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The Department of Energy is a cabinet-level agency whose mission it is to foster a secure and reliable energy system that is environmentally and economically sustainable, to be a responsible steward of the Nation's nuclear weapons, and to support continued United States leadership in science and technology. Its Office of Intelligence, as a member of the Intelligence Community, brings the broader Department's unique capabilities and perspectives to bear on intelligence problems and challenges.

DOE's Contribution to Intelligence

The Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence (IN) is the Intelligence Community's premier technical intelligence resource in four core areas: nuclear weapons and nonproliferation; energy security; science and technology; and nuclear energy, safety, and waste. Tapping the broad technology base of DOE’s national laboratories and the international reach of the DOE complex as a whole, IN accomplishes a three-part mission:

  • To provide DOE, other US Government policy-makers, and the Intelligence Community with timely, accurate, high-impact foreign intelligence analyses.

  • To ensure that DOE’s technical, analytical, and research expertise is made available to the intelligence, law enforcement, and special operations communities.

  • To provide quick-turnaround, specialized technology applications and operational support based on DOE technological expertise to the intelligence, law enforcement, and special operations communities.

DOE's intelligence program traces its origins to the days of the Manhattan Project, when the former Atomic Energy Commission was tasked to provide specialized analysis of the nascent atomic weapons program of the Soviet Union. Since then, that program--like the functions of the old AEC--has come to reside within DOE. It continues to evolve in close concert with changing policy needs and the strengths of DOE’s unique scientific and technological base, from the world energy crisis of the 1970s—and consequent demand for intelligence expertise in international energy supply and demand issues—to growing concerns over nuclear proliferation in this decade.

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Core Values of DOE’s Office of Intelligence

  • Take on the most critical, complex, and technologically challenging crosscutting intelligence questions--and reward the risk-taking necessary to do so. To address these seemingly intractable issues, IN analysts must push the envelope and surface creative, non-traditional approaches.

  • Bring intelligence directly to the policy process. IN analysts work side-by-side with policy counterparts every day, and their efforts are connected to concrete policy initiatives and objectives at every step.

  • Value problem solvers and deal makers, individuals with a solid grounding in one specialty but able and eager to reach out from there. IN's analysts are expected to be at the nexus of several communities, making connections among the often radically different cultures of policy process, intelligence and national security, and science and technology.

  • Maintain the flexibility to adapt to changing policy needs while staying anchored to core capabilities. IN's small size and close connection to both senior policy makers and DOE's national laboratories enable it to stay abreast--and ahead of--emerging issues.

  • Avoid extensive hierarchy filtering every product. IN analysts are hired for quality, then given the broad latitude they deserve to create top-notch contributions to the policy process.

  • Embrace individuals who want to go places. Analysts are exposed to an unusual breadth of players, from other intelligence agencies to senior policy officials to DOE's national laboratories.

 

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