Permanently move CIA Support and S&T directorates out of Virginia

Research notes

• Negative search, 2026-08-27. In the federal records we keep and search: no Federal Register notice from the Central Intelligence Agency since 2025-01-20 concerns relocation (the agency’s notices are Privacy Act systems of records and the operational-files decennial review); no bill in Congress matches “central intelligence agency” relocation; nothing in White House presidential actions. A web search (“CIA relocate directorate out of Virginia Ratcliffe 2025 headquarters move”) returned only internal reorganizations — the Directorate of Digital Innovation renamed Directorate of Mission Systems and the Center for Cyber Intelligence elevated to a mission center (Federal News Network, 2026-06-30, https://www.federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2026/06/ratcliffe-details-fundamental-reshaping-of-cia-tech-efforts/ — allowlisted, loaded by title only; a lead for a different ask, not a move out of Virginia).
• Searched again, 2026-08-27. Checked the two statutory vehicles that would carry a relocation and neither does. The Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2026 (Division F of P.L. 119-60, enacted 2025-12-18) legislates on the CIA in Subtitle A of Title LXV — notification of novel expenditures, security of CIA installations, a workplace-climate assessment, a Chaplain Corps, a procurement technical amendment — and says nothing about moving a directorate or opening a campus; no occurrence of “Virginia”, “relocate”, “headquarters” or “campus” in Division F concerns the CIA (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm — read). The FY2027 Intelligence Authorization Act has not passed either chamber (S. 4615 reported 2026-08-05; H.R. 9624 ordered reported 2026-07-20). The CIA’s entire Federal Register footprint since 2025-01-20 is four notices: the decennial operational-files review (2025-05-16) and three Privacy Act systems of records (2025-09-16, 2026-01-15, 2026-07-01).