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Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Budget Figures
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? →
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $65.2M |
| FY25 | $71.2M |
| FY26 | $60.2M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
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.
| Series | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $50.4M | $57.1M | $43.8M | $55.1M | $56.9M | $60.4M | $58.8M | $60.8M | $62.6M | $65.2M | ||
| Enacted | $56.8M | $43.8M | $54.1M | $56.9M | $57.7M | $57.7M | $61.5M | $63.2M | $65.7M | $71.2M | ||
| Request | $43.8M | $54.1M | $56.9M | $57.7M | $59.4M | $61.5M | $63.2M | $65.7M | $66.2M | $60.2M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $57.7M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reported $60.4M as actual total obligation authority — $2.68M above the request. 60.4 − 57.7 = 2.7 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 Technical Information Center
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is essential to DoD’s research and innovation ecosystem. Capturing, curating, and sharing current and past research results enables researchers to start new efforts with the collected wisdom of past achievement. Progress is advanced by the next group of researchers skipping to the front of the line, knowing which ideas were proven correct and which did not prove out, rather than relearning the same lessons. DTIC’s collections combined with renewed search and discovery tools provide a catalyst for all DoD researchers to deliver new and enhanced capability to our Warfighters in the competition to field the next generation of systems first. Addressing the critical need to maintain and advance the U.S. position in near-peer competition, DTIC’s continuous innovation of its knowledge base and enhanced interfaces enable multiple projects across the DoD enterprise to simultaneously build on past results, increasing the pace of technical maturity and the return on investment of research activities. More than 30 years ago, DTIC launched DefenseLINK, DoD’s first official web site, helping to drive revolutionary changes in information dissemination. Today, DTIC continues to lean forward focusing on rapid advances in AI, ML, cloud computing, along with Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, to support discovery of new inflection points. DTIC is evaluating and assessing tools that will increase the relevance of search results, summarize papers, improve data quality, improve document technology categorization, and follow author citations to discover related past work and key research. DTIC continues to track technology maturation to avail itself of cutting-edge capabilities and enhance the efforts of members of the R&E and S&T communities. With a foundation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enabled tools, DTIC is refining and developing new models to enhance discovery and encourage collaboration across the research and engineering (R&E) enterprise and the Warfighting community, enabling DTIC’s users to interrogate and explore DoD’s S&T knowledge base and discover new understanding from past and current results, advancing the DoD’s return on the nation’s $20 Billion investment in S&T. DTIC will expand and build on these efforts and employ new technological opportunities in FY 2026. Addressing the potential for high compute costs, DTIC will continue building coalitions and working with partners. Successful implementation holds the promise to provide predictive analytics to assist the S&T enterprise in identifying areas, processes, and investments most likely to succeed; illuminating trends, revealing associated areas of science, and identifying resources and opportunities for collaboration; and bringing the capabilities of DoD’s 30+ S&T labs into focus for leadership and decision makers. Successful implementation further promises to complement and enhance DoD’s Information Analysis Centers (IACs) resources providing industry subject matter experts (SME) to answer quick turn questions and facilitating further research through short-term task orders and complex multi-year research and prototyping efforts. Moving away from the idea that we can and must customize every tool to address DoD’s unique mission, SaaS allows DTIC to focus on mission and pick providers at reduced investments, quickly transitioning to the next advancement without leaving behind capital investments in hardware and software licenses; and shifts the burden on vendors to respond to cyber issues. Utilizing a government cloud environment and working with both the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the R&E Joint Reserve Directorate (JRD), DTIC is utilizing AI and ML technologies with development, security, and operations (DevSecOps, or “rapid security focused development”) to integrate and deliver state-of-the-art innovative discovery and submission capabilities. Having completed the modernization steps briefed to USD(R&E) and Congress, the focus for FY 2026 is launching into the next generation of innovation and technical enhancements, which includes continued frequent engagements with the community to validate approach, gain buy in, and understand user needs in content submission and dissemination; ongoing work with the Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) on steps to approve generative AI within our secure environment providing the community with the powerful benefits of these emerging technologies; leveraging computational power to integrate AI and ML to enhance search and discovery; and maintaining unparalleled, end-to-end R&D support through the DoDIAC Multiple Award Contract (IAC MAC), to be optimized through the next contract vehicle competition and look to meet or exceed the FY 2025 research projects started and aligned to DoD research objectives. DTIC holds a knowledge base of nearly 5 million information records and is working with the R&E and S&T communities and vendors to increase its holdings, enhance completeness of the records already in the collection, assure quality of records submitted, and federate to additional information stores and resources. DTIC has expanded its inventory of peer-reviewed journal articles funded by the DoD by linking to additional sources, and is providing access to all users without embargo, to include links to digital data sets. DTIC is engaged with the CDAO to seek methods to improve data quality, focusing on opportunities made possible through enterprise data management and other advances in technology, to include but not limited to AI and ML. This Program Element (PE) provides for DTIC mission operations, which are focused on three core activities: Content, Discovery, and Information Analysis Centers (IAC): a) Content: Includes the S&T repository of DoD and Service records (reports and research data). DTIC acquires, curates, and enriches 80,000 records each year, including tagging each record for alignment to Critical Technology Areas (CTA), DoD Communities of Interest (CoI), and other technology areas to aid discovery. As DTIC’s state-of-the-art electronic document submission pipeline is refined, DTIC continues leading open science activities, sharing content with Advana, conducting gap analysis to identify sources for potential materials, and federating to external collections. Ongoing efforts focus on consolidating input systems and providing bulk upload capabilities and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) while improving data quality and realigning resources from manual processing to ecommerce enabled end user tools. Still, DTIC receives thousands of paper and other media documents each year for preservation and sharing. AI/ML and automation capabilities will speed processing steps such as scanning for Personally Identifiable Information (PII), verifying control markings, generating summaries, and extracting metadata to aid in discovery; however, digitization remains a manual, human process. Further, DTIC continues to work to complete digitization of hundreds of thousands of documents on microfilm. b) Discovery: Offers search and analysis interfaces within a government cloud enterprise keeping costs lean and information secure at the controlled unclassified information (CUI) level and classified level, providing for situational awareness of ongoing research activity across DoD. Consolidating tools simplifies user experience, reduces learning curves, and reduces time on site per topic. Federation with other collections adds context and connections. The time users spend locating data is reduced, lessening the need to be trained in collection types and content. DTIC will continue to enhance community understanding of the S&T research and funding landscape; incorporate SaaS analytic and search technologies and enhance and broaden search results; refine data visualizations to more quickly spot trends and gaps; and provide users key information and a complete picture of activity and progress, shifting the burden of initial analysis from the user by pre-processing and presenting information products that inform and answer questions using data drawn from multiple sources. DTIC continually prioritizes resources on information analysis and interrogation capabilities. c) DTIC's Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers (DoDIAC): support research and development activities across the defense systems, cyber security, information systems, and homeland defense domains to drive innovation and technological development by anticipating and responding to the research needs of the defense and broader community. The DoDIAC Program Management Office (PMO) provides core funding, management, and oversight of IACs, which are chartered by DoD to collect, research, analyze, and disseminate S&T information in specialized fields to DoD researchers and acquisition professionals. In addition, the PMO manages the $48 Billion IAC multiple award contract (MAC), an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) MAC that provides for new research built on prior investments and incorporates the innovations of government, industry, and academia. For the last several years, competition inherent in the IAC model has produced savings of 10-16% under projected costs, while still delivering vetted technical expertise to address DoD’s complex challenges. Providing DoD labs and program managers access to thousands of industry subject matter experts, the IACs performed $3.2 Billion of customer-funded research and analysis in FY 2024 and estimated $4 Billion in FY 2025, supporting more than 700 organizations and more than 900 research and development projects across 273 task orders. Approximately 9,000 current research artifacts from this R&D work are provided to DTIC's technical repository annually and are available to users across the Department. In concert with Congressional and R&E community interest, DTIC’s continuing modernization and innovation efforts are informed by the DoD community to transform distribution, enhance collection, strengthen analytical capabilities on S&T content, and support the management of research data sets. Ongoing modernization activities embrace data-driven concepts and leverage commercial innovations opening the opportunity to draw new insights, recognize relationships, and track activity with a focus on: - Readiness and Availability: The goal remains to be always on and available. Using rapid failover capabilities of the government cloud along with rapid deployment capabilities of DevSecOps, DTIC has increased readiness and availability, including access to on-demand compute and storage for AI and ML implementation. Downtime is reduced and access to burst compute capacity addresses user needs. - Submissions: Having consolidated submission processes in FY 2024, an updated pipeline with a consistent clear user interface is built on ecommerce capabilities. By enhancing and simplifying the submission system, along with the automation of the process, DTIC is removing barriers resulting in a more complete picture (quality and quantity) of the state of knowledge and activity accessed by DTIC search, providing improved situational awareness, increasing understanding, and enabling better decisions. - Search and Analysis: Adopting AI/ML-ready commercial search engine gives DTIC users access to leading commercial engines and user interface features that will be continuously enhanced. Analysis and visualizations remain key methods of conveying information. Analysis and data mining of DoD collections continues to uncover new relationships, trends, and opportunities. This foundation will be extended in FY 2026 with new models, further data enhancement, and integration of emerging technology insertion, including addition of validated AI/ML and Large Language Model (LLM) informed products. - Data Sets: Aided by cooperative engagement with the services and coordination within R&E, data sets continue to mature as a knowledge asset. DTIC is coordinating its approach with the CDAO and is working with the DoD S&T community to populate a research data sets directory. DTIC chairs the Research Data Executive Council (RDEC) and the Research Data Working Group (RDWG); the Services are engaged in governance and strategy for metadata sharing, APIs, and code/tools to exploit data sets. Increased awareness of existing DoD S&T data sets across the community, revalidating results, and sharing data sets and associated code/tools across Services/agencies, will provide a baseline to validate the utility of data set preservation. OTHER MISSION PRIORITIES Other priority and complementary DTIC mission activities are described below: - Bring communities together supporting collaboration between researchers, Warfighters, industry, academia, federal agencies, and allied partners. - Information protection: readily available to trusted users and blocked from unauthorized access. - Develop and manage DoD’s Science Technology Information Policy (STIP). - Maintain compliance with existing public law, regulations, and guidelines. In support of these mission operations, DTIC leases space and critical shared services (e.g., human resources; financial management and accounting; contracting; cloud hosting; common-use IT services and security; communications; and civilian payroll services) from expert and efficient DoD and commercial service-providers. SUMMARY - DTIC actively supports the Secretary’s priorities – revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. - DTIC plans reflect a strong commitment to address Congressional, DoD, and R&E priorities. - Building on progress, DTIC’s focus remains on growing the knowledge base, facilitating sharing, maintaining open repositories, and developing data analytics to advance discovery and understanding as effectively and efficiently as possible. - DTIC is adopting transformational technologies to enhance collection, distribution, analysis, and research data sets to provide decisionmakers and Warfighters insight into the S&T research terrain, speeding discovery and enabling faster implementation.
Mission — Defense Technical Information Center
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is essential to DoD’s research and innovation ecosystem. Capturing, curating, and sharing current and past research results enables researchers to start new efforts with the collected wisdom of past achievement. Progress is advanced by the next group of researchers skipping to the front of the line, knowing which ideas were proven correct and which did not prove out, rather than relearning the same lessons. DTIC’s collections combined with renewed search and discovery tools provide a catalyst for all DoD researchers to deliver new and enhanced capability to our Warfighters in the competition to field the next generation of systems first. Addressing the critical need to maintain and advance the U.S. position in near-peer competition, DTIC’s continuous innovation of its knowledge base and enhanced interfaces enable multiple projects across the DoD enterprise to simultaneously build on past results, increasing the pace of technical maturity and the return on investment of research activities. More than 30 years ago, DTIC launched DefenseLINK, DoD’s first official web site, helping to drive revolutionary changes in information dissemination. Today, DTIC continues to lean forward focusing on rapid advances in AI, ML, cloud computing, along with Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, to support discovery of new inflection points. DTIC is evaluating and assessing tools that will increase the relevance of search results, summarize papers, improve data quality, improve document technology categorization, and follow author citations to discover related past work and key research. DTIC continues to track technology maturation to avail itself of cutting-edge capabilities and enhance the efforts of members of the R&E and S&T communities. With a foundation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enabled tools, DTIC is refining and developing new models to enhance discovery and encourage collaboration across the research and engineering (R&E) enterprise and the Warfighting community, enabling DTIC’s users to interrogate and explore DoD’s S&T knowledge base and discover new understanding from past and current results, advancing the DoD’s return on the nation’s $20 Billion investment in S&T. DTIC will expand and build on these efforts and employ new technological opportunities in FY 2026. Addressing the potential for high compute costs, DTIC will continue building coalitions and working with partners. Successful implementation holds the promise to provide predictive analytics to assist the S&T enterprise in identifying areas, processes, and investments most likely to succeed; illuminating trends, revealing associated areas of science, and identifying resources and opportunities for collaboration; and bringing the capabilities of DoD’s 30+ S&T labs into focus for leadership and decision makers. Successful implementation further promises to complement and enhance DoD’s Information Analysis Centers (IACs) resources providing industry subject matter experts (SME) to answer quick turn questions and facilitating further research through short-term task orders and complex multi-year research and prototyping efforts. Moving away from the idea that we can and must customize every tool to address DoD’s unique mission, SaaS allows DTIC to focus on mission and pick providers at reduced investments, quickly transitioning to the next advancement without leaving behind capital investments in hardware and software licenses; and shifts the burden on vendors to respond to cyber issues. Utilizing a government cloud environment and working with both the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the R&E Joint Reserve Directorate (JRD), DTIC is utilizing AI and ML technologies with development, security, and operations (DevSecOps, or “rapid security focused development”) to integrate and deliver state-of-the-art innovative discovery and submission capabilities. Having completed the modernization steps briefed to USD(R&E) and Congress, the focus for FY 2026 is launching into the next generation of innovation and technical enhancements, which includes continued frequent engagements with the community to validate approach, gain buy in, and understand user needs in content submission and dissemination; ongoing work with the Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) on steps to approve generative AI within our secure environment providing the community with the powerful benefits of these emerging technologies; leveraging computational power to integrate AI and ML to enhance search and discovery; and maintaining unparalleled, end-to-end R&D support through the DoDIAC Multiple Award Contract (IAC MAC), to be optimized through the next contract vehicle competition and look to meet or exceed the FY 2025 research projects started and aligned to DoD research objectives. DTIC holds a knowledge base of nearly 5 million information records and is working with the R&E and S&T communities and vendors to increase its holdings, enhance completeness of the records already in the collection, assure quality of records submitted, and federate to additional information stores and resources. DTIC has expanded its inventory of peer-reviewed journal articles funded by the DoD by linking to additional sources, and is providing access to all users without embargo, to include links to digital data sets. DTIC is engaged with the CDAO to seek methods to improve data quality, focusing on opportunities made possible through enterprise data management and other advances in technology, to include but not limited to AI and ML. This Program Element (PE) provides for DTIC mission operations, which are focused on three core activities: Content, Discovery, and Information Analysis Centers (IAC): a) Content: Includes the S&T repository of DoD and Service records (reports and research data). DTIC acquires, curates, and enriches 80,000 records each year, including tagging each record for alignment to Critical Technology Areas (CTA), DoD Communities of Interest (CoI), and other technology areas to aid discovery. As DTIC’s state-of-the-art electronic document submission pipeline is refined, DTIC continues leading open science activities, sharing content with Advana, conducting gap analysis to identify sources for potential materials, and federating to external collections. Ongoing efforts focus on consolidating input systems and providing bulk upload capabilities and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) while improving data quality and realigning resources from manual processing to ecommerce enabled end user tools. Still, DTIC receives thousands of paper and other media documents each year for preservation and sharing. AI/ML and automation capabilities will speed processing steps such as scanning for Personally Identifiable Information (PII), verifying control markings, generating summaries, and extracting metadata to aid in discovery; however, digitization remains a manual, human process. Further, DTIC continues to work to complete digitization of hundreds of thousands of documents on microfilm. b) Discovery: Offers search and analysis interfaces within a government cloud enterprise keeping costs lean and information secure at the controlled unclassified information (CUI) level and classified level, providing for situational awareness of ongoing research activity across DoD. Consolidating tools simplifies user experience, reduces learning curves, and reduces time on site per topic. Federation with other collections adds context and connections. The time users spend locating data is reduced, lessening the need to be trained in collection types and content. DTIC will continue to enhance community understanding of the S&T research and funding landscape; incorporate SaaS analytic and search technologies and enhance and broaden search results; refine data visualizations to more quickly spot trends and gaps; and provide users key information and a complete picture of activity and progress, shifting the burden of initial analysis from the user by pre-processing and presenting information products that inform and answer questions using data drawn from multiple sources. DTIC continually prioritizes resources on information analysis and interrogation capabilities. c) DTIC's Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers (DoDIAC): support research and development activities across the defense systems, cyber security, information systems, and homeland defense domains to drive innovation and technological development by anticipating and responding to the research needs of the defense and broader community. The DoDIAC Program Management Office (PMO) provides core funding, management, and oversight of IACs, which are chartered by DoD to collect, research, analyze, and disseminate S&T information in specialized fields to DoD researchers and acquisition professionals. In addition, the PMO manages the $48 Billion IAC multiple award contract (MAC), an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) MAC that provides for new research built on prior investments and incorporates the innovations of government, industry, and academia. For the last several years, competition inherent in the IAC model has produced savings of 10-16% under projected costs, while still delivering vetted technical expertise to address DoD’s complex challenges. Providing DoD labs and program managers access to thousands of industry subject matter experts, the IACs performed $3.2 Billion of customer-funded research and analysis in FY 2024 and estimated $4 Billion in FY 2025, supporting more than 700 organizations and more than 900 research and development projects across 273 task orders. Approximately 9,000 current research artifacts from this R&D work are provided to DTIC's technical repository annually and are available to users across the Department. In concert with Congressional and R&E community interest, DTIC’s continuing modernization and innovation efforts are informed by the DoD community to transform distribution, enhance collection, strengthen analytical capabilities on S&T content, and support the management of research data sets. Ongoing modernization activities embrace data-driven concepts and leverage commercial innovations opening the opportunity to draw new insights, recognize relationships, and track activity with a focus on: - Readiness and Availability: The goal remains to be always on and available. Using rapid failover capabilities of the government cloud along with rapid deployment capabilities of DevSecOps, DTIC has increased readiness and availability, including access to on-demand compute and storage for AI and ML implementation. Downtime is reduced and access to burst compute capacity addresses user needs. - Submissions: Having consolidated submission processes in FY 2024, an updated pipeline with a consistent clear user interface is built on ecommerce capabilities. By enhancing and simplifying the submission system, along with the automation of the process, DTIC is removing barriers resulting in a more complete picture (quality and quantity) of the state of knowledge and activity accessed by DTIC search, providing improved situational awareness, increasing understanding, and enabling better decisions. - Search and Analysis: Adopting AI/ML-ready commercial search engine gives DTIC users access to leading commercial engines and user interface features that will be continuously enhanced. Analysis and visualizations remain key methods of conveying information. Analysis and data mining of DoD collections continues to uncover new relationships, trends, and opportunities. This foundation will be extended in FY 2026 with new models, further data enhancement, and integration of emerging technology insertion, including addition of validated AI/ML and Large Language Model (LLM) informed products. - Data Sets: Aided by cooperative engagement with the services and coordination within R&E, data sets continue to mature as a knowledge asset. DTIC is coordinating its approach with the CDAO and is working with the DoD S&T community to populate a research data sets directory. DTIC chairs the Research Data Executive Council (RDEC) and the Research Data Working Group (RDWG); the Services are engaged in governance and strategy for metadata sharing, APIs, and code/tools to exploit data sets. Increased awareness of existing DoD S&T data sets across the community, revalidating results, and sharing data sets and associated code/tools across Services/agencies, will provide a baseline to validate the utility of data set preservation. OTHER MISSION PRIORITIES Other priority and complementary DTIC mission activities are described below: - Bring communities together supporting collaboration between researchers, Warfighters, industry, academia, federal agencies, and allied partners. - Information protection: readily available to trusted users and blocked from unauthorized access. - Develop and manage DoD’s Science Technology Information Policy (STIP). - Maintain compliance with existing public law, regulations, and guidelines. In support of these mission operations, DTIC leases space and critical shared services (e.g., human resources; financial management and accounting; contracting; cloud hosting; common-use IT services and security; communications; and civilian payroll services) from expert and efficient DoD and commercial service-providers. SUMMARY - DTIC actively supports the Secretary’s priorities – revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. - DTIC plans reflect a strong commitment to address Congressional, DoD, and R&E priorities. - Building on progress, DTIC’s focus remains on growing the knowledge base, facilitating sharing, maintaining open repositories, and developing data analytics to advance discovery and understanding as effectively and efficiently as possible. - DTIC is adopting transformational technologies to enhance collection, distribution, analysis, and research data sets to provide decisionmakers and Warfighters insight into the S&T research terrain, speeding discovery and enabling faster implementation.
Mission — Information Analysis Centers
The Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers (DoDIAC), established under DoD Instruction 3200.14, serve as a vital resource in providing timely, relevant information directly to users when and where it is needed. The IACs serve as a bridge between the Warfighter and the Acquisition/Research community, providing essential technical analysis and data support to a diverse customer base, to include the Combatant Commands (CCMD), the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Agencies, and the Military Services. DoDIAC actively partners and collaborates with Defense Research and Engineering (R&E) focus groups and communities of interest in areas of specialized fields or specific technologies. The three IACs are staffed with scientists, engineers, information specialists, and each have a strong network of subject matter experts to provide research and analysis to customers with diverse, complex, and challenging requirements. The DoDIAC supports development and maintenance of comprehensive knowledge bases, including historical, technical, scientific, and other data collected throughout the world and pertinent to DoD S&T thrust areas and Critical Technology Areas (CTA), providing technology developers, Warfighters, program managers, and other stakeholders access to tools, research, testing, evaluation, and training methods that can best contribute to fulfilling their mission. The DoDIAC currently partners with approximately 700 unique organizations to identify and fill DoD’s technological gaps by (1) creating missing information through analysis and/or synthesis of available ongoing research and Scientific and Technical Information (STI), or (2) utilizing available research and STI to support applied and basic research programs, or (3) performing primary research directly or jointly with other agencies where STI sharing is a requirement. The DoDIAC leverages existing bodies of scientific knowledge within DTIC’s repository and other repositories enabling innovative reuse. In FY 2024, the DoDIAC produced 4,900 Technical Inquiries and, 183 technical products and publications, 42 SME training events (webinars or classroom) to capitalize on available STI and maximize their budget by locating and analyzing data, information, and tools that were used in the development of similar solutions throughout the world. Both the research gaps and the potential partnership opportunities are further synthesized into information and produced as a useful input when engineering new requirements for a Research and Development (R&D) project owner’s need. Through its research support services and innovative contracting mechanisms, the DoDIAC fosters a design of collaborative and responsible innovation to create building blocks of new research, creating a loop of continuous capability development while adding over 9,000 new research documents to the DTIC repository yearly. In FY 2025, DoDIAC onboarded 65 new DoD organizations to its existing base of over 700 active organizations while creating and facilitating reuse of researching findings within the 14 Critical Technology Areas, (CTA) including microelectronics, hypersonic, directed energy, cyber, autonomy, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). DoDIAC operations, in concert with National Defense Strategy objectives, directly support the warfighter, and play an ongoing and critical role in solving key CCMD operational issues such as cyber security, unmanned aerial vehicle visual/audible signature reduction, and improvements to the ballistic resistance of body armor. While the appropriated budget has not increased since 2004, the DoDIAC has continued to advance its capabilities to meet the evolving needs of the DoD S&T community, and the demand for its services has grown exponentially, exceeding $3.7 Billion in joint R&D projects in FY 2024. The IAC Program Management Office at DTIC performs contract acquisition, program management, and operational support for IAC contract operations and the technical information that is generated as a result of research and studies. In a time of shrinking budgets and increasing responsibility. The DoDIAC answers technical inquiries; conducts basic and applied research; develops, tests, and implements new technologies and approaches; analyzes and synthesizes existing data and information; facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing, evaluates the current state-of-the-art, identifies knowledge gaps, and implements solutions, and provides knowledge products to enhance researcher understanding. The DoDIAC services are funded in part through partnerships with the Defense R&E community and the annual collection of customer reimbursements for their share of direct costs, in accordance with the IAC Reimbursable Review Board (IRRB) recommendations. This represents the maximum cost-sharing with IAC customers allowable, per guidance from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Office of General Counsel. Annual IAC efforts and accomplishments are dependent on the level of participation and collaboration by the R&E community at large.
Justification
No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DTIC | FY24 Actuals | $65.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DTIC | FY25 Enacted | $71.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DTIC | FY25 Total | $71.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DTIC | FY26 Disc. Request | $60.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DTIC | FY26 Total | $60.2M |
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.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $562.4M | $65.2M | $71.2M | $60.2M | $60.2M |
| 001: Defense Technical Information Center | $507.9M | $60.2M | $66.2M | $55.2M | $55.2M |
| 002: Information Analysis Centers | $54.5M | $5.02M | $5.02M | $5.02M | $5.02M |
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 Technical Information Center (DTIC) — 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? →