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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...
IARPA's Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Behaviors
May 02, 2022
SIGNAL - The Deep Intermodal Video Analytics (DIVA) program, which is run by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), is “creating automatic activity dete...
AI Could Match 'Fingerprints' of Texts To Their Authors, Under New Intelligence Program
February 15, 2022
NextGov - The intelligence community’s research arm is preparing to develop new artificial intelligence systems that can identify who, or what, authored any specific text—and...
Here’s how intelligence agencies can search foreign documents without learning the language
February 04, 2022
C4ISRNET - The intelligence community now has a tool that allows English-speaking users to search through foreign language text and speech for information. The solution is par...
Meet the Elite Team of Superforecasters Who Have Turned Future-Gazing Into a Science
December 06, 2021
Entrepreneur Magazine - ...in 2011, [IARPA] launched a huge forecasting tournament for the public. At the beginning, there were five teams, and over the next four years,...
Scientists claim big advance in using DNA to store data
December 02, 2021
BBC News - Scientists say they have made a major step forward in efforts to store information as molecules of DNA, which are more compact and long-lasting than other options....