The CIA's new cyber-division will be called the Directorate of Digital Innovation. It joins the four existing Directorates: Support, Science and Technology, and Operations and Analysis, under the new organization plan. Analysis is reverting to its traditional name, having been renamed "Directorate of Intelligence" previously, while Operations used to be known as the "National Clandestine Service."

Additionally, agency director John Brennan announced the establishment of ten new "mission centers," gathering CIA officers from across different Directorates to concentrate on specific subjects, regions or targets.

The 9/11 Commission criticized the CIA for not sharing intelligence that might have helped stop the 2001 attacks, and recommended a number of intelligence reforms. The new "mission centers" will put together operatives from the five Directorates to follow urgent threats and "fill information gaps", Brennan explained.