Full Name
Jacqueline Tame
Job Title
Director, Government Affairs
Company
PsiQuantum
Speaker Bio
Jacqueline is Director of Government Affairs at PsiQuantum – a company building the world’s first useful faulttolerant, error corrected quantum computer. Prior to her role at PsiQuantum, Jacqueline was the VP, Innovation at Landus – a multii- billion-dollar agricultural coop in Iowa. Before joining Landus, Jacqueline served as the Acting Deputy Director and inaugural Chief Performance Officer of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).
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. 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 ofDefense 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 ofGAMECHANGER – DoD’s first, AI-enabled policy/legal analytics platform to automate the discovery and mapping ofDoD 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 ofPublic Affairs degree from the University ofTexas at Austin, as well as a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College’s College of Naval Warfare.
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. 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 ofDefense 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 ofGAMECHANGER – DoD’s first, AI-enabled policy/legal analytics platform to automate the discovery and mapping ofDoD 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 ofPublic Affairs degree from the University ofTexas at Austin, as well as a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College’s College of Naval Warfare.
