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High-risk, high-reward projects are changing the future of technology
February 07, 2023
Government Matters - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests federal funding into high-risk, high-reward projects to address challenges facing the inte...
U.S. Intelligence Wants to Use Psychology to Avert Cyberattacks
January 25, 2023
The Wall Street Journal - IARPA scientists are taking up the nascent field of cyber psychology to predict and counter hacker behavior. The main research organization of the U...
IARPA to develop novel AI that automatically generates tips to improve intel reports
January 06, 2023
FedScoop - The intelligence community’s key research hub is launching a new program to build tools that exploit recent advances in artificial intelligence to ultimately help i...
IARPA Director Visits Brown University
November 21, 2022
Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Director, Dr. Catherine Marsh, recently returned to her alma mater, Brown Un...
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
November 01, 2022
WIRED - The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger. The effort was anno...
Biointelligence and National Security in the 21st Century
October 12, 2022
SIGNAL - Over the past five years, IARPA has launched 10 new bio-focused programs, a threefold increase compared to IARPA’s first decade of existence. This includes the Findin...
DNA Edges Forward As Data Storage Option
September 29, 2022
Semiconductor Engineering - In 2014, Markowitz had foreseen a big problem, not only for intelligence agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency, but also for...
IARPA Explores AI to Reimagine Physical Safety and Combat Disinformation
July 08, 2022
FedTech - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is actively working on sever...
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...
New intel program will tap AI to help personnel ‘walk through’ unfamiliar areas before they arrive
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...