IARPA in the News 2021
LANL: Translation Software Enables Efficient DNA Data Storage
In support of a major collaborative project to store massive amounts of data in DNA molecules, a Los Alamos National Laboratory–led team has developed a key enabling technology that translates digital binary files into the four-letter genetic alphabet needed for molecular storage....The work is key part of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program to bring cheaper, bigger, longer-lasting storage to big-data operations in government and the private sector.
The languages that defy auto-translate
Imagine you come across a message that could contain life-saving information. But there's a problem: you don't understand a word. You're not even sure which of the world's thousands of languages it is written in....To break that barrier, IARPA is funding research to develop a system that can find, translate and summarise information from any low-resource language, whether it is in text or speech.
Do Humans Trust AI Coworkers?
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Do humans trust AI assistants? If so, when? If not, why? Do human-AI collaborations fare better than AI or human intuition alone?... To quantify such human-machine relationships, we need a lot of humans willing to try to collaborate with AI in a lab environment.
Intelligence community is calling on AI to ease work on analysts
The intelligence community awarded four contracts to build out a program that will allow artificial intelligence to tag and track satellite images. The Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) is an undertaking by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity — the IC’s high risk, high reward research arm.
IARPA Launches Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique Program
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today a multi-year research effort called the Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) program. SMART will automate broad-area search of multi-source satellite imagery to detect, monitor and characterize the progression of dynamic processes such as heavy construction or crop growth...
