Intelligence Agency Looks to Mix Cleared, Uncleared Workers
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants to build workspaces that can accommodate a hybrid workforce of people and organizations with and without security clearances.
By Lauren C. Williams
Staff Writer
January 10, 2022
Personnel
Intelligence
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is imagining a hybrid work environment that supports uncleared workers and visitors while trying to make space for unanticipated needs, the agency's CIO said.
Mark Andress, the CIO for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said modernizing the IT infrastructure for its St. Louis campus is a priority for 2022, calling it a "post-COVID, intelligence community facility designed and conceived prior to COVID."
The goal, he said during a virtual event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance on Jan. 6, is for the facility to handle traditional, highly classified intelligence gathering and analysis "in the same facility, or networked in and out of facility, with a purely unclassified production environment. And that is what has been a huge security goal."
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/01/nga-looks-tech-support-unclassified-workforce/360515/
