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Intelligence community is calling on AI to ease work on analysts
January 22, 2021
Federal News Network - The intelligence community awarded four contracts to build out a program that will allow artificial intelligence to tag and track satellite images. The Space...
Intel Agencies Seek to Perfect Biometric Recognition from Drones
December 11, 2020
Nextgov - The intelligence community wants to put biometric identification technology on drones but has hit a wall when it comes to the most widely used biometric: facial reco...
Translating lost languages using machine learning
October 21, 2020
MIT News - Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost, or “undecip...
An automated pipeline for understanding how the brain is wired
October 02, 2020
Allen Institute - To truly understand the brain, we need a roadmap of how it’s wired. The gold standard for studying the cellular architecture and the connectivity of brain cells i...
Cloud Computing Lets IARPA Carry on During COVID-19
September 01, 2020
SIGNAL - The cloud computing infrastructure at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity allowed the organization to pivot to a new teleworking norm during the pand...
How Do We Know If a Virus Is Bioengineered?
August 05, 2020
OneZero - Almost as soon as the coronavirus appeared in the news, so too did speculation that it was purposefully engineered, the result of experimentation at one of several Wuhan...
TRACE App Chosen as TechConnect Defense Innovation Awardee
July 21, 2020
Syracuse University - An application developed by a team based at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies and its Center for Computational and Data Science has been s...
IARPA Pivots to Fight Coronavirus
July 13, 2020
SIGNAL - Two research programs at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, commonly known as IARPA, are now undergoing evaluation to see if they may provide solutio...
IARPA Leader Creating Office Director Positions
July 06, 2020
SIGNAL - Catherine Marsh, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, is hiring personnel to fill several new office director positions. The new pe...
IC calls on academia, industry to help with new technologies for pandemic
June 15, 2020
Federal News Network - The intelligence community is looking for what it calls tools and technologies for rapid capabilities against the pandemic. And it’s calling on industry and...