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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Spotting Objects From Space Is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder
June 28, 2022
WIRED - A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters. SMART stands...
ELQ Proposers' Day
June 27, 2022
The Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ) program aims to advance the state of the science in universal fault-tolerant quantum computing (UFTQC) by demonstrating high-fidelity entanglemen...
New intel program will tap AI to help personnel ‘walk through’ unfamil...
June 22, 2022
FedScoop - The intelligence community’s primary research arm launched a new program to develop software algorithm-based systems that will fuse imagery captured from various al...
WRIVA BAA Release
June 21, 2022
WRIVA BAA The WRIVA Program aims to develop software algorithm-based systems that can create photorealistic, navigable three-dimensional site models using a highly limited corpus o...
MicroE4AI: AI 2.0
May 19, 2022
For some people, the words Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) may conjure images of a dystopian world of machines, which are stronger, think faster, have no mor...
Finding a Needle with HAYSTAC
May 17, 2022
Whenever an unexpected natural or human-driven event occurs, the movement before and after that event tells a story. Most people flee the areas of natural disasters and terrorist a...
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.