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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? Inte...
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 s...
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...