The National Access Elsewhere Security Oversight Center was established by DCSA in 2019 with a reasonable premise: take the roughly 5,000 cleared facilities that do not possess classified information onsite — about 40 percent of the entire National Industrial Security Program — and consolidate oversight of them in a centralized unit, freeing regional field operators to focus on more complex, higher-risk possessing facilities. After six years, the consensus among DCSA’s own field personnel is that the center has not delivered on that premise.