CDAO - Enterprise - Generative AI Program Manager, Cybersecurity

JOA: CDAO-2026-000107
 Pay Scale:  $139,395-$191,900
 Open Date: 20 May 2026
 Close Date: 27 May 2026

The Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) mission is to accelerate the adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) across the Department of Defense (DoD). The CDAO works across the Military Departments and Services, Joint Staff, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and other DoD Components to design, develop, field, and scale technologies, capabilities, strategies, policies, and other guidance related to data, analytics, and AI in support of DoD's warfighting and business functions, including responding to crises and emerging challenges with state of the art digital solutions. 

The CDAO has three broad goals of enabling, speeding, and scaling adoption of AI in the DoD. Rapid and scalable adoption of AI is a critical capability for DoD support in national security, and the CDAO executes that strategy. The CDAO’s role in facilitating the rapid adoption of frontier AI and autonomy will enable the DoD’s other objectives by informing future investments into policies, partnership, and infrastructure, enabling the adoption of AI at scale throughout the department.

As the Program Manager for Generative AI Cybersecurity, you will lead a critical mission to safeguard the DoD's AI-enabled capabilities. You will be responsible for establishing and managing programs focused on the security of generative AI models, the AI/ML pipeline, and leveraging generative AI for advanced cyber defense.

In this senior advisory role, you will foster collaboration across the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC). Your focus will be on enhancing the application of AI for cybersecurity, running red-teaming exercises against our own AI systems, and developing countermeasures to adversarial AI tactics. Your work will directly contribute to expediting the development, testing, and operational deployment of secure and resilient AI and data science capabilities for the DoD.

This position is covered by the Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). The position is located in Washington, DC. The pay plan and broadband level for this role is NH-0800/1500-04, which is equivalent to the GS-14/15 grade level. This position does have an education requirement – details can be found here.

This role will close for submissions at 11:59pm on May 27th, 2025.