Reimagining the SCIF Life

This paper focuses on how to permanently adapt and reshape the way the Intelligence Community (IC) workforce works. COVID-19 challenged the assumptions about how the IC approached work and helped to clarify what was critical to be done in a classified environment and what could be done remotely. While the effects of the pandemic still linger on, the societal trend for remote work and telework is still in place and has changed the dynamics of when it is a necessary to work in a e Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility SCIF, as well as how that environment can be reconsidered to improve the workplace.

Some of the IC has restructured in innovative ways to accommodate the desire and need for flexibility that supports work-life balance. Some employers actively pursued change on a permanent basis while other organizations only made temporary adjustments.