Mission AI Campaign Staff Officer

Summary

The Policy & Capabilities (PC) Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. PC is comprised of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and Policy Strategy and Accountability (PSA) Office.

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U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

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Open to current and former Federal employees with competitive or excepted status; and all U.S. Citizens. Former members of the Peace Corps may be considered for ODNI employment only if five full years have elapsed since separation from the Peace Corps.

Duties

The Policy & Capabilities (PC) Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. PC is comprised of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and Policy Strategy and Accountability (PSA) Office.

ODNI's Policy and Capabilities (P&C) Directorate is squarely focused on winning the geostrategic competition to secure America's future. P&C establishes the IC's strategic roadmap, develops requisite IC policies, and drives technology capabilities in alignment with national priorities.

Within P&C, the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) leads DNI-directed, results-oriented campaigns in key contested areas, including on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Compute, and Space & Sensors. These campaigns run from 18-36 months and are focused on establishing multi-agency capabilities that will transform the intelligence community (IC).

The "Mission AI Campaign" is a bold, enterprise-wide effort to harness the power of AI to revolutionize the way IC executes its mission. It will produce solutions that improve the IC's ability to deliver unprompted warning and improve the IC's ability to make sense of increasing amounts of data and information. By leveraging innovative partnerships between government and industry, the campaign is committed to rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment of AI solutions.

The campaign will address technical, research, infrastructure, data and policy elements needed to build multi-modal, multi-agent solutions.

SCO is seeking two exceptional Mission AI Staff Officer to serve as critical liaisons and facilitators for the Mission AI Campaign. Candidates will be dynamic, organized problem-solvers that will represent ODNI supporting multiple campaign use cases, serving as the primary interlocutor between operational teams and ODNI campaign and technical leadership. Successful candidates will drive rapid solution enablement, break down barriers to integration, ensure adherence to campaign timelines, and facilitate cross-team sharing of functional solutions.

Use Case Coordination & Representation: Serve as ODNI's designated representative to multiple campaign uses cases and associated working groups. Includes facilitating working group meetings, managing information flow, ensuring that AI efforts are aligned with campaign objectives, and addressing operational challenges.

Maintain situational awareness of working group progress, challenges, and emerging opportunities across assigned use case working groups.

Ensure working groups remain synchronized with overall campaign goals and timelines.

Build and sustain productive relationships across organizational boundaries.

Program Management: Track working group progress against campaign milestones and deliverables, monitor risk factors and develop mitigation strategies.

Interlocutor & Facilitation: Act as the primary day-to-day liaison between working groups and ODNI campaign and technical leadership. (U) Facilitate rapid resolution of legal, policy, technical, and data-related barriers to integration.

Coordinate stakeholder engagement and decision-making across multiple organizational equities.

Solution Enablement & Integration: Identify and rapidly address obstacles preventing solution deployment and integration.

Work across IC agencies to ensure multi-agency collaboration and capability building.

Drive toward measurable outcomes within aggressive 6-12 month timelines.

Knowledge Management & Cross-Pollination: Establish and maintain mechanisms for sharing functional solutions, best practices, documentation, artifacts and lessons learned across all working groups.

Identify synergies and opportunities for cross-team collaboration. (U) Document and disseminate innovative approaches that can be scaled across the IC.

Brief senior leadership on progress, challenges, and recommendations.

Participates in and leads administrative working groups to plan and develop int