ABOUT DIA

Our diverse workforce is skilled in military history and doctrine, economics, physics, chemistry, world history, political science, bio-sciences and computer sciences. We travel the world, meeting and working closely with professionals from foreign countries.

At DIA, we provide military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning and operations and weapon systems acquisition. We plan, manage and execute intelligence operations during peacetime, crisis and war.

MISSION

Provide intelligence on foreign militaries

to prevent and decisively win wars

VISION

Illuminate opportunities to enable the U.S.

to outpace our strategic competitors

VALUES

DIA has a strong legacy centered on our ability to confront and overcome challenges while maintaining our core values. Embedded in these values are the leadership principles that guide us. These principles are the driving force that keep our workforce grounded, and are represented throughout the DIA enterprise.

Values graphic with text and circles, each section highlighting the Values of D-I-A.

LEADERSHIP

The Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a three-star military officer that rotates between Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines approximately every three years and is the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense and to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters of military intelligence. The DIA Director also chairs the Military Intelligence Board, which coordinates activities of the defense intelligence community. DIA has a Deputy Director and a Command Senior Enlisted Leader.

Lieutenant General Jeffrey A. Kruse, USAF
Director

Christine L. Bordine
Deputy Director

John E. Kirchhofer
Chief of Staff

Major General Dominic J.A. Goulet, CD
Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration

Major General Robert I. Kinney
Mobilization Assistant to the Director

Greg L. Ryckman
Deputy Director for Global Integration

CSM Kyle J. Gillam
Command Senior Enlisted Advisor

Lieutenant General Jeffrey A. Kruse, USAF

Director

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Kruse, U.S. Air Force, serves as the 23rd Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading its global intelligence mission and a 16,500-strong joint workforce. As the Director of DIA, Lt. Gen. Kruse serves as the Department of Defense’s senior military intelligence official supporting the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, military services, combatant commands, and the Director of National Intelligence by providing intelligence, counterintelligence, enterprise management, acquisition support, secure communications, and crisis support to policymakers and warfighters around the globe.

Prior to assuming his role at DIA, Lt. Gen. Kruse served as the Advisor for Military Affairs for the Director of National Intelligence and was awarded the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal. In this capacity — in partnership with executive leaders across DoD and the Intelligence Community — he oversaw and advocated for activities, capabilities and policies to drive enduring DoD-IC integration. Lt. Gen. Kruse also served as the Director for Defense Intelligence for Warfighter Support in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security.

Lt. Gen. Kruse has extensive operational and combat experience in multiple theaters around the globe. He served as the Director of Intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, deployed as the Director of Intelligence for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve in the Middle East, and served as the Senior Special Advisor to the Commander of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Throughout his career, Lt. Gen. Kruse commanded Air Force and joint units at the squadron, group and wing levels. Other assignments included serving as Chief of Legislative Affairs for U.S. Strategic Command and as a Programmer, Panel Chair, and Head of the Air Force’s “Engine Room,” which develops the service’s annual budget

Lt. Gen. Kruse earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Miami University in 1990, a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College in 1996, a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College in 2004, and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College at National Defense University in 2008.

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Christine L. Bordine

Deputy Director

Ms. Christine L. Bordine assists the DIA Director to execute DIA’s mission and managing a global multi-sector workforce of more than 16,500 dedicated to providing unparalleled all-source intelligence, collection and technical insight to warfighters, commands and defense policy makers.

Ms. Bordine’s career in the Intelligence Community includes assignments at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), DIA and the National Security Agency. As well as tours supporting J2 elements at European Command, US Cyber Command and United States Forces, Japan and the International Military Staff at NATO, HQ in Brussels, Belgium. She began her career at NSA as a voice language analyst in 1988.

In 2004, she briefly worked in the private sector for Northrop Grumman supporting CIA and standup of the ODNI for Collection (ODNI/C).

Returning to government service in 2006, she worked on the ODNI/C staff, helping to establish the Office of Technical Means, later serving as the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Technical Collection. In 2012, she completed a joint duty assignment to DIA leading the Collection Management Enterprise Office and was responsible for establishing the collection management career field and Department of Defense (DoD) collection management policy.

In 2012, Ms. Bordine joined the DIA team as an officer, serving as the Vice Deputy Director for Collection Management and the Vice Principal Deputy Director for Intelligence Integration, where she helped to establish the integrated intelligence centers. Beginning in 2015, she served as the Deputy Director for Intelligence at U.S. Cyber Command responsible for delivering intelligence support to cyber operations.

She rejoined NSA in 2018 and served as the Directorate of Operations Chief of Staff and the Deputy of Information and Intelligence Analysis. Most recently, she served as the Deputy Director, Directorate of Capabilities, where she led a global multi-sector workforce responsible for building, deploying, authorizing, and securing the information technology infrastructure and services that underpin every facet of the NSA mission.

Ms. Bordine was selected for the Senior National Intelligence Service in 2008 and the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in 2012 and is a 2017 Presidential Rank Award recipient. She holds a BA in Russian from New Mexico State University, an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and is a Certified Executive Coach.

Ms. Bordine and her husband have four adult children and a cantankerous basset named Rosie.

John E. Kirchhofer

Chief of Staff

John E. Kirchhofer became the chief of staff for DIA in June 2021. As DIA’s third ranking officer, he exercises an exceptionally wide and complex range of responsibilities to guide and direct strategies, operations, policy, and communications for the enterprise.

Prior to this appointment, Kirchhofer was DIA’s director for Mission Services. In this capacity, he led Agency efforts in providing critical support for the Agency’s intelligence operations, specifically in the areas of logistics, facilities, deployments, security, human resources and medical services. He simultaneously served as the Office Management and Infrastructure Career Field manager within DIA’s talent management system. Before this assignment, Kirchhofer was the director of the Academy for Defense Intelligence, and responsible for the professional development of the DIA workforce.

Kirchhofer began his career as a Department of the Army civilian with assignments at the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, 902d Military Intelligence Group, and Army G-2. He served as a planner, programmer, reports officer, information security specialist and collection manager.

In 2003, he joined the Counterintelligence Field Activity, which merged with DIA in 2008. In April 2010, Kirchhofer was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Level as the chief of enterprise strategies, Office of Counterintelligence and HUMINT Enterprise Management. In that capacity, he oversaw strategic planning, performance, lessons learned and functional management.

Kirchhofer was assigned as deputy of the Information Review Task Force in 2010, which was established by the secretary of defense in response to one of the largest compromises of military intelligence in history. He received a National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement medal for his efforts.

He was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in 2012 with duty as deputy chief, DIA Office of Counterintelligence, overseeing analysis, operations and strategies focused on detection and neutralization of foreign intelligence threats.

From 2013 to 2016, Kirchhofer served as the deputy and then chief financial officer for DIA, charged with managing the General Defense Intelligence Program and the DIA Military Intelligence Program, and overseeing all Agency and combatant command J2 acquisition and financial matters. During this period, he led the Agency through the first independent audit of its financial statement.

Kirchhofer earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and European studies from George Mason University, and a master's degree in international affairs from the George Washington University.

Greg L. Ryckman, USA

Deputy Director for Global Integration

Mr. Ryckman was appointed as the Deputy Director for Global Integration (DDGI) in April 2021. In this role, he is responsible for directing, coordinating, and prioritizing Agency mission portfolios, to include analysis, collection, operations, and partner integration, ensuring DIA can deliver timely intelligence in support of global strategic competition. He directly leads the DIA Integrated Intelligence Centers and provides mission oversight of the Directorates for Analysis, Operations, and Science & Technology.

Prior to becoming the DDGI, Mr. Ryckman served as the Director for Analysis, which included authorities as the Functional Manager for all-source analysis for the Defense Intelligence Enterprise and the Analysis Career Field Manager, responsible for overseeing the career development of DIA intelligence analysts. He has also served as Vice Director of Intelligence at United States Central Command. In that role, he provided leadership and oversight to the full spectrum of intelligence operations, analysis, operations, collections, and research in support of USCENTCOM. He also served as the Director of Intelligence representative to the national intelligence agencies and other policy-level organizations for intelligence resource requirements and future architectures, coordinating with offices in DoD, the Intelligence Community, the Services, and other Unified Commands, national labs, industry, and academia.

Mr. Ryckman’s previous senior assignments focused on South Asia, to include: Defense Intelligence Officer for South Asia and Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for Afghanistan. In these roles, he directed collection and analysis, managed production, mentored analysts, and served as primary advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan related issues. He deployed to Afghanistan as the Senior Intelligence Advisor to two consecutive ISAF Commanders.

He entered the Army in 1988 as an Armor Officer and became a Foreign Area Officer with a South Asia focus in 1995. His military assignments included Armor Platoon Leader during Operation DESERT STORM, as part of First Infantry Division. He is a graduate of the Pakistan Army Command and Staff College.

His formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern State University and a Master of Arts degree in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in War Studies from the University of Baluchistan, Quetta, Pakistan.

Mr. Ryckman’s military and civilian awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Department of the Air Force Award for Meritorious Civilian Service, Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award, Knowlton Award, and two DIA Director’s Awards.

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Organization

Headquarters
Staff Elements
Directorates
Intelligence Centers

Headquarters

• Director: Lt. Gen. Jeffery A. Kruse, USAF
• Deputy Director
• J2 Directorate for Intelligence
• Joint Functional Component Command - Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

Staff Elements

• Chief of Staff
• Chief Financial Officer
• General Counsel
• Inspector General
• Command Senior Enlisted Leader
• Equal Opportunity & Diversity Office
• Executive Secretariat
• Strategic Planning, Policy, & Performance Improvement Office
• Office of Corporate Communications

Directorates

• Directorate for Analysis
• Directorate for Operations
• Directorate for Science & Technology
• Directorate for Mission Services

Intelligence Centers

• Americas and Transregional Threats Center
• Asia Pacific Regional Center
• Europe/Eurasia Regional Center
• Middle East/Africa Regional Center

DIA THROUGH THE YEARS

1960s: Early Years

DIA’s activation plan was drafted by the Agency’s director designate, Lt. Gen. Joseph Carroll.
DIA occupied “A” and “B” Buildings at Arlington Hall Station from the early 1960s until the Agency moved to Bolling Air Force Base in 1984.
DIA validated and approved many U-2 missions from the 1960s through the 1990s. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, photo interpreters discovered Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba after U-2s flew over the island. The missiles were capable of hitting a significant portion of the United States.
DIA’s Defense Intelligence School was chartered in 1962.
In 1963, DIA established the Production Center at Arlington Hall Station. Under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Herron Maples, the Production Center allowed DIA to consolidate and integrate several production elements from the military services.
On Feb. 6, 1963, DIA’s John Hughes, special assistant to Carroll, conducted a televised briefing on the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba.
During the Vietnam War, DIA supported strategic bombing missions by providing target lists to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who then selected targets for individual missions.

1970s: Years of Transition

In November 1970, U.S. forces conducted a raid on the Son Tay prison camp in Vietnam to rescue American POWs. DIA provided intelligence support to this operation.
On May 26, 1972, President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement on the limitation of offensive arms in Moscow. The agreements created new intelligence requirements, resulting in increased production pressures for DIA’s analysts.
DIA was involved in Operation BABYLIFT — an effort to evacuate Vietnamese orphans from Saigon via aircraft. Tragically, five DIA employees were killed during the operation when the first flight crashed on takeoff on April 4, 1975.
Shortly after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia seized the U.S. container vessel SS Mayaguez. The ship and its crew were taken to an island off the coast of Cambodia. DIA coordinated intelligence efforts to locate the ship, and President Gerald Ford ordered a contingent of U.S. Marines to retrieve the vessel.
The Cobra Dane radar on Shemya Island became operational in 1977, and played a key role in evaluating Soviet ballistic missile capabilities throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

1980s: DIA Comes of Age

In 1981, DIA issued the first in a series of unclassified publications on the strengths and capabilities of Soviet military forces. “Soviet Military Power” was a lavish production that included dozens of color photographs and paintings depicting Soviet hardware. It was republished in 1983, and subsequently updated every year until 1991.
In April 1983, terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. Later that year, terrorists bombed the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American troops. As terrorist attacks increased in frequency in the mid-1980s, DIA established its first all-source fusion cell for terrorism analysis.
In October 1983, President Ronald Reagan ordered U.S. troops to Grenada for Operation URGENT FURY. DIA provided the bulk of the intelligence work in support of the operation. This marked the first time since the 1970 raid of the Son Tay prison camp that DIA supplied operational and tactical intelligence to combat forces.
The new Defense Intelligence Analysis Center opened in 1984. The new building allowed the Agency to benefit from the consolidation and centralization of personnel and missions formerly scattered in a number of locations across the National Capital Region.
In 1986, DIA supported Operation EL DORADO CANYON, which saw the U.S. military launch a series of air strikes against Libya in response to Libyan-sponsored terrorist attacks in Berlin. DIA aided planning for the operation by providing target lists and identifying Libyan air defenses.
In October 1986, DIA received its first Joint Meritorious Unit Award for providing “unparalleled intelligence support encompassing the broadest range of intelligence analysis, technical services, photographic processing and reconnaissance imagery to meet the real time requirements of national decision makers.” DIA’s support to counterterrorism operations was singled out for special acknowledgement.
The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 designated DIA as a “combat support agency,” a major milestone in the Agency’s history that resulted in an expansion of DIA’s missions.
In November 1989, following several weeks of unrest, the East German government announced that it would permit visits to West Germany and West Berlin. Exuberant crowds of East and West Germans began to dismantle the Berlin Wall. The fall of the Berlin Wall was soon followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War — ushering in a new and challenging era for DIA.

1990s: New Missions, New Adversaries

In the early stages of Operation DESERT STORM, DIA provided U.S. Central Command with much of the operational intelligence that allowed coalition air power to destroy Iraqi air bases, radar and air defense sites. In 1991, DIA received a Joint Meritorious Unit Award in recognition of its support to Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM.
In July 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. At the time, DIA analysts had predicted Gorbachev’s imminent fall from power. Within months, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
In 1992, the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, located in Huntsville, Alabama, became a field production element of DIA. MSIC personnel provide intelligence on short-range missile technologies found in surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank guided missiles, and short-range ballistic missiles.
The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, today known as the National Center for Medical Intelligence, became a field production element of DIA in 1992. NCMI’s mission includes monitoring foreign environmental health and infectious disease risks, foreign biotechnology development, and other issues that could potentially impact U.S. military operations and the health of U.S. troops.
From 1992 to 1993, DIA supported Operation RESTORE HOPE — the U.S. effort to capture Somali warlords who were preventing Somalis from receiving international assistance.
DIA deployed a National Intelligence Support Team to Bosnia from 1995 to 1996 to assist U.S. and NATO efforts to stop the genocidal war raging there. The NIST brought sophisticated and secure communications equipment to the combatant commands to support rapid turnaround intelligence requirements from the field.
In 1996, terrorists bombed the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. troops. Following this attack, DIA created the Office for Counterterrorism Analysis.

2000s: Years of Transition

On September 11, 2001, a group of foreign terrorists flew two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked aircraft crashed in a field in western Pennsylvania. The attacks claimed approximately 3,000 lives, including seven DIA employees.
In response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. launched Operation ENDURING FREEDOM on October 7, 2001, to destroy terrorist camps and topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Hundreds of DIA personnel eventually deployed to Afghanistan to provide analytic support, assist with document exploitation, support prisoner interrogations and provide direct support to military operations.
The U.S. launched Operation IRAQI FREEDOM in March 2003, in response to the perceived threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Many deployed DIA analysts worked at the Perfume Palace in support of the effort.
Starting in the months after Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, DIA supported and participated in the efforts of the Iraq Survey Group, a 1,400-member international team formed to locate evidence of weapons of mass destruction developed under Hussein.
The Defense Intelligence Analysis Center expansion was completed in summer 2005. The first group to occupy the new facility included 66 employees from the Directorate for MASINT and Technical Collection.
In 2010, the new Joint Use Intelligence Analysis Facility opened in Rivanna Station in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In 2011, the Russell-Knox Building opened at Quantico Marine Corps Base. This building houses elements of five military investigative agencies, including DIA’s Counterintelligence and HUMINT center.