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Flynn: DIA Could Potentially Eliminate Whole Programs

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

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The head of the Defense Department’s intelligence efforts said recently the Defense Intelligence Agency could eliminate whole programs as budgets tighten. “We’re going to be looking at every single thing that we do, especially in the times of fiscal austerity that we face,” DIA director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told an audience at the GEOINT 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla. “We are going to have to make decisions, we’re going to eliminate whole programs, potentially.” Flynn said in response…

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