Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

7. Intelligence Community · Minor

Make the IC Chief Information Officer a primary member of the DNI staff

Not started

Printed page 228 7. Intelligence Community

“An incoming Administration should appoint the ICCIO as a primary member of the DNI staff along with the ODNI General Counsel, IC Chief Financial Officer, and ODNI Chief Operating Officer.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The object is in the asked-for state and no act of this administration is evidenced as having put it there. ODNI's leadership page, read on 2026-09-03, lists under the heading "ODNI Officials" — the DNI's own principal staff — Douglas Cossa, IC Chief Information Officer, alongside Chief Operating Officer John Douglas, IC Chief Financial Officer Tidal McCoy II and General Counsel Jack Dever, which is the whole slate the Quote names. Cossa's ODNI biography on the same page says he "serves as the Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the primary Information Technology (IT) advisor to the Director of National Intelligence". Two limits keep the rung where it is. The page is an undated directory: it evidences who sat where on the day it was read, not a dated act of appointment or designation (playbook §5). And the ICCIO has been a statutory ODNI office since the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, so the arrangement may well predate 2025-01-20 — which would make this an Already-true case rather than an achievement. Nothing read establishes when it began, so `pre_satisfied` is not set either; the honest record is the observed state plus the open question. Nothing found makes the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer a primary member of the DNI's staff by any act inside the window. The phrase "Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer" appears nowhere in the enrolled text of P.L. 119-60, whose Title LXIV reorganization of the ODNI (sections 6402 to 6405) touches the DNI's authorities, an ODNI staffing plan, the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center and the Office of Engagement, but not the ICCIO. `src/data/people.json` carries no Current office matching this post, and no confirmation or designation was found.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • This ask is an appointment, so we checked first our roster of the people the Mandate credits: it has no entry whose current office is the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer.
  • Corrected on 2026-09-03: ODNI’s leadership page is readable. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership redirects to https://www.odni.gov/leadership/, which opens with the complete roster and full biographies.
  • Open question: whether the ICCIO already sat among the DNI’s principal staff on 2025-01-20. If it did, this item would be Already true rather than a bare not started. Settling it needs a pre-window ODNI organization chart or leadership page, which was not opened.
Action
appoint
Object
Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (ICCIO)
ID
605