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The Army Geospatial Center (AGC) [2] (formerly Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)) is a Major Subordinate Command of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [3] It is located in Alexandria, Virginia, within the Humphreys Engineering Center adjacent to the Fort Belvoir military reservation. [4]
The Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) is a component of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) laboratory organization whose mission is to "Provide science, technology, and expertise in engineering and environmental sciences in support of our Armed Forces and the Nation to make the world safer and better."
On September 1, 1968, the AMS was redesignated the U.S. Army Topographic Command (USATC) and continued as an independent organization until January 1, 1972, when it was merged into the new Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) and redesignated as the DMA Topographic Center (DMATC).
The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers was a branch of the United States Army authorized on 4 July 1838. It consisted only of officers who were handpicked from West Point [ 1 ] and was used for mapping and the design and construction of federal civil works such as lighthouses and other coastal fortifications and navigational routes.
Its main responsibilities are to control the Armed Forces of the United States. It is headed by the Secretary of Defense . The department was established in 1947 and is divided into three major Departments—the Department of the Army , Navy and Air Force , as well as a number of other component organizations.
The Engineer Topographic Battalion's wartime mission was the development of accurate 4-color topographic maps created through timely survey work, drafting, printing, and distribution of military maps as required by the Allied Armed Forces of the United States. The Battalion was first formed in December 1943 and deactivated in December 1946.
In the 1970’s the United States imposed an arms embargo (Turkey–United_States_relations#Greece_(Cyprus,_Arms_embargo)) on Turkey that had significant impacts on the military construction mission there. The embargo was lifted in 1978 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reopened its field site in Turkey in Ankara in 1979 ahead of the signing ...
This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Former military installations of the United States. A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any “base, camp, post ...