Australian Imagery Organisation
AIO
1998 – 8 November 2000
Defence intelligence agency responsible for imagery intelligence: acquiring, exploiting and distributing satellite and aerial imagery and imagery-derived intelligence for the Australian Defence Force and government.
How it came into existence
Formed within the Department of Defence in the late 1990s (about 1998) by executive decision during the Defence Reform Program, bringing together Defence imagery analysis and exploitation elements, understood to have come chiefly from the Defence Intelligence Organisation.
- Imagery analysis and exploitation
Lineage from DIO's imagery elements is from memory and not verified.
How it ended
Merged on 8 November 2000, under a Cabinet directive, with the Directorate of Strategic Military Geographic Information and the Defence Topographic Agency to form the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation.
- Imagery intelligence
Main functions
- Imagery intelligence collection and exploitation
- Acquisition of commercial and allied satellite imagery
- Imagery analysis for military operations and planning
- Distribution of imagery products across Defence and government
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of Defence.
Lineage
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Sources
Some dates or links for this organisation are uncertain. Corrections are welcome.