Editing Defense Intelligence Agency (section)

== Budget and personnel ==
DIA's budget and exact personnel numbers are [[classified information|classified]]. Classified Information is not willingly revealed to the public or with anyone that does not have a [[need-to-know]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Need-To-Know |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJXePUpOutE | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211103/hJXePUpOutE| archive-date=2021-11-03 | url-status=live|website=youtube.com | date=April 30, 2009 |publisher=DoD}}{{cbignore}}</ref> verified. The agency does reveal that currently, it has approximately 17,000 employees, two-thirds of whom are civilians<ref name="diaalumni.org" /> and approximately 50% of whom work at more than 141 overseas locations.<ref name="youtube.com" /> In 1994, it was revealed that DIA requested approximately $4 billion in funding for the period of 1996–2001 ($6.3 billion inflation adjusted), averaging $666 million per year ($1.05 billion inflation adjusted).<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-29-mn-32577-story.html "Report Reveals Spy Agencies' Budget Plans"], [[Associated Press]] via the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', August 29, 1994</ref> The agency, however, has nearly doubled in size since then and also assumed additional responsibilities from various intelligence elements from across the Department of Defense, CIA and wider intelligence community. In 2006, at the height of [[Donald Rumsfeld]]'s push to further expand the scope of military intelligence beyond tactical considerations, DIA was estimated to receive up to $3 billion annually.<ref>McManus, Doyle; Spiegel, Peter. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130618021912/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/06/nation/na-ciaassess6/2 "Spy Czar, Rumsfeld in a Turf War"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', May 6, 2006</ref>

According to classified documents leaked by [[Edward Snowden]] and published by ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 2013, the [[United States intelligence budget#National Intelligence Program|National Intelligence Program]] (NIP) component of the [[United States intelligence budget|overall US intelligence budget]] contained approximately $4.4 billion/year for the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP), which is managed by DIA, even as it is not exclusively for the agency's use.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html |date=August 29, 2013 |access-date=August 29, 2013 |first=Barton |last=Gellman |author2=Greg Miller |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in 'black budget' summary}}</ref> The numbers exclude the Military Intelligence Component (MIP) of the overall US intelligence budget, which by itself has averaged more than $20 billion per year in the past decade.