Pentagon reveals FY26 intelligence budget at $30.9 billion

U.S. Airmen assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, ruck to a training event during exercise Green Goblin 2025, Dec. 8, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas Hansford)

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department revealed today that its Military Intelligence Program (MIP) budget for fiscal 2026 was $30.9 billion.

The figure represents a jump of about $3 billion from FY25, but falls $2.7 billion short of its $33.6 billion request for this year.

In a brief announcement, DoD said the figure was “aligned to the National Defense Strategy,” but declined to release further details as “they remain classified for national security reasons.”

At the same time, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed a National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget of $78.1 billion — nearly $5 billion more than last year but also short of the $81.9 billion the office requested for FY26.

Overseen by ODNI, the NIP funds strategic intelligence gathering for policymakers and covers the CIA, NSA and other broad-strokes intelligence-gathering organizations — including military agencies like the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, according to a 2024 congressional report [ PDF ].

The NIP also funds some of the most closely held operations, known as Sensitive Compartmented Information programs, “throughout the intelligence community,” according to the report.

By contrast, the MIP is overseen by the Pentagon and “funds defense intelligence activities intended to support operational and tactical level intelligence priorities supporting defense operations.” The IC’s 18 members include nine DoD “components,” such as the intelligence arms of each service, and nine non-DoD components, like the CIA, DEA, FBI and the Treasury Department’s intelligence unit.

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However, the congressional report notes that the NIP and MIP do not make up the total of US spending on intelligence and don’t account for some “intelligence-gathering entities that support a department-specific mission [and] use department funds” in the sprawling national security community. Nor does the MIP cover certain intelligence-related platforms, like some drone programs, if intelligence gathering is not the system’s primary mission.

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2025年12月8日，隶属于南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿联合基地第一战斗摄影中队的美国空军人员在“绿魔2025”演习期间负重前往训练场地。（美国空军高级飞行员托马斯·汉斯福德摄）

华盛顿——美国国防部今天公布，其 2026 财年的军事情报计划 (MIP) 预算为 309 亿美元。

该数字比 2025 财年增加了约 30 亿美元，但比今年 336 亿美元的预算申请少了 27 亿美元。

美国国防部在一份简短声明中表示，该数字“符合国家国防战略”，但拒绝透露更多细节，因为“出于国家安全原因，这些细节仍属机密”。

与此同时，国家情报总监办公室公布了国家情报计划 (NIP) 预算为 781 亿美元——比去年增加了近 50 亿美元，但仍低于该办公室为 2026 财年申请的 819 亿美元。

根据 2024 年国会报告 [ PDF ]，国家情报计划 (NIP) 由国家情报总监办公室 (ODNI) 监督，为决策者提供战略情报收集资金，涵盖中央情报局 (CIA)、国家安全局 (NSA) 和其他广泛的情报收集机构，包括国家地理空间情报局等军事机构。

报告称，国家情报计划 (NIP) 还为“整个情报界”一些最严密的行动提供资金，即所谓的敏感信息隔离计划。

相比之下，军事情报规划署（MIP）由五角大楼监管，其“为旨在支持国防行动的作战和战术层面情报优先事项的国防情报活动提供资金”。该机构的18个成员包括9个国防部“组成部分”，例如各军种的情报部门，以及9个非国防部组成部分，例如中央情报局（CIA）、缉毒局（DEA）、联邦调查局（FBI）和财政部的情报部门。

当任务硬件无法升级时，边缘计算就会失败。

这样做的好处是技术植入速度更快，避免被供应商锁定，并为自主性、传感器、武器和任务发展留出更多空间。

然而，国会报告指出，国家情报计划 (NIP) 和军事情报计划 (MIP) 并非美国情报支出总额，也没有涵盖庞大的国家安全体系中一些“支持部门特定任务并使用部门资金的情报收集机构”。此外，如果情报收集并非某些系统的主要任务，那么军事情报计划也不涵盖某些与情报相关的平台，例如一些无人机项目。

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