Science & Technology Officer - Bethesda, United States - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Description

Summary

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

Interface and coordinate with interagency partners across the executive branch to execute programs and priorities in support of the IC's science and technology mission in a range of emerging technology with a focus on microelectronics and advanced computing.

Serve as objective party to generate consensus approaches and provide expert guidance and advice for IC leadership.

Prepare and brief senior IC leadership on key science and technology focus areas to enable well-informed decisions by policymakers.

Communicate IC priorities and needs to a range of IC programs and help perform oversight activities to ensure IC leadership remains apprised of microelectronics and advanced computing activities.

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.

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.

Lead the evaluation and preparation of estimates of the technical maturity of key technologies.

Other duties, as assigned.