COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

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Do What Matters

DIA’s Unique Role

DIA is committed to excellence in defense

of the Nation. Leaders at all levels of the 

military and U.S. Government rely on DIA

for cutting-edge analysis, targeted 

collection and advanced technological 

expertise to support global military 

operations. We provide defense 

intelligence on foreign militaries and 

operating environments that delivers 

decision advantage to prevent and 

decisively win wars. Excellence begins 

with the support that each member of 

DIA and the greater Defense Intelligence 

Enterprise receives every day to complete 

the mission. With a global workforce of 

over 16,500 employees, DIA requires a 

robust, agile and skilled mission support 

team to provide administrative, physical 

and technical support while operating in 

complex threat environments.

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Are you ready for a career in 

Counterintelligence?

From technical operations to insider threat investigations, 

officers in the Counterintelligence Career Field dedicate 

their lives to safeguarding the Nation from foreign 

adversarial threats. As an officer in this career field, you 

will detect, exploit and neutralize the damaging efforts 

foreign entities wield against our Nation. In an everchanging, dynamic global threat environment, we need 

Counterintelligence officers who develop and execute 

strategies that defeat our adversaries’ attempts to harm 

us. We need your logic, expertise and ingenuity to protect 

the Nation from subversive activities like sabotage and 

espionage. Think this could be you? 

Explore how your unique contributions can make a 

national impact as a Counterintelligence officer in one of 

our two specialty areas.

Counterintelligence Specialties

Counterintelligence Agent

Officers in this specialty are highly trained in core counterintelligence functions — investigations, 

collections, operations and functional services. You will use offensive and defensive tradecraft 

tactics to protect the Nation. Serve on our team as an officer specializing in one of these 

functional areas:

• Community Coordination.

• Counterespionage.

• Investigative Activities.

• Operational Risk Management.

• Strategy and Analysis.

• Technical/Cyber Capabilities.

Cover Support

Be a part of the team that provides support to the Department of Defense’s most sensitive 

personnel, assets and operations. Officers in this specialty are coveted for their special operations, 

collection, analysis and cyber expertise. You will exercise your ability to work through ambiguous 

situations and employ your natural motivation to approach requirements with creativity and 

innovation. Serve on our team as an officer specializing in one of these functional areas:

• Acquisitions.

• Biometric Threat Analysis.

• Commercial Support.

• Identity Protection.

• Program Management.

ABOVE: Officers provide annual training on 

counterintelligence awareness and reporting to 

DIA’s global workforce.
For more information on a career at DIA, visit our website:

www.dia.mil/careers

DIA&YOU

Your Career. Our Commitment.

DIA Career Fields

and Specialties

Analysis

• All-Source Analysis

• Scientific & Technical Intelligence

Counterintelligence

• Counterintelligence Agent

• Cover Support

Finance & Acquisition

• Acquisition Program 

Management

• Budget

• Contracting &

Procurement Analysis

• Finance & Accounting

• Requirements Manager & 

Contracting Officer Representative

Human Intelligence

• Clandestine Collection

• Operations Support

• Overt Collection

Human Services

• Behavioral Sciences

• Equal Employment

• Human Resources

• Training & Education

Information Technology

• Cyber Security

• IT Data Specialist

• IT Engineer

• IT Mission Support

• IT Specialist

Mission Management

• Collection Management

• Intelligence Operations 

Management

• International Affairs

• Joint Capability Development

& Intelligence Support to 

Acquisition

• Joint Intelligence Planning

• Joint Target Intelligence

• Policy & Strategy

Office Management

& Infrastructure

• Communications, 

Operations & Media

• Facilities

• Logistics

• Program Analysis & Management

• Staff Operations

Science & Technology

• Open-Source Intelligence

• Research & Development

• Technical Collection

• Technical Exploitation

• Technical Operations

Security

• Credibility Assessment

• Criminal Investigator

• Global Security

• Insider Threat

• Police

• Security Specialist

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