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Purpose

This regulation provides policies and procedures for creating, maintaining, managing, and delivering geospatial information and services in support of the installations, energy and environment (IE&E) domain. This regulation applies to all accountable organizations, whether or not they are listed below. The purpose of this regulation is to provide a standardized approach to installation geospatial information collection, creation, management, and distribution and to strengthen the reliability, accountability, and security of that data. The Army Installation Geospatial Information and Services (IGI&S) program, as part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment (ASD (EI&E)), Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure, must establish processes for geospatial information quality control, reporting, and distribution.

Applicability. This regulation applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. It also applies to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and all U.S. Army accountable organizations listed or not. Specifically, this regulation is concerned with the acquisition, collection, management, storage, development, fielding, sustainment, training, production, visualization, and dissemination of geospatially- referenced installation information. For overarching Army policies, responsibilities, and procedures for an Army Geospatial Enterprise and for Geospatial Information and Services, see AR 115-11.