Chief Policy and Collaboration

The NCSC/Security Directorate (SD) The Security Directorate (SD) protects the nations security interests by providing comprehensive security solutions. SD develops and implements policies, guidance, and standards for personnel security, IC-wide and SCI security-relevant issues, and security clearance reform. SD also engages with government and industry partners to protect national security equities against foreign intelligence and security threats, and advance the U.S. Governments risk management environment to safeguard against adversarial and insider threats. The NCSC/SD directly supports the DNIs responsibilities as the Security Executive Agency (SecEA) across the Executive Branch and serves as the DNIs designee for oversight of national security programs across the Intelligence Community (IC). The SD/Group Chief is responsible for leading the successful formulation, development, coordination, production, and evaluation of Executive-level security-policies, processes, and guidance i