all-source medical intelligence in support of military planning and operations. Assessments, forecasts, and databases are prepared on worldwide infectious disease occurrence, global environmental health risks, foreign military and civilian health care capabilities and trends, and militarily significant life science technologies. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is the primary national producer of geospatial-intelligence, which is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the earth. Products include controlled imagery, digital elevation data and selected feature information, which can be rapidly augmented and fused with other spatially referenced information such as intelligence, weather, and logistics data resulting in an integrated, digital view of the mission space. NGA also produces many of the maps and charts Airmen utilize for mission planning. National Security Agency employs mathematicians, linguists, engineers, and computer scientists focusing on information assurance (code making) and SIGINT (code breaking). NSA’s code breakers collect, process, analyze, and exploit foreign adversaries’ communications. NSA maintains its headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. However, it also has three regional centers, each with a regional focus. Defense Threat Reduction Agency is a combat support agency charged with developing methods to deal more effectively with threats by nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, and high explosive weapons of mass destruction and preventing future threats. The agency focuses DOD efforts to prepare for and respond to WMD attacks. These technologies provide commanders options for effective targeting against enemy WMD capabilities, WMD delivery methods, and underground or hardened structures, as well as enhanced capabilities to assess enemy WMD operations.