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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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...
Biggest brain map ever details huge number of neurons and their activi...
April 9, 2025
Nature - Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain so far, by mapping cells in 1 cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain tissue...
Intelligence Community AI Cybersecurity Program Achieves ‘Massive Sc...
February 26, 2025
SIGNAL Magazine - An Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) program aimed at protecting artificial intelligence (AI) systems from Trojan attacks is affecting rel...
Ending Generational Delays in Next Generation Wireless with End-Gen
February 19, 2025
Waveforms like Wi-Fi, 4G/5G, and Bluetooth satisfy the general population’s basic wireless communication and information sharing needs, but the static nature of these fixed wavef...
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.