Pentagon reveals FY26 intelligence budget at $30.9 billion
Meanwhile, the National Intelligence Program budget was revealed at $78.1 billion.
Meanwhile, the National Intelligence Program budget was revealed at $78.1 billion.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, the position of Director of National Intelligence, (DNI) was created to close the gaps in the US Intelligence Community.
DoD officials are extremely aware, almost to the point of paranoia, that even discussing the issue of NRO potentially being subsumed by the Space Force is playing with fire.
"We've got teams that are working side by side with the JAIC team and obviously the leadership continuity there is key for us. And we're also working across DoD. I see lines with the AIM initiative (Augmenting Intelligence using Machines) within the IC."
Ever since the day of its creation, critics have slammed the Office of Director of National Intelligence as an expensive and unnecessary bureaucracy, a threat to the longtime primacy of the Director of Central Intelligence and a toothless tiger. Much of that changed during the joint tenures of DNI Mike McConnell and SecDef Bob Gates […]