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Military Survey Defence Agency

Elmwood Avenue
Feltham
Middlesex TW13 7AH

Military Survey was established as a Defence Agency on 2 April 1991. Its role is to ensure the provision of geographic and geospatial support to defence planning, training and operations - providing the Armed Forces with the mapping they require throughout the world. Its net operating costs in 1998/99 were £91.4 million and it employed an average of 1,078 staff. The Chief Executive Military Survey is the ultimate Defence authority on geographic matters and has overall responsibility worldwide for geographic personnel in the UK and overseas. Military Survey supports a small central staff in MOD Main Building and occupies a number of sites at Feltham, Hermitage near Newbury, Tolworth, Guildford and Münchengladbach in Germany.

On 10 May 1999, the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State announced that two of these agencies -- JARIC and Military Survey -- would merge on 1 April 2000 into a new agency, the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency.