Newsroom
Discover the latest on IARPA in the news, and explore upcoming opportunities. Sort through IARPA news articles, upcoming events, showcase items, and press releases using the filter box below. For additional information, please contact IARPA Public Affairs by clicking 'learn more' in the Media Inquiries box below.
News Stories
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...
One Space Imaging System to View Them All
April 01, 2018
Signal - Researchers working on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community are kicking off a program designed to develop a revolutionary capability for monitoring objects in geostat...
Government Seeks Biometric Tech That Doesn’t Need People To Scan Fingerprints
March 27, 2018
Nextgov - In the future, human cops will still be the ones arresting you, searching you and booking you, but machines might be taking your fingerprints. The Intelligence Community’...
IARPA Launches “VirtUE” Program to Improve Workstation and Virtual Desktop Security
March 20, 2018
Press Release - WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today the launch of the Vir...
IARPA Announces the Winners of the Functional Map of the World Challenge
March 16, 2018
Press Release - WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced the winners of the function...
IARPA Reaching Out to Nontraditional Industry
March 14, 2018
National DEFENSE - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is reaching out to nontraditional companies to help the U.S. intelligence community maintain its technologic...
DNA: Nature's data center
February 28, 2018
GCN - Data centers are booming right now, gearing up to handle compute, network and storage needs for a more connected world. But they already have large footprints, and as the col...