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Research Fellow For Autonomous Systems And The U.S. Defense Industrial Base

The mission of the National Defense University (NDU) is to educate joint warfighters and other national security leaders in critical thinking and the creative application of military power to inform national strategy and globally integrated operations, under conditions of disruptive change, to prevail in war, peace, and competition. The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is the research arm of NDU. INSS Fellows provide strategic advice to decisionmakers throughout the Department of War (DoW), including the Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of War, Combatant Commands and Services. INSS Fellows conduct applied research in support of the warfighter. They engage regularly with DoW senior leaders. They also publish books, journal articles, and policy reports.

Major duties and responsibilities of the Research Fellow for Autonomous Systems and the U.S. Defense Industrial Base will be as follows:

Research: All INSS Fellows are required to conduct applied research in support of the warfighter. This research may be conducted independently or as part of a collaborative team. INSS Fellows publish their research in the form of books, journal articles, and/or policy papers and are required to author no less than two, original, high-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles annually. INSS Fellows also are encouraged to promote their research at symposia, through blogposts, and opinion pieces.

Engagement: All INSS Fellows are required to coordinate their research topics with, and present findings to DoW senior officials (General Officers / Senior Executive Service). INSS Fellows disseminate their findings in the form of interim and final briefings, trip reports, and/or policy memoranda. INSS Fellows also are encouraged to engage with other U.S. government stakeholders, U.S. military allies and partners, relevant think tanks, academic institutions, businesses, and the larger national security enterprise, depending on their expertise. These engagements may include conferences, workshops or wargames.

Teaching/JPME: All INSS Fellows are considered research faculty. INSS Fellows also contribute to the intellectual community of Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) institutions in general, and to NDU in particular. This support includes teaching core or elective courses, guest lecturing, contributing to curriculum developing, collaborating on programs targeting student, faculty, and/or staff development, and/or significant student mentoring or advisory programs within NDU. Teaching support is based on the needs of the colleges but also with consideration of INSS Fellows' expertise and ongoing research.

University Service: All INSS Fellows are required to support NDU-wide scholarship. These activities may include serving on university hiring or promotion boards, participating in the Institutional Review Board, maintaining an NDU-wide community of interest (COI), supporting NDU leader engagements, and/or convening roundtables, tabletop exercises, or conferences (and publishing conference reports) for the NDU community and DoW stakeholders.

Administrative Requirements: INSS does not have designated administrative support staff. As such, all INSS Fellows are expected to comply with administrative requirements in a timely manner. This requirement includes completing monthly reports, travel request forms, country and theater clearance request forms, travel vouchers, conflict of interest paperwork, training requirements, and other administrative tasks. The Autonomous Systems Fellow should expect to adhere to these basic administrative requirements.

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