Primary Responsibilities:

• Performing in-depth technical studies requiring specialized skills or knowledge.
• Developing technology roadmaps to achieve mission needs.
• Conducting risk/benefit analysis of different technical choices or outcomes.
• Providing independent reviews and summaries of technical and scientific literature.
• Performing horizon scanning to identify emerging threats or opportunities, identifying available commercial and open-source capabilities, and establishing industry benchmarks.
• Participating, presenting, and producing materials for working groups, workshops, and interagency forums to provide expertise and technical consultation.
• Providing expertise and advice on research and development processes and providing recommendations on how to adopt technologies into IC capabilities.
• Providing technical consultation and assessments on specific topics.
• Informing the development of IC-wide science and technology policies, requirements, needs, risks, and investments.