The DIA was founded in 1958. The organizational structure of the DoD and U.S. foreign intelligence took a new shape with the creation of the DIA. It was Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who created the concept of the DIA in 1961. The DIA collects human-source intelligence, analyzes technical information, distributes information/reports to intelligence agencies, provides advice and support to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with foreign military intelligence and provides military intelligence to combatant commands as operational functions. A DIA director is supposed to be a three-star military general, and today the DIA is believed to have employed at least 7,500 staff worldwide. The DIA is a defense intelligence agency that prevents strategic surprises and provides decision-making advantage to warfighters, defense planners and policymakers. This article will attempt to evaluate the role of the DIA in US national security under current conditions of massive budget deficits and increased congressional oversight, as well as the intelligence capabilities of regional combatant commanders and individual services such as the CIA and NSA. According to one source, after September 11 In 2001, the intelligence budget grew the most. But now we find ourselves in another round of budget cuts again. President Obama is reported to have proposed a $52.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2013 to fund the National Intelligence Program. This budget amount is said to be less than the $55 billion requested last year. The unstable budget is believed to hamper US intelligence missions. According to the same source, as budget pressure has increased, redundancy in US intelligence has also increased. With budget deficits, the DIA budget did not authorize the expansion of its payroll. It says DI...... half of the document ......igence-agencies-what-is-the-difference-between-the-dia-nsa-cia-and-fbi/ (accessed January 7, 2014). Paolo, Ron. “Congressional Oversight.” Global Intelligence News. December 11, 2012, http://globalintelnews.wordpress.com/tag/congressional-oversight/ (accessed January 7, 2014) Pincus, Walter, and Greg Miller. “Federal Budget 2013: Secret Services Would Receive 4.4% Less.” WP Politics, February 13, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/federal-budget-2013-intelligence-agencies-would-get-44-percent-less/2012/02/13/ gIQAEvFDBR_blog .html (accessed January 7, 2014) Nedzi (D-Mich.), Luclen N. “Oversight or Overlook: Congress and the US Intelligence Agency". Congressman speaks at CIA senior seminar, November 14, 1979, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol18no2/pdf/v18i2a02p.pdf (accessed in January 7, 2014).