Big Money: The US Intelligence Budget
The US intelligence budget has two major components: the National Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program. The National Intelligence Program includes all programs, projects, and activities of the intelligence community as well as any other intelligence community programs designated jointly by the DNI and the head of department or agency, or the DNI and the President. The MIP is devoted to intelligence activity conducted by the military departments and agencies in the Department of Defense that support tactical US military operations. In addition, other departments and agencies may engage in certain activities related to intelligence for their own mission needs that are not captured here. icontherecord
The total amounts spent from 2007 to 2014 are as follows:
- 2007 - $63 Billion,
- 2008 – $70.4 Billion,
- 2009 - $76.2 Billion,
- 2010 - $80.1Billion,
- 2011 - $78.6 Billion,
- 2012 - $75.4 Billion,
- 2013 - $67.6 Billion
- 2014 - $67.9 Billion
The US National Intelligence Program budget request was first publicly disclosed in February 2011 as a requirement by Congress of the Intelligence Authorisation Act of 2010. The Military Intelligence Program budget request was first released in 2012. For a perspectve, the combined US intelligence budget in 2014 equates to the entire UK Defence budget of the same year when the UK was ranked 5 in a table of national military expenditures.
