text: Army Space Capabilities
  COMMERCIAL IMAGERY
  3-116. Unclassified commercial satellite imagery is used by U.S. forces, other government agencies, and
  multinational partners in the combatant commander’s area of responsibility to enhance knowledge of the
  environment within the operational area. All Army organizations and units requiring collection from national
  or commercial remote sensing capabilities go through local or regional G-2 (or unit equivalent) Collection
  Management sections. A tasking request for remote sensing data is process, validated, prioritized, and
  submitted for collection. When located at an organization that does not have a local or regional G-2 Collection
  Management section, Army personnel shall contact the Army Departmental Requirements Office at:
  armydro@nga.mil.
  3-117. The NRO serves as the DOD lead for all acquisition or exchange of commercial imagery. Army
  personnel are required to acquire commercial imagery through existing DOD or intelligence community
  imagery libraries to the greatest extent possible. When required imagery is unavailable from an approved
  imagery library, Army personnel are permitted to request a new tasking from space-based sensors following
  established procedures through the Army Geospatial Center Imagery Office. When new tasks are not satisfied
  through established processes, Army units may acquire commercial imagery direct from vendors who have
  a pre-established contract with the U.S. government. The Army Geospatial Center Imagery Office (available
  at dll-agc-aio@usace.army.mil) collaborates directly with U.S. agencies, services, commercial satellite, and
  aerial digital imagery vendors to provide requested imagery.
  3-118. The SSEs, ARSSTs, and Army space control planning teams rely on unclassified commercial space-
  based imagery for planning and real-time operations. Commercial imagery is used in support of defense
  support of civil authorities’ missions.
  TACTICAL EXPLOITATION OF NATIONAL CAPABILITY
  3-119. The Army TENCAP program delivers unique capability as the Army’s lead activity to influence,
  leverage, and integrate the national intelligence enterprise to benefit the Army through the space capabilities.
  The Army TENCAP program is vital to understanding, influencing, and integrating current and emerging
  national overhead systems data into the tactical decision making process.
  3-120. Army TENCAP evolved from the Army recognition that national overhead systems developed for
  the National Command Authorities had potential to support Army forces with space capabilities at the tactical
  level. Throughout the early and mid-1970s the Army explored the tactical applicability of national systems
  to corps level operations and began developing and fielding tools needed to leverage those systems. The
  office created to do this, under the auspices of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (now the Army
  assistant chief of staff, operations), became the Army TENCAP Program.
  3-121. The Army’s TENCAP Program is managed by Program Executive Office for Intelligence,
  Electronic Warfare, and Sensors and is directed by a general officer steering group chaired by the Assistant
  Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, Military Deputy, Army G-2. Selected
  Department of the Army headquarters principal staff, the Army Capabilities Integration Center, and the U.S.
  Army Intelligence Center of Excellence round-out a general officer steering group membership.
  3-122. The TENCAP mission is fivefold:
  * Conduct cross-agency systems engineering to leverage national capabilities for Army purposes;
  * Understand and influence national technologies and architectures;
  * Be the Army’s technical interface to the National Reconnaissance Office and the National
  Geospatial-Intelligence Agency;
  * Provide core engineering expertise across the national and theater intelligence, surveillance, and
  reconnaissance layers to integrate national capabilities within Army terrestrial, space, and
  foundation layers; and
  * Leverage the intelligence community’s investment in overhead technologies, and transition
  applicable technologies to the Army to satisfy validated Army requirements.