Budget for secretive military intelligence program hits nine-year spending high | Defense News

Pentagon’s Military Intelligence Program (MIP) received $23.1 billion in appropriated funds for the recently concluded fiscal 2020. This is the highest total for the account in nine years. It comes after finding a rare decrease in year-over-year spending power for the classified account. According to a 2019 Congressional Research Service report, the MIP funds “defense intelligence activities intended to support operational and tactical level intelligence priorities supporting defense operations.”

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