Jacqueline Tame

Founding Partner and Principal at Title 60 Strategies

Jacqueline is a founding partner and principal at Title 60 Strategies, a strategic advisory firm specializing in defense and intelligence policy, emerging technology, and legislative affairs. Most recently, Jacqueline served as the Acting Deputy Director and inaugural Chief Performance Officer of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). In this capacity, she oversaw day-to-day operations for the 200+ person, $250M Center; led engagements with the White House, Congress, and other key stakeholders and investors to raise awareness of DoD AI programs and secure policy priorities in support of JAIC offerings; advised DoD AI leadership on the federal budget environment and legislative actions; worked to position the JAIC for maximum exposure to key members ofCongress, relevant Commissions, and industry leadership; translated DoD’s AI objectives into targeted advocacy campaigns with traditional and non-traditional partners to ensure consistent messaging and sustained financial investment; led execution of key campaigns; and designed DoD’s inaugural AI performance framework, marrying statutory and policy-driven roles, responsibilities, and functions with customer- defined indicators of success to generate repeatable, outcome-based performance data.

Jacqueline began her career at the Central Intelligence Agency, leading a team of futures analysts to inform strategic acquisition and investment planning. She then transitioned to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she supported the development of IC priorities and publication of the Community’s planning and programming guidance and led IC and DoD-wide policy reviews to inform the IC’s Capability Requirements and Major Systems Acquisition processes. Finally, Jacqueline served at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), first as a Counterterrorism Mission Manager, then as Senior Policy Advisor to the ChiefPerformance Officer and Deputy Director. In 2015, while attending the Naval War College, Jacqueline was the only civilian selected to serve for a year as a Director Fellow on the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group. She returned to DIA as Chief of Customer Engagement, where she focused on DIA’s support to the Combatant Commands.

Following a decade of service in the executive branch, Jacqueline joined the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence where she served as the DIA monitor. During her tenure, she led a 14-month long review ofDIA’s roles and missions, created a roadmap for defense intelligence reform, and codified findings and legislative recommendations in a Committee report and the FY19 National Defense Authorization Act.

In late 2018, Jacqueline returned to the executive branch to lead the implementation of several of the defense intelligence reforms she had identified and recommended as a Hill staffer. As the Senior Advisor for Strategic Assessment and Integration for the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, Jacqueline designed a comprehensive framework to assess defense intelligence and security component health and readiness; advised the Under Secretary on institutionalizing and measuring the performance of a modern, Enterprise business model for defense intelligence; and designed, secured funding for, and oversaw the development of GAMECHANGER – DoD’s first, AI-enabled policy/legal analytics platform to automate the discovery and mapping of DoD authorities, roles, missions, responsibilities, and component interdependencies, decreasing DoD policy and legal query times and analyses from months to seconds.

Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French with a minor in classical vocal performance and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College’s College ofNaval Warfare. She is passionate about growing and promoting women leaders, having founded Command After Next – a small group dedicated to the mentorship, professional development, education, and championship of women in national security. A hot yoga enthusiast who legitimately can be found reading policy and Congressional Research Service reports at night before bed, Jacqueline lives with her husband Jonathan and rescue pup, Dax, in Southern California.