Skip to main content (Press Enter).
DIA offers its employees both civilian and military a variety of career benefits that include that ability to participate in an alternate work schedule program. DIA also offers the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Program (FEGLI) to employees, the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is the Retirement plan for those entering Federal service under a permanent appointment.
DIA offers its employees both civilian and military to participate in the alternate work schedule program. Two types of work schedules are available which consist of the Compressed work schedule and the Flexible work schedule. DIA recognizes two basic compress work schedules:
The Flexible work schedule consists of four types:
Flexitour: five, 8-hour workday each week; may preselect starting and stopping times
Variable day schedule: 40-hour week; may vary daily arrival and departure times and the length of workday and earn credit hours
Variable week schedule: 80 hour biweekly pay period; may vary daily arrival and departure times, length of workday, or the workweek and earn credit hours.
DIA business hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Annual Leave: Annual leave provides DIA civilian employees with paid time off, a vacation for rest and relaxation and for taking care of personal business or emergencies. Annual leave is earned every two weeks determined by the length of government service (including applicable military service) as shown below:
All employees may accrue a maximum of 240 hours (30 work days) of annual leave which may be carried over from leave year to leave year. Annual leave in excess of 240 hours must be used during the current leave year.
Sick Leave: Sick leave may be used when an employee is unable to work due to personal illness or injury; pregnancy and childbirth or for personal medical, dental or optical examination and treatment.
Family Friendly: Family Friendly leave allows an employees to take up to 13 days of sick leave per year to provide care to a family member suffering from an injury or illness; pregnancy or childbirth, or for family member requiring medical, dental, or optical examination or treatment, or to attend the funeral of a family member.
Family Medical: Under the Family Medical and Leave Act, an employee is entitled to use a total of 12 administrative work weeks of sick leave or combination of annual leave, sick leave and leave without pay for the purpose of caring for a family member suffering from a serious health condition.
Voluntary Leave Transfer Program: The voluntary leave transfer program allows Federal employees to donate annual leave to assist other Federal employees who have personal or family medical emergency and who have exhausted their own available paid leave.
Bone Marrow/organ Donation Leave: Employees are entitled to 7 days of paid leave in a calendar year to serve as bone marrow donor and up to 30 days of paid leave as an organ donor.
Military Leave: Military leave is granted to civilian employees who are absent from duty without loss of pay or charge to annual leave to perform active or inactive duty for training as a member of one of the following services:
Court Leave: Court leave is leave of absence from duty without loss of pay or charge to annual leave to perform one of the following:
Government Holidays: The following holidays are observed by the Federal Government:
The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is available to employees and their families. The FEHB offers the following benefits:
Employees must enroll in FEHB within 60 days of employment or during the open season that is conducted each year in November in which employees can enroll, change plans, etc. There are life events, (marriage or birth of child) which permit enrollment or changes in enrollment outside of the open season.
The Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Program (FEGLI) is also available to employees and offers low cost life insurance with the convenience of payroll deductions.
In addition to the Basic life insurance, employees can purchase the following coverage:
The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is the Retirement plan for those entering Federal service under a permanent appointment. FERS benefits are portable and allow employees to take an active role in securing their future.
FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan comprise of the following components:
The Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) is the human capital management system for the Department of Defense Intelligence Community (IC), overseen by the Under Secretary of Defense for Inteligence (USD(I)). DCIPS emphasizes a performance culture by recognizing employee accomplishments, developing individuals, and rewarding performance.
DCIPS Performance Management Key Activities at DIA:
DCIPS also employs a common Occupational Structure across the Defense IC, and the Agency has internal resources to assist employees manage their careers.
For more information on DCIPS please visit dcips.dtic.mil.
The following links provide quick acccess to official websites for Federal Employee benefit programs.