The COVID-19 outbreak is forcing all federal agencies to contemplate teleworking at scale. This creates unique challenges for the secretive intelligence community (IC), whose culture is anchored in security clearances, windowless buildings, classified computer networks, and in-person meetings with trusted colleagues. This cultural identity is not conducive to accomplishing missions during a prolonged pandemic, and its workforce must be effective outside Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs).
This comes while intelligence tradecraft is radically shifting. New technology is altering notions of connectivity and privacy. Open-source data is king. Commercial intelligence companies are blossoming. From satellite imagery to cell phone tracking data, intelligence is mainstream and being monetized by everyone from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
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WNU Editor: The intelligence community and its workforce cannot operate from home with current existing technologies. The above analysis is correct that how federal agencies operated in the past is not feasible in the current environment.
There is not enough of a pandemic to work from home for the intel community.
ReplyDeleteWe have been lied to so much by different people and organizations, who have their rice bowls out begging for more money at the trough.
We are told scare stories by people who are less bright than they think they are like Bill Gates (Bill Gates is not stupid, but his mother's influence had a lot to do with his success) about Disease X. We are told Disease X might be like another 1918 pandemic with its 2% death rate. Well the 1918 flue was H1N1. it has come back several times and the last time was 2009 with a whopping .03% death rate.
Big Whoop.
Any death rate is to be taken seriously, but not to the extent of shutting economies down
and acting like old men and women afraid of our shadows.