The Defense Department has asked Congress to increase
the maximum number of Defense Intelligence Senior
Executive Service employees by 150 over the next two
years, an increase it said is needed to provide
senior leadership for DoD’s varied and growing
intelligence responsibilities.
DoD said the current authorization of 544 positions
was set in fiscal 2002, out of a total of some 37,500
civilian intelligence slots authorized at that time.
However, the total has since grown to 43,600 and that
number is projected to increase to 50,000 by 2010.
Increasing the number of senior intelligence executives
to 694 will keep the ratio of execs at a relatively
constant 1.4 percent of the pertinent workforce, DoD said.
The Pentagon said that the two-year phase-in is designed
to “ensure the positions are fully justified and well
integrated at the agency level. No new funds are
requested—components that fill the new positions will
absorb the incremental cost in their civilian personnel
accounts.”
