Jay Tilden

Jay Tilden currently serves as the Director for the Department of Energy's Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. In this role, he is the department's senior intelligence and counterintelligence officer, executing the department's nuclear and energy intelligence missions at headquarters as well as across the national laboratories, plants, and sites.  

He served previously as the Deputy Under Secretary for Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  In that role, Mr. Tilden was responsible for overseeing federal, national laboratory, plant, site and support service contractor employees across the DOE enterprise with a $430M operating budget. His organization's primary mission included providing technically informed policy and operational recommendations required to advance U.S. nuclear counterterrorism, counterproliferation, nuclear forensics, and nuclear incident response objectives, while informing U.S. government agencies on nuclear threat devices.  

Earlier in his career, Mr. Tilden served as the Director for the Office of Nuclear Threat Science for NNSA from 2008-2012.  He previously held positions as an Intelligence Advisor in the Office of Nuclear Counterterrorism and was the division director for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence from 2003-2008 at the Department of Energy.

Mr. Tilden served in both active and reserve capacities in the U.S. Army for 22 as a Counterintelligence Technician.  He holds a B.A., from the University of Maryland.  He is a graduate of the DIA's Joint Military Intelligence College, Harvard Kennedy Senior Executive Fellows, and the National Defense University's Joint and Combined Studies for General and Flag Offices (DOD Capstone Program).

Mr. Tilden has one son, Addison and resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Brooke, who is on detail to the National Security Council.