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Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)

For contractor protection, route through Industrial Security and relevant field support for facility security, FOCI mitigation and protected-information risk. Personnel Security handles workforce vetting; CI/Insider Threat supports those missions and coordinates external partners; Security Training builds practitioner capability.

Personnel vetting and industrial-security agency, including contractor security, foreign ownership/control/influence mitigation and insider-threat support. Its public budget distinguishes appropriated operations from reimbursable vetting services.

Budget & program scale

Public funding documented

FY2027: $1.036 billion non-cyber O&M request; separate $1.803 billion WCF estimate.

  • Budget request and enacted comparatorFY2027 request; FY2026 enacted; FY2025 actual

    The April 2026 non-cyber O&M justification requests $1,035.974 million for FY2027, compared with $1,113.055 million FY2026 enacted and $901.872 million FY2025 actual. This is the identified O&M account, not all agency appropriations.

    Source: DCSA FY2027 O&M budget estimates, April 2026, page 2

  • Revolving fund budget estimateFY2027 President’s Budget estimate; FY2026 comparator

    The FY2027 working-capital-fund justification estimates $1,803.025 million of spending authority from offsetting collections, compared with $1,876.852 million for FY2026. It finances reimbursable personnel-vetting services; these are fund estimates, not a separate direct appropriation or a remaining-balance measure.

    Source: DoW FY2027 Revolving Funds budget estimates, DCSA pages 69–70

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Mission & responsibilities

Authority & organization

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Source notes
  • Do not sum appropriated O&M and customer-funded WCF figures into an unqualified 'total budget': account scope and reimbursable flows matter.
  • Amounts are documented budget requests/estimates, not remaining FY funds.
  • DCSA is not DSCA (the Defense Security Cooperation Agency).
Institutional limits

Security oversight is not CFIUS, an economy-wide commercial regulator or a blanket criminal-investigation grant. 10 USC4819 places DCSA within a multi-actor acquisition-risk chain. Existing legal authority does not establish sufficient staffing, analytic systems or current uncommitted funding.

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