CURRENT SPACE POSTURE HEADQUARTERS BUILDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86-01019R000200100010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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CURRENT SPACE POSTURE
Headquarters Building
Although the organizational changes and expansions of
the past have resulted in tightening the space prob-
lem, major current factors have created additional
shortages of space and even higher saturation density
occupancy in the Headquarters Building. The Director's
expanded role as head of the Intelligence Community
has resulted in the creation of a new Intelligence
Community Staff (ICS) and a sizable new space require-
ment. The ICS has been accommodated but displaced
components were either relocated to buildings or com-
pressed even further in Headquarters Building.
The CIA operations center is presently undergoing
a phased expansion which requires additional space.
Expansion phases provide for inclusion of directorate
duty officers in the center, consolidation of OWI and
SSOC in the sixth floor expansion of the center, and
the eventual consolidation of Intelligence Community
personnel representatives and joint technical systems
to achieve a National Intelligence Operations Center
(NIOC) .
Additional space is required for increased staffing
of the Office of Development and Engine :ring ( D t:/
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Of the Office of National Estimates (ONE/DDI) and
creation of the National Intelligence Office (NIO/DCI)
with its above standard additional space requirements
is a contributing additional pressure to a saturated
space posture.
New ADP space requirements continue to surpass the
capability of existing computer centers to house
them. At the present time a _ sq. ft. computer
center is being constructed on the first floor on an
accelerated basis for the Offic:e of Joint Compuer
Services (OJCS/DDA), Project ORACLE high-speed tape
drive computer system. Studies are presently underway
to examine various options to create space on the first
floor for another expansion of the OJCS computer center
and the creation of a new computer center for the
Central Reference Service, Support Analysis for File
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Environment (SAFE) project. Spaces presently being
recaptured and identified will be for known needs.
OJCS and CRS short to medium-range planning infers
incremental phased increases in space will be required.
As environmentally sensitive computer equipment areas
have increased in'size and sophistication, their utilities
support systems have had to be expanded and upgraded.
In view of the need for increased quality and quantity
i cooling requirements, and the con-
tinuing policy of reliable and, redundant utilities
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support systems; additional space has been allocated
for power vault expansions, new uninterrupted power
systems (UPS) installations, and new heating
ventilating and air conditioning systems (HVAC).
The relative priorities for the use of space has
classically been for people and operating technical
support systems. In spite of its critical need,
the provision of storage space has always been a
secondary consideration relative to the above
priorities. Consequently our Headquarters facilities
contain minimal and far less than adequate storage
facilities for standard operating supplies; printing
paper supplies, furniture and furnishings; construction
and maintenance supplies and materials; exhibit, display,
art and artifax items; and delivered products, equipment,
and materials. At present our building corridors
have been observed to contain :Furniture, furnishings,
equipment, skids and boxes of paper and cards, and
various kinds of materials awaiting use or relocation
to another hopeful holding area. A new room constructed
in the DCI garage to eventually house a UPS system is
temporarily housing computer paper and cards. An
enclosure will be built under one of the new garage
protective canopies to house construction materials and
supplies presently stored in a basement air duct
D which has been declared a fire hazard area.
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There'`?a definite need for adequate and timely
accessible storage space in the Headquarters Building.
In general, many components in Headquarters Building
are occupying space at minimum levels of utilization
and exhibit a willingness to do so in order to efficiently
operate contiguous to centralized Headquarters functions.
Recent reductions in Agency personnel levels and several
reorganizations are providing excellent opportunities
to analyze present space utilization and recapture space
for other needs. Unfortunately, these priority needs
are imminent and the luxury of creating a much needed
"Staging Area" for interim housing of components during
moves requiring construction modifications is not possible
in spite of the advantages of liming and operation con-
venience it would provide.
External Buildings
External buildings continue to be primary but limited
sources of solutions to Headquarters Building space
probt ms and saturation conditions. The pact of above
current space needs at Headquarters Building has
resulted in a constant relocation of components from
Headquarters to external facilities complexes such as
STATINTL 2430 E Street, Rosslyn, and the Chamber of
STATINTL
Commerce Building (C of C) in F ai.rfax. _, C of C,
and Key Buildings are essentially, fully occupied. THe
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2430 E Street complex is fully utilized and has had significant
functional facilities and utilities systems. This
complex has always contained a major strategic Agency
telephone function. It performs a major role as a
"Downtown" central satellite telephone frame, through
which all telephone service to Agency facilities in the
downtown area are switched from the Headquarters Building
telephone switching system.
Unoccupied space is available in Magazine and Ames
Buildings to provide for relocation of components from
Headquarters Building and thereby assist in solving
a portion of its space problems. Space utilization in
these leased buildings is less densely occupied relative
to Headquarters Building due to the fact that building
features and utilities distribution systems limitations
allow less flexibility in layout and planning. However,
further utilization and increased space capture for
other use. Trends indicate a continuing reluctance of
Agency components to relocate to l,osslyn regardless of
higher space utilization availability.
The maintenance and operation of Magazine Building has
been below standard, and the Agency does not intend to
lease
occupy this building beyond the November 1975'expiration
date. It is questionable whether it would be practical
to relocate Agency components from Headquarters to
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unoccupied space in this building for the short time
period remaining. The General Services Administration
(GSA) has advertised for bid solicitations to replace
Magazine Building within a five-mile radius of Head-
quarters Building although the Agency specifically
requested as a desired location. It appears
likely that time delays inherent in the present GSA
freeze on leasing and in the design, construction, and
modifications of a facility to suit Agency needs could
extend beyond the expiration date of the present lease.
The Agency may have no choice other than remaining in
Magazine Building for an additional short period of time.
The recent disposal of square feet of space on
the sixth floor of by the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) has resulted in the Agency acquisition of
sufficient expansion space to satisfy the present and
immediate future growth needs of Design of the
required modifications has been. completed and demolition
and construction are presently underway to prepare the
new space and significant modifications to existing
space.
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In summary, Headquarters Building is filled to
capacity and utilized at high density. External
buildings are more adequately utilized at a lesser
density with some unoccupied space available for Head-
quarters component utilization. In view of reorgani-
zations, consolidations, and personnel reductions,
planning efforts are underway to reallocate and assign
affected space and thereby recapture space in Head-
quarters Building for other purposes. Efforts continue
to identify Headquarters components who can and will
agree to relocate to external buildings in order to
release space in Headquarters 17 or other pressing needs.
The lack of Staging Areas" in Headquarters Building
for interim housing of displaced components during
construction modifications is a major barrier to
accomplishing joint moves which are intended to enhance
space utilization-and reclaim space. Long standing
requirements for the provision of quick access storage
areas in Headquarters Building have not been adequately
provided and remain an unsolved requirement. Present
trends indicate increasing immediate future requirements
for more space in Headquarters Building to house new
and expanded computer systems.
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