US allocates $14.6 billion for military intelligence

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said its military intelligence budget for the fiscal 2014 is $14.6 billion.

This is for the second year in succession that the Pentagon has released the amount of military intelligence budget but has refrained from going into the details.

The total Military Intelligence Program ( MIP) has requested for $14.6 billion in 2014 fiscal year, it said yesterday.

"The department determined that releasing this figure does not jeopardize any classified activities within the MIP," said Department of Defence.

"No other figures of MIP budget or program details will be released, as they remain classified for national security reasons," it said, adding the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding request for the MIP in 2014 will be submitted at a later date.

Last year, $21.5 billion were allocated for both MIP and OCO.