Pay confidential, extraordinary or emergency intelligence expenses
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · Intelligence special expenditure
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense for MIP; Director DIA for specified DIA NIP amounts.
- Executor · routing lead
- MIP program finance officials; DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Confidential/extraordinary/emergency object and certification for each expenditure.
Above five percent of relevant fiscal-year amounts requires notice and 30-day wait; annual reports.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Only amounts made available to specified intelligence programs; no independent funding stream.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Different MIP/NIP authorities and bases must not be mixed.
- Expenditure flexibility is not an independent authority to conduct activities otherwise unlawful.
- §429a is exclusive MIP authority for these objects, rather than §127.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRoutes published
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.
Actor sources
- OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support
- DIA Finance and Acquisition career field: programming, budgeting, allocating, contracting
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.