Defense Intelligence Agency

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Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the primary intelligence agency for the UCAS Department of Defense, and a member of the UCAS Intelligence Community. It conducts all Defense Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection, as well it provides military intelligence analysis to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense. It is a joint service agency (meaning it is staffed by personnel from all the branches of the military) commanded by a three-star lieutenant general or vice admiral. The Director of the DIA is also the principal intelligence advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense. DIA is the only intelligence agency actually headquartered within Washington, DC, at Bolling Air Force Base.

It is in many ways the DoD's version of the CIA, with its own analytic and operational units. DIA works in collaboration with the collection activities of the other military intelligence agencies such as NSA and the branch intelligence units (e.g., Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence), and it runs the Defense Attaché Program, which trains and places military officers (who may or may not be involved in intelligence-gathering) in UCAS embassies abroad as liaisons to the host country's military.

DIA also engages in more clandestine and even covert intelligence operations, as well as providing intelligence support for military operations. One such real life example is the Strategic Support Branch, which deploys teams of linguists, translators and interrogators to enhance intelligence collection and special operations. It is almost certain to exist in some form during the 2060s and 2070s.

DIA and CIA have historically been at odds with each other, and continue to be so well into the 2060s. Both agencies engage in the collection of Human Intelligence at the strategic level, which had resulted in conflicts over the running of agents and compromising of operations between the civilian and military agencies.

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