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 TEI-REX program
IARPA's MicroE4AI program
Highlights
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Last week, @IARPA welcomed over 200 members of the Intelligence Community, other federal agencies, and representatives from the six prime performers to kick off the BENGAL Program, aimed at the safe use of Large Language Models across the IC.
— IARPA (@IARPAnews) May 14, 2026
“BENGAL will help the IC harness the…
IARPA Releases Five New Innovation Programs to Enhance National Securi...
April 29, 2026
In alignment with President Trump and DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s ODNI 2.0 vision to accelerate the delivery of technical capabilities to the Intelligence Community (IC), IARPA today rel...
RFI on Biologically-Derived Materials for Transient Propulsion Systems
April 20, 2026
IARPA has posted a Request for Information (RFI) on Biologically-Derived Materials for Transient Propulsion Systems The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) see...
IARPA announces the 2026 WRIVA Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) Chal...
April 17, 2026
Take part in the 2026 WRIVA Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) Challenge. This competition intends to advance innovation and reproducibility in the field of local-context ground-...
Hear PDDNI Lukas Welcome remarks at IARPA's ETA Proposers' Day
January 23, 2026
On January 7, 2026 ODNI Principal Deputy Director Aaron Lukas joined IARPA to kick off our Proposers' Day in Rockville, MD. At this successful event -attended by more than 550 re...
ETA Proposers Day (ARCADE, COSMIC, DECIPHER, LOCUS, MOVES) - Jan. 7, 2...
December 16, 2025
Proposers' Day registration The Intelligence Community (IC) needs to accelerate the delivery of essential technologies to meet the nation’s most pressing national security challe...
End-Gen BAA
August 12, 2025
End-Gen BAA End-Gen proposes a program seeking to develop novel methods of arbitrary generative waveforms, enabling the intelligence community, and wider USG, to more easily and...
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.