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Fiscal Receipts

Defense Joint Counterintelligence Activities

DCSARDT&EPartial Reconciliation0305146V
What it is
Defense Joint Counterintelligence Activities (0305146V) is a DCSA research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.
What changed
+$0 FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$2.29MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$1.80MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$1.80MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
+$0R-1 TOA · PB2026

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $2.29MFY25: $1.80MFY26: $1.80MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$2.29M
FY25$1.80M
FY26$1.80M

All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view — P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
7 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2020–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
7 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2020–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$0$4.00M$3.82M$4.61M$2.29M
Enacted$0$3.82M$4.62M$2.29M$1.80M
Request$3.82M$4.62M$2.29M$1.80M$1.80M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $4.62M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $4.61M as actual total obligation authority — $12.0K below the request. 4.64.6 = -0.0 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission Defense Joint Counterintelligence Activities

The Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) is a strategic asset to the nation and our allies - continuously ensuring a trusted federal, industrial, and affiliated workforce, and enabling industry's delivery of uncompromised capabilities by leveraging advanced technologies and innovation. DCSA uniquely blends critical technology protection, trusted personnel vetting, counterintelligence, and professional education and certification to advance and preserve America's strategic edge. The programs which fall under the Defense Joint Counterintelligence Activities are the Critical Technology Protection Integration Cell (CTPIC) and Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS). The CTPIC is a whole-of-government engagement effort to deter, detect, and disrupt the unauthorized technology transfer activities of our adversaries. CTPIC serves as the DoD focal point for assessments, coordination, integration, and operational information sharing related to critical technology protection across all phases of research, development, and sustainment. This funding is needed for data access and analysis tools that support prioritization of limited resources and direct focused engagements addressing targeted threat information and mitigation actions. The ARLIS program management office oversees the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) to provide strategic research and development to solve intelligence and security problems. ARLIS overlays human behavior and social science and culture and language expertise with expertise, research, and development in emerging and advanced technologies to solve increasingly technical, but human-centered intelligence and security challenges. RDT&E funding will be used for strategic research efforts that broadly benefit the Defense Security Enterprise (DSE) and develop capability and capacity at ARLIS that work sponsors can build on.

Mission ARLIS and CTPIC

The Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) is a strategic asset to the nation and our allies - continuously ensuring a trusted federal, industrial, and affiliated workforce, and enabling industry's delivery of uncompromised capabilities by leveraging advanced technologies and innovation. DCSA uniquely blends critical technology protection, trusted personnel vetting, counterintelligence, and professional education and certification to advance and preserve America's strategic edge. The programs which fall under the Defense Joint Counterintelligence Activities are the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) and the Critical Technology Protection Integration Cell (CTPIC). Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) program management office oversees the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) to provide strategic research and development to solve intelligence and security problems. ARLIS overlays human behavior and social science and culture and language expertise with expertise, research, and development in emerging and advanced technologies to solve increasingly technical, but human-centered intelligence and security challenges. RDT&E funding will be used for strategic research efforts that broadly benefit the Defense Security Enterprise (DSE) and develop capability and capacity at ARLIS that work sponsors can build on. The Critical Technology Protection Integration Cell (CTPIC) is a whole-of-government engagement effort to deter, detect, and disrupt the unauthorized technology transfer activities of our adversaries. CTPIC serves as the DoD focal point for assessments, coordination, integration, and operational information sharing related to critical technology protection across all phases of research, development, and sustainment. This funding is needed for data access and analysis tools that support prioritization of limited resources and direct focused engagements addressing targeted threat information and mitigation actions.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security and Critical Technology Protection Integration Cell

Research for Intelligence & Security Challenges (RISC) - For the ARLIS summer 2024 internship program, approximately 44 RDT&E funded students were competitively selected to participate from an applicant pool of hundreds and completed 19 projects during the summer program. Of the 44 students, 33 received Secret clearances during the summer program. Using United States Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) contract through DCSA's arrangement with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for research advisor providing expertise in developing, executing, and transitioning applied research to solve DSE and Defense Intelligence Enterprise problems required to improve research requirement development, these efforts increased understanding of existing applicable scientific literature and research and research best practices, and successfully articulated research requirements helping to expedite application of research outcomes. ARLIS FY24 RDT&E funded Human Research Protection Office support for review of projects involving human subjects research provided via support agreement with U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. This support enabled two Human Research Protection Office reviews of two Defense Innovation Unit research projects (independently funded by USD(I&S) dealing with modernizing current polygraph technologies). CTPIC - Lead a program to develop and automated tracking mechanism to identify and deconflict cleared contract facilities working on Department-wide Critical and Emerging Technologies (C&ET) identified in the USD(R&E) Critical Programs and Technologies List (CP&TL).

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDCSAFY24 Actuals$2.29M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDCSAFY25 Enacted$1.80M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDCSAFY25 Total$1.80M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDCSAFY26 Disc. Request$1.80M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDCSAFY26 Total$1.80M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$12.4M$2.29M$1.80M$1.80M$1.80M
000: ARLIS and CTPIC$12.4M$2.29M$1.80M$1.80M$1.80M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

Oversight

Department-level designation (not specific to this program)

GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Defense Joint Counterintelligence Activities — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →