# Sensitive Compartmented Information
**Entity class:** Classified-information control category
**Aliases:** SCI
**Maturity:** Developed
## Definition
**Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)** is classified national-intelligence information controlled within formal access systems beyond the underlying classification level. Facilities handling it require accredited physical, technical, personnel, and information-security controls.
## Relationships
- **workspace:** Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, commonly SCIF.
- **facility case:** [[wiki/Intelligence Consolidated Mission Facility|Intelligence Consolidated Mission Facility]].
- **enterprise:** [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise|Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [ODNI — Intelligence Community Directive 705](https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_705_SCIFs.pdf)