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The Feds Need Geeks to Help Them 'Forecast the Future'
September 20, 2018
PC Magazine - US national intelligence officials are looking for a few good geeks to participate in its Mercury Challenge, which is in search of machine learning tools that will in...
New head of "DARPA for spies" warns that China is attracting top research talent
August 15, 2018
CBS News - China's outsize investment in technology industries and priority research areas like synthetic biology and artificial intelligence may mean top talent that might have re...
IARPA VirtUE focuses on user roles for security
June 27, 2018
GCN - Kerry Long, program manager at Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, doesn’t pull any punches in desc...
The DNA Cops Who Make Sure the World’s Deadliest Viruses Aren’t Rebuilt
June 27, 2018
Bloomberg - Genetic engineering could help produce more resilient crops and more effective vaccines. Some fear that it could also be used to make a biological weapon.... In June 20...
Crowdsourcing security intelligence
June 13, 2018
labonline - In a memorable scene in the 2012 thriller Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA Director asks his inner circle for views about the chance that Osama Bin Laden was in a particular c...
Can politics be predicted?
June 08, 2018
GCN - In this new climate of uncertainty about global politics, the office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a blunt challenge: Can you do better? Intelligence Ad...
NIST Report and Data Could Bring Improvements to Fingerprinting Technology
May 04, 2018
NIST - Fingerprint capture technology has advanced to the point where high-quality rolled prints soon might be obtained without the manual assistance of a trained device operator,...
IARPA wants help fending off invasive aquatic species
April 30, 2018
FCW - The federal government is searching for technology to detect shellfish, seaweed or other aquatic organisms coming to U.S. ports via ballast on foreign vessels or stuck to hul...
IARPA Targets Carbon Security Risk
April 30, 2018
MeriTalk - Users have the reputation of being the weakest link in cybersecurity, because of their potential to undo the most fortified cyber setup with an exposed password or absen...
U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Tech to Identify Deadly Chemicals From 30 Meters Away
April 25, 2018
IEEE Spectrum - Sergei Skripal...and his daughter, Yulia, weren’t the only people affected by a nerve-agent attack in Salisbury, England, in March....A swarm of hazmat-suited chemi...