The $770 billion defense bill that U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law this week clocks in at over 900 pages, and buried in that mass of text is a short line item allocating $149 million to the U.S. Army for a Black Hat Intelligence Fusion Center (IFC) in South Korea.

The center is the only publicly listed intelligence project earmarked for construction in South Korea, with Seoul to foot the bill under the two sides’ cost-sharing agreement. But the defense budget reveals few details beyond its location at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek.

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