Defense Intelligence Directorate is responsible for the collection, processing, checking, stocking and making use of the data concerning the risk factors and domestic and foreign threats, whether military and non-military, that can infringe on our national security from the military standpoint; coordinates the implementation of the counterintelligence measures and the co-operation with the other national intelligence structures/services as well as with the ones pertaining to the international alliances, coalitions and organizations Romania is member of; ensures the protection of the national, NATO and European Union’s classified information at the level of the Ministry of Defense.

Defense Intelligence Directorate’s personnel carry out their activity whether overtly or undercover according to the national security military requirements.
Defense Intelligence Directorate can coordinate combat structures when collecting information in the theaters of operations or fighting terrorism.

Defense Intelligence Directorate is headed by a general director an active-duty military. The General Director is appointed by the minister of defense, with the approval of the Homeland Defense Supreme Council. The general director position is the equivalent of the state secretary one.

Certain equipment and specific goods are procured from local or international partners, according to law.