High Risk High Payoff Research
IARPA invests in research programs to tackle some of the Intelligence Community's (IC) most difficult challenges.
IARPA's Amon-Hen program
IARPA's FELIX program
IARPA's SILMARILS program
IARPA's P-SPAM seedling
IARPA's FELIX program
Highlights
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REASON BAA Release
March 20, 2023
REASON BAA Release REASON aims to develop novel technologies that will enable intelligence analysts to substantially improve the evidence and reasoning in draft analytic reports. I...
High-risk, high-reward projects are changing the future of technology
February 7, 2023
Government Matters - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests federal funding into high-risk, high-reward projects to address challenges facing the inte...
Accurate Aerosol Identification—Really Fast
February 6, 2023
In 2022, the United States set a grim record with the deaths of over 110,000 Americans from drug overdoses—a record mainly attributed to the increase of illegal fentanyl. And for t...
U.S. Intelligence Wants to Use Psychology to Avert Cyberattacks
January 25, 2023
The Wall Street Journal - IARPA scientists are taking up the nascent field of cyber psychology to predict and counter hacker behavior. The main research organization of the U...
Using REASON to Improve Intel Analysis
January 25, 2023
Every day, the Intelligence Community (IC) labors to provide policymakers with insightful analysis to answer and inform on some of the toughest national security questions and issu...
ELQ BAA Release
January 23, 2023
ELQ BAA Release The Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ) program aims to advance the state of the science in universal fault-tolerant quantum computing (UFTQC) by demonstrating high-fide...
IARPA offers the unique opportunity to take risks with science....to identify and explore multiple pathways to solve a problem.
Research
IARPA's collaboration with Intelligence Community (IC) partners ensures our ability to address cross-agency challenges, leveraging both operational and research and development expertise from across the IC.
Office of Analysis
Analysis focuses on maximizing insights from the massive, disparate, unreliable, and dynamic data that are—or could be—available to analysts, in a timely manner.
Office of Collection
Collection aims to improve the value of collected data by developing new sensor and transmission technologies, collection techniques that more precisely target desired information, and means for collecting from previously inaccessible sources.
About IARPA
IARPA's mission is to push the boundaries of science to develop solutions that empower the Intelligence Community and ensure more robust support to national security. We also facilitate the transition of research results to our IC customers for operational application.