Federal cybersecurity workers will be getting a new headquarters through funding included in the 2015 appropriations bill, the Washington Business Journal is reporting.
The new $35 million campus will focus on civilian cybersecurity operations, bringing together a workforce currently spread through the D.C. area, according to reporter Michael Neibauer.
The center is also expected to be a boon to the local economy, attracting private sector entities active in cybersecurity.
The General Services Administration is putting together a plan to move forward, though decisions on where, when and how the center will be built have not been reached, according to the report.
“This is an idea whose time has come,” Philip Reitinger, president of VisionSpear and former deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at DHS, wrote in a blog post on Federal Times in October.
“We can make it easier for the federal government to work together both among its key agencies and with the private sector, taking a ‘One Team, One Fight’ approach to cybersecurity,” he wrote. “Having those agencies down the hall from each other, so that a dispute can be resolved with a cup of coffee instead of a memo, is both possible and valuable.”
