The Policy & Capabilities Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. Comprised of 7 organizations, PC oversees IC Human Capital; Acquisition, Procurement & Facilities; Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity; Science & Technology Group; Requirements, Cost & Effectiveness; Policy & Strategy; and Domestic Engagement, Information Sharing & Data.

Duties

ODNI's Science & Technology (S&T) Office champions IC S&T resources to enable effective and efficient execution of the IC S&T mission; leads and supports Community efforts to recruit and develop an increasingly agile, effective, and diverse IC S&T workforce; develops and sustains collaborative relationships with traditional and non-traditional partners to close intelligence gaps and improve IC capabilities and capacity; and finds, creates, and deploys scientific discoveries and new technologies, nurturing innovative thought, advancing tradecraft, and improving mission and business processes. Throughout this work, ODNI S&T engages with a variety of stakeholders across the IC, broader interagency, Executive Office of the President, Congress, as well as academia and industry. Major Duties and Responsibilites: Advance the mission of ODNI's Science & Technology (S&T) Office by conceiving and leading activities related to artificial intelligence (AI), innovative federal acquisitions, and/or the office's broader portfolio of programs. Conceive, plan and conduct activities in support of the identification and synthesis of future technology trends to guide IC S&T investments, manage contracts, coordinate forecasted activities, and develop periodic reports for the IC. Lead the collection and evaluation of, and advocate for, new innovative technology concepts to enhance operations and mitigate mission gaps across the IC. Lead the identification and review of substantive science and technology intelligence developments in coordination with the NISTC, and ensure management and staff are kept abreast of emerging developments related to the S&T programmatic initiatives. Provide expert programmatic recommendations to management and other major stakeholders by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data from across the IC's S&T portfolio. Provide expert guidance and advice to Office of the Director of National Intelligence and IC on matters of such difficulty and controversy that leading experts disagree as to the proper approach to or the probable outcome of significant and far-reaching efforts and generate new hypotheses, develop new concepts, and plan and evaluate the long-range programs and projects that accomplish the mission. Represent the organization at meetings, conferences, and other public forums to foster and cultivate strategic alliances with other IC components. Prepare expert findings, reports, briefing papers, and other communication vehicles; serve as a principal advisor on the policies and procedures governing S&T intelligence information. Conceive, cultivate, develop, and sustain professional networks across the IC and in operational and analytic communities. Lead and support year-round Intelligence Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (IPPBE) activities with the IC elements that will inform senior decision makers on key S&T issues. Lead the evaluation and preparation of estimates of the technical maturity of key technologies used in IC acquisition programs. Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements: Superior ability to understand and synthesize new scientific and technical advances from a range of technical disciplines into policy, investment, and/or acquisition recommendations that will impact mission. Expert knowledge and experience with the IC's technology community, AI, and/or innovative federal acquisition practices, and broad understanding of the organizations, missions and functions, and operating practices of the IC. Expert experience with leadership of studies of outstanding difficulty, exceptional attainments, and responsibility along special technical, supervisory, or administrative lines. Superior ability to understand and synthesize new scientific and technical advances from a range of technical disciplines into policy or investment recommendations that will impact mission. Superior ability to lead studies, initiatives, or projects across multiple IC elements through superior collaboration, negotiation, or facilitation. Expert knowledge and experience with the IC's technology community, including research and development entities, and broad understanding of the organizations, missions and functions, and operating practices of the IC. Superior oral and written communication and interpersonal skills and the superior ability to work effectively with peers and leaders from across the IC and Department of Defense. Expert experience with work of superior impact on agency programs related to a rapidly evolving field. Expert experience pioneering development efforts to achieve new capabilities with previously unattainable characteristics. Expert experience conceiving, planning, and conducting pioneering work of outstanding scope, difficulty, and complexity in unexplored or previously unpromising areas of investigations or managed complex and extensive scientific programs of critical importance to the agency. Expert experience with work involving high levels of uncertainty and the balancing of conflicting interest of extreme intensity. Expert experience with work of major importance and scope as to affect technical policies of a major department or agency, have a significant bearing on legislation, or involve equivalent implications. Expert extended training and experience which has demonstrated leadership and unusual attainments in professional, scientific, or technical research, practice, or administration, or in administrative, fiscal, or other specialized activities. Expert experience consulting or other professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized work of equal importance, difficulty, and responsibility, and requiring comparable qualifications. Desired Requirements: 12+ years of relevant work experience, including experience in the field of AI Assurance or cybersecurity.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Contacts

• Address POLICY AND CAPABILITIES Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]