Editing Defense Intelligence Agency (section)

== Overview ==
The [[Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency]] is an intelligence officer who is nominated by the [[President of the United States|US President]] and confirmed by the [[Senate of the United States|US Senate]]. He or she is the primary intelligence adviser to the [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] and also answers to the [[Director of National Intelligence]]. The Director is also the Commander of the [[Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance]], a subordinate command of [[United States Strategic Command]], which is headquartered [[Offutt Air Force Base|in Omaha]], Nebraska. Additionally, he or she chairs the [[Military Intelligence Board]], which coordinates activities of the entire [[United States Intelligence Community#Organization|US defense intelligence community]].<ref name="DIA Main">DIA Public Web Page, [http://www.dia.mil/thisisdia/intro/index.htm This Is DIA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212234103/http://www.dia.mil/thisisdia/intro/index.htm |date=February 12, 2010 }}</ref>

[[File:Bird's eye view of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Headquarters from Potomac, Washington DC.jpg|thumb|Bird's eye view of [[Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters|DIA HQ]] from the [[Potomac River|Potomac]] in Washington, DC]]
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DIA is [[Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters|headquartered]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], on [[Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling]] with major operational activities at [[the Pentagon]] and at each [[Unified Combatant Command]], as well as in more than a hundred [[List of diplomatic missions of the United States|U.S. embassies]] around the world, where it deploys alongside other government partners (e.g., the CIA) and also operates the [[Defense Attache System|U.S. Defense Attache Offices]].<ref>[http://www.dia.mil/careers/locations/ DIA:Locations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127080415/http://www.dia.mil/careers/locations/ |date=November 27, 2013 }}, Defense Intelligence Agency, Updated: February 5, 2013. Retrieved: September 28, 2013.</ref> Additionally, the agency has staff deployed at the Col. James N. Rowe Building at Rivanna Station in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], [[National Center for Medical Intelligence]] (NCMI) in [[Fort Detrick]], Maryland, [[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]] (MSIC) in [[Huntsville, Alabama]], Russell-Knox Building on [[Marine Corps Base Quantico]], National Center for Credibility Assessment at [[Fort Jackson (South Carolina)|Fort Jackson, South Carolina]], and Defense Intelligence Support Center (DISC) in [[Reston, Virginia]]. 
Since 2012, the [[Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda]] in Maryland serves as the location of the [[National Intelligence University]] as well as a facility for DIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<ref name="Bethesda Intelligence Campus">[http://www.bethesdanow.com/2012/11/13/residents-pleased-with-intelligence-campus-designs/ ''Residents Pleased With Intelligence Campus Designs''], November 13, 2012 (dead link)</ref><ref name="Construction of intelligence campus in Bethesda underway">[http://www.gazette.net/article/20130621/NEWS/130629759/1070/construction-of-intelligence-campus-in-bethesda-underway&template=gazette Construction of intelligence campus in Bethesda underway] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054056/http://www.gazette.net/article/20130621/NEWS/130629759/1070/construction-of-intelligence-campus-in-bethesda-underway%26template%3Dgazette |date=September 21, 2013 }}, June 21, 2013</ref>

Less known than its [[CIA|civilian equivalent]] or its [[NSA|cryptologic counterpart]],<ref>[http://www.afio.com/publications/Burgess_Ronald_DirDIA_Hist_DIA_draft_for_future_AFIO_Intel.pdf Editor's Note : History of the Defense Intelligence Agency] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214207/http://www.afio.com/publications/Burgess_Ronald_DirDIA_Hist_DIA_draft_for_future_AFIO_Intel.pdf |date=October 4, 2013 }}. ''The Intelligencer''. [[Association of Former Intelligence Officers]], 2011.</ref> DIA and its personnel have at times been portrayed in works of [[American popular culture]]. As with other U.S. foreign intelligence organizations, the agency's role has occasionally been confused with those of [[law enforcement]] agencies. DIA's parent organization, the Department of Defense, features in fiction and media much more prominently due to the public's greater awareness of its existence and the general association of military organizations with [[warfare]], rather than spycraft.