Imagery is perhaps one of the fastest growing commodities on the internet. These images serve the Defense Community for operational intelligence and documentation of operations. They are also used in command information products and briefings.

AFIS is responsible for the Joint Combat Camera Center in the Pentagon. The center collects and distributes imagery provided by the Services' combat camera teams which are deployed throughout the world.

The Center operates a near real-time Internet web site and also issues special CD-ROM collections of related imagery.

Photo imagery (still, motion, video) is one of the fastest growing demands from internal and external publics.

One of our greatest challenges is to maintain that imagery so that it is easily accessible when needed. The difficulties of receiving, cataloging, storing, and retrieving hundreds of thousands of images is daunting at best.