 File overview. The Foundation's mission is to secure, contain, and protect. While unified behind these goals, achieving them requires a wide variety of approaches. This has necessitated the creation of numerous departments, each specializing in a specific task, discipline, or field. Some of the more notable departments are listed below, although it should be noted that these are not the only departments, and a more comprehensive list can be found elsewhere. Administration O5 Council Overview The O5 Council, also known as the Council of Overseers or Overwatch Command, is the highest authority within the SCP Foundation. The Council members have level 5 security clearance, giving them unredacted access to the entire SCP database. While uninvolved in routine matters and deliberately separated from any contact with the anomalous, when O5 Council members do choose to intervene, their word is final. The exact number, identities, and roles of the O5 Council members is strictly classified. Ethics Committee Overview While the O5 Council decides what is safe, the Ethics Committee determines what is ethical. While the Foundation takes a pragmatic approach to moral quandaries, the Ethics Committee ensures that only necessary sacrifices are made, and that the most ethical option is always chosen. Foundation personnel should be aware that the Ethics Committee is observing, evaluating, and passing judgment. Record Keeping and Information Security Administration Overview The Record Keeping and Information Security Administration, RA-ISA, is responsible for keeping the Foundation database secure and intact. RA-ISA controls access to classified information, deciding what to redact and what to reveal. RA-ISA also protects the database against intrusion and infiltration, and monitors inconsistencies in Foundation documentation to discern whether the cause is mundane or anomalous. Unemployees may encounter notes from RA-ISA appended to SCP documentation, often signed by RA-ISA Director Maria Jones. These notes offer important context for the information that follows. Departments Alchemy Department Overview The alchemy division of the Foundation's Department of Science is often dismissed in the relic, or a curiosity by their colleagues in more mainstream disciplines. However, alchemy is not simply a primitive form of science. Alchemy is the field of study, specializing in the manipulation of the aetheric forces that form the basic elements of reality. When conventional science fails to explain an anomaly, it may be time to consult an alchemist. Antimemetics Division Overview Antimemes are ideas with self-centering properties that discourage or prevent people from spreading them. The Antimemetics Division exists to research and contain anomalous antimemes. These concepts, objects, and entities threaten normalcy and endanger human life, but are almost impossible to record or even remember. Through careful observation, extensive training, and regular use of mind-altering amnestics, the Antimemetics Division is able to deal with the dangers that everyone else forgets. Artificial Intelligence Applications Division Overview The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division, AIAD, of the Foundations IT Department was created to develop, study, and utilize artificial intelligence. This includes containing or neutralizing anomalous artificial intelligences, as well as creating foundation-aligned artificial-intelligent conscripts, .aic, to run foundation facilities and be deployed on field missions in digital space. Decommissioning Department Overview Although the focus of the Foundation is on containment rather than destruction, there are anomalies that are too dangerous, unpredictable, or resource-intensive to be safely contained. When all else fails, the last resort is the Decommissioning Department. This department reviews petitions to intentionally terminate anomalous objects, approving only those proposals de-necessary and viable. The Decommissioning Department also provides expert advice on the most efficient ways to decommission anomalies, utilizing humane methods while minimizing collateral damage. Department of Miscommunications Overview The Department of Miscommunications, DOMC, specializes in anomalies that manipulate language or communication in ways that make them difficult to accurately describe and contain. Existing at the convergence of emetics, anti-memetics, linguistics, and metaphysics, the Department has the unenviable task of writing special containment procedures for some of the Foundation's most perplexing anomalies. Department of Mythology and Folkloreistics Overview The Department of Mythology and Folkloreistics studies the roles the anomalous has played in the development of human culture, using this research to identify anomalies and advise on potential containment methods. Studying everything from ancient myths to urban legends, from lost lands to restless spirits, the Department ensures that insights into the anomalous found in folklore from around the world are integrated into the Foundation's body of knowledge rather than being ignored or forgotten. Department of Surrealistics Overview We at the Department of Surrealistics are dedicated to the identification and containment of anomalies that cannot be understood with traditional logic and or left-braining. It was founded on October 35th, 1491 by an intelligent swarm of blue Swallowtail butterflies, and it's all been downhill ever since if you ask me. The Department of Surrealistics utilizes agnostics and upbrained thinking to better understand unreality. The Department of Surrealistics is headquartered in a meta-metaphysical space called Site Butterfly. The Department of Surrealistics dreams of you. Please leave your preconceptions and teeth at the door. Department of Tactical Theology Overview The Department of Tactical Theology is responsible for assisting in the capture, containment, and neutralization of theological anomalies. The Department is involved in the containment of anomalous items suspected to holy relics and extra-normal events believed to be miracles, and also deals with paranormal cults and apexed-tier pluripotent entities. Headquartered in Reliquary Area 27 but operating worldwide, the Department has a diverse staff of theologians, clerics, and skeptics with sub-departments specializing in different religious traditions. Telecommunications Monitoring Office Overview The Telecommunication Monitoring Office, TMO, handles the Foundation's worldwide analysis and processing of information gathered from telephone calls. This includes the routine surveillance of calls made to emergency services in facilities like Site-14. Although aided by algorithms sensitive to key words, the majority of the TMO's work involves human operators screening thousands of mostly mundane calls for any evidence of anomalous involvement. Temporal Anomalies Department Overview The Temporal Anomalies Department deals with retrocausal, temporal, and counter-historical anomalies. The Department is actually a small subdivision of Research and Containment Team Delta T, RCT Delta T, an agency that exists outside of the normal Foundation command structure. This unusual position enables it to operate in any time period or timeline. Although it does mean RCT Delta T operatives have difficulty getting their credential recognized by other departments, since at present the department has not yet been founded. Department of Unrealty Overview Handles a very specific subset of anomalous phenomena affecting SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities, which links to SCP-3790.