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Is DIA: Introduction to DIA
Overview: The Defense Intelligence Agency is a Department of Defense
combat support agency and an important member of the United States
Intelligence Community. With more than 16,500 military and civilian employees
worldwide, DIA is a major producer and manager of foreign military
intelligence. We provide military intelligence to warfighters,
defense policymakers and force planners, in the Department of Defense
and the Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning
and operations and weapon systems acquisition.
The Director of DIA is a three-star military officer who serves
as principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense and to the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters of military intelligence.
The Director also chairs the Military Intelligence Board, which
coordinates activities of the defense intelligence community.
DIA is headquartered at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., with
major operational activities at the Defense Intelligence Analysis
Center (DIAC), Washington, D.C., the National Center for Medical Intelligence
(NCMI), Frederick, Maryland, and the Missile and Space
Intelligence Center (MSIC), Huntsville, Alabama.
Our workforce is as diverse as our missions. We possess a workforce
skilled in the areas of military history and doctrine, economics,
physics, chemistry, world history, political science, bio-sciences,
and computer sciences to name a few.
Our mission is to satisfy the military and military-related intelligence requirements of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the DNI, and provide the military intelligence contribution to national foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. We plan, manage, and execute intelligence operations during peacetime, crisis, and war. We serve as the DoD lead for coordinating intelligence support to meet COCOM requirements; lead efforts to align analysis, collection, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities with all operations; and link and synchronize Military, Defense, and National Intelligence capabilities.
Our employees
travel the world, and meet and work closely with other professionals
from foreign countries. We offer our employees personal development
through many education and training programs. We provide our employees
with state-of-the-art computers and technical equipment needed
to perform our mission. We offer worldwide assignments within DIA,
to other U. S. agencies and to military centers of excellence. |
