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 released five new research efforts using the Emerging Technology Accelerator (ETA) framework to bring mission-critical innovation to fill IC gaps. The announcement can be found here
These five AI-focused programs were initially introduced in January at an IARPA-hosted Proposers’ Day (Hear PDDNI remarks) attended by ODNI Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI) Aaron Lukas.
“These research programs will help build capabilities that are directly applicable to mission needs by bridging the technical gap between emerging solutions and successful application,” said PDDNI Lukas. “By working together, we can achieve great things and ensure our nation remains secure and prosperous in the face of emerging threats.”
“We want IARPA to be the front door for the IC’s emerging technology requirements to ensure we can harness private-sector expertise and accelerate breakthroughs in mission-critical technologies,” explained IARPA Director Russell Miller.
The five research programs – ARCADE, COSMIC, DECIHER, LOCUS, and MOVES- bring a specific focus on emerging areas of technology that are vital to the intelligence mission. Ultimately these programs seek to enhance intelligence capabilities by extracting actionable insights from a variety of complex sources such as geospatial imagery, circuit design, linguistic trends, and open-source videos.
The release of these programs represents an opportunity for the Government to engage directly with industry to accelerate the delivery of needed technological solutions.
