One common design type, shown here, is a SCIF built into a metal shipping container. The perimeter walls are layered with gypsum board and plywood, then sheathed in a material that prevents ...

The White House Situation Room is a SCIF. These spaces have built inside homes, like the ranch of former President George W. Bush in Texas and Trump’s residences in New York and Florida ...

SCIFs can vary in size from a small room to an entire building, and the average cost per square foot for one of these rooms ranges between $350 and $1,000.. Federal agencies like the CIA and NSA ...

Tyler Sinni, a Largo police officer, left, and U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Sean Phelan, a 6th Security Forces flight chief, attempt to open a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility door at a ...

The Coast Guard’s ambitious plan to build a fleet of heavily-armed, long-range, networked vessels — capable of serving side-by-side with Navy warships — has had its share of setbacks. The ...

When members of the U.S. military and other federal government agencies need to discuss the big secrets, they go into secure, soundproof rooms called “Sensitive Compartmented Information ...

The Bethesda, Maryland, mansion, in the Bradley Hills Grove area, has a private SCIF, along with a wine cellar, a private gym, and a screening room. A DC-Area Home With a Top Secret SCIF Room Just ...

It’s “excruciating.” It smells like a “locker room.” And what happens there is supposed to stay there. When history is written about President Donald Trump’s pre… ...