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."
Link:
Full
statement
