4. Department of Defense · Minor
Resurrect defense intelligence economic analysis capability
Printed page 106 4. Department of Defense
“Resurrect economic analysis capability to improve our ability to counter Chinese whole-of-government strategies that combine security with predatory economic objectives.”
What has happened
- Not started
No resurrected defense intelligence economic analysis capability. Searched: the FY2026 NDAA for "economic analysis" (one hit, an Air Force research, development, test and evaluation line item) and for a DIA or Defense Intelligence Enterprise economic-analysis office; the FY2026 defense appropriations act; the Federal Register full-text API since 2025-01-20; the whitehouse.gov presidential-actions Corpus; the bills Corpus. The National Security Strategy treats Chinese economic statecraft at length without assigning an intelligence analytic capability to it.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
“Economic analysis” occurs once in the FY2026 NDAA, as a $4.1 million Air Force research line called Commercial Economic Analysis — not a defense intelligence economic analysis capability.
This item sits in the page 105–107 defense intelligence cluster (#182, #183, #184, #185, #186, #187, #188). One negative search covered the whole cluster: the FY2026 NDAA titles XV and LXV, the Federal Register full-text search, and bills in Congress from congress.gov.
- Action
- restore
- Object
- defense intelligence economic analysis capability
- ID
- 186