JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In an unclassified message to the CIA workforce, CIA Director John Brennan announced a long-expected reorganization for the intelligence agency.
Brennan says that the CIA has previously faced similar shifts in national security and landscape and that each time it has proven “it can adapt and transform in significant ways,” highlighting the agency’s response to global terrorism. “The time has come for us to do so again, which will require bold action in four interrelated areas,” Brennan said in his message.
Brennan’s changes aim to “attract the best from the broadest pool of American talent and develop our officers with the skills, knowledge, and Agency-wide perspective they will need to lead us into the future,” “be positioned to embrace and leverage the digital revolution to the benefit of all mission areas,” implement “organizational construct and business practices that support our decisionmaking process” and “allow all of our Agency’s capabilities to be brought to bear as quickly and coherently as possible to meet the Nation’s challenges.”
The CIA will create ten new Mission Centers to “bring the full range of operational, analytic, support, technical, and digital personnel and capabilities to bear on the nation’s most pressing security issues and interests,” the message says. Each center will be run by an assistant director who will report to directorate heads.
The National Clandestine Service will now be renamed the Directorate of Operations, while the Directorate of Intelligence will be renamed the Directorate of Analysis.
The agency also aims to “modernize the way we do business,” by streamlining processes and practices and delegating decisionmaking and accountability to “the lowest appropriate level.”
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