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Joint Force Targeting Duties and Responsibilities III-17 GEOINT analysis and products at the national level. In addition to the GEOINT support identified in JP 2-01, Joint and National Intelligence Support to Military Operations, and JP 2-03, Geospatial Intelligence Support to Joint Operations, NGA’s mission supports national and homeland security, and advanced weapons and systems development. 1. NGA works with commercial imagery vendors to procure diverse, unclassified imagery. 2. NGA can provide GEOINT support to combatant commands via an NGA support team or as part of a national intelligence support team (NIST). NISTs are established at each combatant command headquarters. The NIST provides the full spectrum of NGA’s GEOINT capabilities and is composed of a core cadre that includes geospatial analysts, imagery analysts, and staff officers. The NIST also has full connectivity with NGA to ensure reachback capability into NGA’s total support effort. 3. Targeting support products use advanced geospatial-intelligence analytical techniques and technologies, geodetically-controlled source material, and refined mensuration techniques and data. NGA is a major contributor to the success of the military operations in supplying needed intelligence, mission specific data sets, and foundational data to support the targeting effort. NGA assists in providing foundational data for national and international contingency planning and post disaster event analysis. 4. NGA’s imagery analysts play a critical role in federated target development and assessment. NGA informs the NJOIC, combatant command JIOCs, and other interested commands and agencies as analysis affecting targets of interest occur in each respective OA. 5. CJCSI 3505.01, Target Coordinate Mensuration Certification and Program Accreditation, establishes NGA as the accreditation authority for mensuration certification training programs under this instruction. For additional information, see JP 2-03, Geospatial Intelligence Support to Joint Operations. (f) Defense Threat Reduction Agency. DTRA provides special tools and expertise on WMD and helps safeguard the US and its allies by providing capabilities to eliminate, reduce, and/or counter these threats and/or mitigate their effects. DTRA’s work covers a broad spectrum of activities, but is directly involved in the targeting process by making collateral damage and casualty estimations when employing weapons against facilities that may contain WMD. DTRA also provides target characterization and high fidelity weapons effects modeling to support physical and functional defeat of hardened and deeply buried targets. DTRA also verifies existing foreign controls of stockpiles of nuclear- related equipment and materials. (g) Joint Information Operations Warfare Center. The JIOWC, a CJCS controlled activity under the JS J-3, assists JS in improving DOD ability to meet combatant command information-related requirements, improve development of information-related capabilities, and ensure operational integration and coherence across combatant commands and other DOD activities in accordance with CJCSI 5125.10, Charter of the Joint