Intelligence Community Campus Bethesda

Modern Design on the Potomac

Creating a centralized campus for improved communication and information-sharing.

After 9/11, U.S. intelligence agencies moved towards centralizing and improving communication and information-sharing. The Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) enlisted LEO A DALY to reinvent the 725,000 SF Intelligence Community Campus–Bethesda (ICC-B) as the consolidated home of 16 intelligence agencies.

The project encompassed the design and construction of a new facility and the renovation of three existing buildings on the 1940s-era National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (GIS) campus. Initial attempts to modernize the campus failed because the designs were too monolithic and did not meet the approval of the neighborhood’s advocacy groups.

Interface created illustrations of the design to help communicate the vision for the campus with the neighbors and a wide array of stackholders.

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