Overview

• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced a reorganization that will reduce ODNI’s headcount to roughly 1,300 by the end of fiscal 2025 after more than 500 prior cuts.
• ODNI projects saving at least $700 million annually through consolidations, hiring freezes and eliminations of positions and contracts.
• The plan shutters the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center and the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, with core functions redistributed.
• The Strategic Futures Group and the External Research Council will be dissolved, and the National Intelligence University will transfer to the Defense Department’s National Defense University.
• Reactions split quickly, with Senate Intelligence leaders Tom Cotton praising the downsizing and Mark Warner questioning Gabbard’s approach after her revocation of 37 security clearances this week.