DIA

At Booz Allen Hamilton’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, the firm’s vice presidents specializing in intelligence oversee two types of contract: offer two types of services: training executives and supplying critical systems to the agencies. Virtually all of the latter call on its services: NSA, DIA, CIA, FBI, NRO, and NGA (see graph). Even IARPA, the newly- established R&D unit of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), relies of the firm’s technology assessments.

In the wake of the intelligence bungles that propelled the United States into the Iraq war, it's no secret that the nation's spies have been working to improve the quality of their analysis. Now the top U.S. military intelligence agency has come up with a new tool for teaching recruits critical thinking skills: video games.

Over the last decade, U.S intelligence funding of academic research has taken on cavalier, even brazen qualities. This article reveals over 3,000 National Security Agency and over 100 Defense Intelligence Agency funded papers and draws attention to recent unreported revelations of CIA funding for torture research.

Late July's stunner came in the form of a headline-snatching proposal from the Defense Intelligence Agency to greatly enlarge the hiring of private contractors for core intelligence tasks. Thus we would be "outsourcing" larger percentages of America's intelligence to God only knows whom, what or why!

The DIA announced calmly that it was preparing to pay $1 billion for men and women – who would not, remember, be under the direct control of the American government – to do much of our most sensitive intelligence work.

The USA is generally known to have a spy network consisting of 16 main agencies, however there are all sorts of companies getting involved in the turning of the intelligence gears. Here is an overview of the main 16 Intelligence Agencies operating for the United States of America.