The appointment made Gompert the ODNI's second-highest-ranking official after Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper.
From 2005 to 2013, Klavans was Director of Human Language Technology program at the Foreign Language Program Office of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) or DNI.
Robert S. Litt is the second General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent on June 25, 2009.