" In July 2002, DIA assessed " It is plausible al-Qa ' ida attempted to obtain CB assistance from Iraq and Ibn al-Shaykh is sufficiently senior to have access to such sensitive information.

The Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) is a member of the Intelligence Community of the United States, and is the central producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16, 500 U. S. military and civilian employees worldwide.

The Defense Intelligence Community is headed by the DIA, through its Director ( who chairs the Military Intelligence Board ), and it coordinates the activities of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force intelligence components.

DIA is headquartered at the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center ( DIAC ) on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D. C., with major operational activities at the Pentagon, at each Unified Combatant Command, United States Defense Attache Offices worldwide, the National Center for Medical Intelligence ( NCMI ) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center ( MSIC ) in Huntsville, Alabama and is in the process of building the new Defense Intelligence Support Center ( DISC ) in Reston, Virginia.

DIA is a member of the United States Intelligence Community, reporting to the Director of National Intelligence.

The DIA is considered to be a member of the Intelligence Community.

The director of the DIA is the main adviser to the United States Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters related to military intelligence.

The DIA is responsible for assessing the current and projected national security threats to the United States as well as presenting these assessments to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

DIA is led by a Director, typically a three-star military officer.

DIA is organized into these primary operational directorates and centers:

DIA is the central agency for MASINT collection within the United States Intelligence Community.

Finally on 1 April 1994, in connection with the joining of Danmarks Ingeniørakademi ( DIA ) and DTH, the Danish name was changed to Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, in order to include the word ' University ', thus giving rise to the acronym DTU by which the university is commonly known today.

( For example, a sketch of a hole that is clearly not round still accurately defines the part as having a true round hole, as long as the label says " 10mm DIA ", because the " DIA " implicitly but objectively tells the user that the skewed drawn circle is a symbol representing a perfect circle.

Denver International Airport, often referred to as DIA, is an airport in Denver, Colorado.

The National Reconnaissance Office ( NRO ), located in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the 16 U. S. intelligence agencies and considered, along with the CIA, NSA, DIA and NGA, to be one of the " big five " U. S. Intelligence agencies.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity ( VIPS ) is a group of current and former officials of the United States Intelligence Community, including some from the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), the U. S. State Department's Intelligence Bureau, and the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ).

* 14 February: Fairfax Media's Dominion Post reports that Telecom is under investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs ' ( DIA ) anti-spam unit, following complaints about text messages sent to customers.

It is also known as an ethernet leased line, DIA line, data circuit or private circuit.

Arms control monitoring also increased the demand for intelligence support from DIA.

DIA was also involved with the intelligence build-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was a subject in the Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq.

DIA also runs the National Intelligence University and houses the John T. Hughes Library in the DIAC.

Casey also turned to DIA for a competing analysis, that was ultimately reconciled with the CIA analysts to produce the estimate circulated within the government as " The Soviet Role in Revolutionary Violence.

Conspiracists have also seen unusual markings in the terminals in DIA and have recorded them as templar markings.

" Blaskiewicz found that contrary to claims from conspiracy theorists that DIA will not discuss these stories with the public, they also give tours of the airport.

The massacre of Brabant has also been linked to a conspiracy among the Belgian " stay-behind " network SDRA8 ( Gladio ) — operating as a secret branch of the Belgian military service — the Belgian Gendarmerie SDRA6 and the US secret service Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ).

The album also features a collaboration with The Cure lead singer Robert Smith on a cover of the Bee Gees ' song " To Love Somebody ", while " DIA " features electronic drums played by Corgan's longtime collaborator, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, as well as the violin and backing voice of Emilie Autumn.

The DIA report also cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy: " Saddam ’ s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements.

: The initial DocEx review focused on searching for WMD related documents, but the DIA also examined the documents for material related to Iraq's link to terrorism.

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance ( DIA ), also known as the Ithaca Downtown Business Improvement District, is a State of New York chartered not-for-profit organization charged with the revitalization, development, promotion and management of downtown Ithaca.

DIA and JFCOM are also sponsoring BlueSpace's C2 technology in Empire Challenge 2010, a ' live fly ' technology demonstrator based at Fort Huachuca.

Det 5 conducts all USAF C-12 flight evaluations, and also assists HQ DIA / Air Operations in world-wide flight evaluations upon request.

A cryptanalyst working for the DIA, Fairfax was responsible for foiling two plans in the novel's events, involving a vaccine against a highly-lethal biological weapon known as the Sinovirus.

Fairfax managed to crack a supposedly unbreakable code known as PGP during his time at the DIA, and lives under the maxim of ' no code is unbreakable.

In October 2003, according to his later statement to Congress, Shaffer told the 9 / 11 Commission staff director, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow, that in 2000 a DIA data-mining program known as Able Danger had uncovered two of the three terrorist cells eventually implicated in the September 11 attacks.

The 2006 Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq stated that " Although DIA coordinated on CIA's Iraqi Support for Terrorism paper, DIA analysis preceding that assessment was more skeptical of the al-Libi reporting.

After World War II until the creation of DIA, the three Military Departments collected, produced and distributed their intelligence for individual use.

Two years later, on 1 July 1965, DIA accepted responsibility for the Defense Attaché System-the last function the Services transferred to DIA.

Specifically, the Secretary assigned staff supervisory responsibility over DIA in the resource area to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, while giving the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs supervisory responsibility regarding policy matters.

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger presented DIA with the Agency's first Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 1986 for outstanding intelligence support over the previous year during a series of crises — the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the cruise ship Achille Lauro, unrest in the Philippines, and counter-terrorist operations against Libya.

Davis transferred to DIA in 1984 where he coordinated the authorizing documents and budget for the new organization, and directed the operations of the program for the next six years.

The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center ( AFMIC ), and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center ( MSIC ), associated with the Army for over 20 and 50 years respectively, became part of DIA in January 1992.

The DIA still actively maintains its responsibility for conventional strategic and operational military intelligence.

Directorate for Analysis ( DI ): Analyzes and disseminates finalized intelligence products for the DIA from all sources as well as from partner Intelligence Community agencies.

A June 1966 Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) estimate credited the North Vietnamese with of truckable roads within the corridor, at least of which were good enough for year-round use.

" Thus, Washington D. C .- area's three airports all have radically different codes: IAD for Washington-Dulles ( formerly DIA ), DCA for Reagan National ( District of Columbia Airport ), and BWI for Baltimore ( Baltimore-Washington International ).

The Reagan administration opposed the bill, calling it premature, and eventually prevented it from taking effect, partly due to a mistaken DIA assessment which blamed Iran for the attack.