MEDIA ADVISORY

DIA CHANGES DIRECTORSHIP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 13, 2012

WHAT:
Army Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. will hand over directorship of the Defense Intelligence Agency and command of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR) to Assistant Director of National Intelligence Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn during an official ceremony July 24.

Burgess is the senior military intelligence advisor to both the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also serves the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and director of national intelligence. Following the change of directorship and command ceremonies, Burgess will retire from the Army with 38 years of service.

WHO:
Presiding defense and national intelligence officials are: Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey
Commander of U.S. Strategic Command Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler

WHEN:
Tuesday, July 24 at 10 a.m.

WHERE:
DIA Headquarters
200 MacDill Boulevard
Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling
Washington, D.C. 20340

Media interested in attending must RSVP no later than July 18 at 5 p.m. to Monica Young Tullos, DIA Public Affairs Office, at 703-695-0071/703-614-7575 or Monica.tullos@dodiis.mil to coordinate base and building access, shuttle service or parking accommodations.

DIA is the nation’s premier all-source military intelligence organization.

It provides the nation’s most authoritative assessments of foreign military intentions and capabilities. The agency’s four core competencies -- human intelligence, all-source analysis, counterintelligence and technical intelligence -- enable military operations while also informing policy-makers at the defense and national levels.

DIA’s mission is unique and no other agency matches its military expertise across such a broad range of intelligence disciplines.