Tactical and Technical Intelligence Subcommittee

Under the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Tactical and Technical Intelligence Subcommittee oversees:

• National Reconnaissance Program of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
• National Geospatial Intelligence Program of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
• Consolidated Cryptologic Program of the National Security Agency (NSA)
• Technical collection activities associated with the Central Intelligence Agency and with U.S. Department of Defense activities funded through the Military Intelligence Program (MIP)

The MIP consists of programs, projects, or activities that support the Secretary of Defense’s intelligence, counterintelligence, and related intelligence responsibilities. This includes those intelligence and counterintelligence programs, projects, or activities that provide capabilities to meet warfighters’ operational and tactical requirements more effectively. The term excludes capabilities associated with a weapons system whose primary mission is not intelligence.

The term "MIP" replaces the earlier terms "Joint Military Intelligence Program (JMIP)" and "Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities (TIARA)". JMIP included Defense-wide programs not peculiar to the needs of a specific service, while TIARA covered service-specific needs. Under the MIP are the Office of the Secretary of Defense, service departments, the United States Special Operations Command, and, in their roles of supporting tactical operations, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); NGA; NRO and the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS).