The Central Intelligence Agency took a significant step into the digital age with the official launch of its Directorate for Digital Innovation (DDI), a bureau devoted to giving officers around the world better IT tools to do traditional cloak-and-dagger work.
The new directorate, the CIA’s first in a half century, is a milestone in the agency’s quest to modernize its IT systems and further operationalize its cyber capabilities. CIA Director John Brennan announced plans for the directorate, which includes the spy agency’s CIO shop, in March in a message to the CIA workforce, saying “we must place our activities and operations in the digital domain at the very center of all our mission endeavors.”
