More than 90 days from the launch of the National Risk Management Center, the team behind the center is staffing up and looking for a headquarters space.
Mark Kneidinger, the NRMC deputy director, said Thursday that the staff of DHS’ Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA) will serve as the “underlying foundation” of NRMC, along with another 40 DHS cyber personnel employees on detail.
The center, he added, will continue to make other hires, once it understands where there are “expertise gaps” in its workforce.
“We’re going to be doing that expansion once we have a better idea of where the focus needs to be, in regards to where we need those skills and then bringing those people together,” Kneidinger said at a meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) in Washington.
In addition, Kneidinger said the NRMC is “aggressively pursuing” a space to call their own, and expects to have that finalized sometime in January.
“At this point, we’re in a large SCIF area, and that’s not going to work,” he said, referring to a sensitive compartmental information facility.
“We need to have an…
