I really liked one of Michael Tangi’s recent blogs “Some ideas on oversight,” where he says to “move as much of the IC out of DC as you can as fast as you can. Get people out of the shadow of the political circus tents and they’re less likely to pay attention or feel influenced by it all. Bonus: you radically jack up the resilience of the community to attack, infrastructure failure, or other disaster.”
Moving the IC out of DC would not only reduce the political pressures so influential in DC and make the community more reslient to attack, but it would also greatly expand the pool of potential new employees who may not be willing or able to work in DC. The information-age makes flattening out our physical locations achievable. Physical location should no longer be the primary organization principle. Geat idea. (I believe Chris Rasmussen of NGA has expressed this idea before as well)
