Message posted by lone wolf on November 19, 2004 at 21:18:07 PST:

SUMMARY: The National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to
remove its Flight Information
Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical
Flight Information File (DAFIF), and
related aeronautical safety of navigation
digital and hardcopy publications from
public sale and distribution.
This action is taken to accomplish the
following objectives: safeguarding the
integrity of Department of Defense
(DoD) aeronautical navigation data
currently available on the public
Internet; preventing unfettered access to
air facility data by those intending harm
to the United States, its interests or
allies; upholding terms of bi-lateral
geospatial data-sharing agreements;
avoiding competition with commercial
interests; and avoiding intellectual
property/copyright disputes with
foreign agencies that provide hostnation
aeronautical data.
The DAFIF and related digital
aeronautical information files will be
protected from general public access on
the NGA home page (http://
www.nga.mil). Aeronautical Flight
Information Publications (FLIP),
Navigation/Planning Charts (ONC, TPC,
etc.), and the DAFIF CD will be
available only through the Department
of Defense (DoD) distribution system.
U.S. Federal and State government
agencies, authorized government
contractors, and international agencies
that currently receive those products
under formal or informal geospatial data
exchange arrangements will not be
affected by this action.
DATES: NGA will implement this action
on October 1, 2005 (FY06).

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