The FBI in 2006: Director Testifies on Proposed Budget
The FBI in 2006
Director Mueller Testifies on Our Proposed FY 06 Budget
03/08/05
What's our total budget request for FY 2006? Where will we open new overseas offices in the coming year? How many intelligence/law enforcement personnel do we now train daily at the FBI Academy? What technological improvements have we made recently?
You'll find the answers—and a great deal more information—in Director Mueller's 3/8 testimony before the House Appropriations Committee.
We encourage you to read it—not just because it lays out the specifics of our FY 2006 budget request, but because it paints a picture of an organization that's in the midst of what the Director calls a "rapid reorganization and expansion."
How so? A few specifics from the Director's testimony:
- Getting smart about intelligence. Our new Directorate of Intelligence—a "service within a service"—is integrating intelligence across all FBI programs and operations. Today, we're producing and sharing more intelligence more quickly than ever before. From 2003 to 2004, for example, we tripled the number of our intelligence assessments.
- Dial "T" for Counterterrorism. The Terrorist Screening Center and Terrorist Explosives Device Analytical Center —both stood up in December 2003—provide one-stop-shopping for our partners to call on for vital terrorist-related information and intelligence.
- New skills for a new age. So far this year, we've hired 476 intelligence analysts...and the applications keep pouring in (we received more than 2,200 for just one posting last month). Our cadre of language specialists and contract linguists—now more than 1,300 strong—is growing steadily as well.
- Going, going, gone global. Today, we've got 51 Legal Attaches worldwide (up from 44 in 2003), and we'll open new offices in Afghanistan, Bulgaria, and Bosnia by year's end.
- A few acronyms go a long way. SCION, SIPRNET, FAMS, and FIDS are new technologies that are boosting our ability to share sensitive information and intelligence.
In the words of the Director: "[T]he FBI continues a period of historical change ... We have reorganized from an agency whose primary focus was law enforcement into an integral member of the Intelligence Community."