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                                                                                         Updated January 24, 2020

Defense Primer: Budgeting for National and Defense

Intelligence


Intelligence Community (IC) programs include the
resources (money and manpower) to accomplish IC goals
and responsibilities as defined by the U.S. Code and
Executive Order 12333. IC programs are funded through
the: (1) National Intelligence Program (NIP), which covers
the programs, projects, and activities of the IC oriented
towards the strategic requirements of policymakers, and (2)
Military Intelligence Program (MIP), which funds defense
intelligence activities intended to support tactical military
requirements and operations. The Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) and the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence (USD(I)) manage the NIP and MIP,
respectively, under different authorities.

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At the present time only the NIP topline figure must be
publicly disclosed based on a directive in statute. The DNI
is not required to disclose any other information concerning
the NIP budget, whether the information concerns particular
intelligence agencies or particular intelligence programs.
The Secretary of Defense also discloses annual MIP
appropriations figures back to 2007. For Fiscal Year (FY)
2018, the aggregate appropriated for the NIP and MIP
totaled $81.5B (NIP $59.4B, MIP $22.1B). For FY2019,
the aggregate amount appropriated for the NIP and MIP
totaled $81.7B (NIP $60.2B, MIP $21.5B). For FY2020,
the aggregate amount requested for the NIP and MIP totals
$85.7B (NIP $62.8B, MIP $22.9B).




The origins of the intelligence budget, separate and distinct
from the defense budget, date to reforms initiated in the
1970s to improve oversight and accountability of the IC. At
that time, the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP)
was managed by the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI),
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, and overseen
by the National Security Council (NSC). Congress
redesignated the NFIP as the NIP in the Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004
(P.L. 108-458 §1074). The IRTPA also provided for a
number of additional IC reforms including the position of
DNI. The DNI was given more budgetary authority over the
NIP than the DCI had over the NFIP. Intelligence
Community Directive (ICD) 104 provides overall policy to
include a description of the DNI's roles and responsibilities
as program executive of the NIP.


Military-specific tactical and/or operational intelligence
activities were not included in the NFIP. They were known


as Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities (TIARA) and
managed separately by the Secretary of Defense. TIARA
referred to the intelligence activities of a single service
that were considered organic to military units. In 1994,
Congress created a new category called the Joint Military
Intelligence Program (JMIP) for defense-wide intelligence
programs. In 2005, the Secretary of Defense signed a
memorandum that merged TIARA and JMIP to form the
MIP. DOD Directive 5205.12, signed in November 2008,
established policies and assigned responsibilities, to include
the USD(I)'s role as program executive of the MIP, acting
on behalf of the Secretary of Defense.

The IC established organizing principles called Rules of
the Road to loosely explain the two budget programs'
different but related structures. A program is primarily NIP
if it funds an activity that supports more than one
department or agency (such as satellite imagery), or
provides a service of common concern for the IC (such as
secure communications). The NIP funds the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the strategic intelligence
activities associated with the National Security Agency
(NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

A program is primarily MIP if it funds an activity that
addresses a unique DOD requirement. Additionally, MIP
funds may be used to sustain, enhance, or increase
capacity/capability of NIP systems. The DNI and USD(I)
work together in a number of ways to facilitate the
integration of NIP and MIP intelligence efforts. Mutually
beneficial programs may receive both NIP and MIP
resources.

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The IC's Intelligence Planning, Programming, Budgeting
and Evaluation (IPPBE) process allocates funding and
personnel resources supporting IC-wide capabilities
through the development and execution of the NIP and its
associated budget. The NIP addresses priorities described in
national security-related documents such as the National
Intelligence Strategy. The IPPBE process applies to all 17
components of the IC. Program managers control NIP
resources aligned with requirements for IC capabilities such
as geo-spatial intelligence, signals intelligence, and human
intelligence capabilities that may span several IC
components.

The DOD's Planning, Programming, Budgeting and
Execution (PPBE) process provides the funding for service
components and DOD intelligence agencies (DIA, NSA,
NGA, and the National Reconnaissance Office) required to
organize, train and equip military forces for combat, and to


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