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DNI Coats Names New IARPA Director
August 14, 2018
WASHINGTON – Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats announced today the selection of Dr. Stacey Dixon to be the next director of the Intelligence Advance Research Projects Act...
IARPA Announces the Mercury Challenge - To Develop Innovative Forecasts for Events Across the Middle East
July 12, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today the launch of the Mercury Challenge....
IARPA Announces a Participant's Day for the “CASE” Prize Challenge A Competition to Improve Evaluation of Polygraph-Related Technologies
July 10, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today a Participant’s Day for the Credibili...
IARPA Announces the “FOFRA” Prize Challenge to Improve Face Recognition
June 13, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today the Fusion of Face Recognition Algori...
IARPA Announces the Winners of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge
March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces the winners of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint...
IARPA Announces the UG2 Prize Challenge to Improve UAV Captured Imagery
March 19, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today the UG2 Prize Challenge for unmanned...
IARPA Launches "SuperTools" Program to Develop Superconducting Circuit Design Tools
February 22, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today the “SuperTools” program, a multi-yea...
IARPA Launches "CORE3D" Program to Build Accurate 3-D Models from Satellite Imagery
February 12, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today that it has established a multi-year...
IARPA Announces the Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge to Improve Crowdsourced Forecasts
January 16, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today the upcoming launch of the Geopolitic...
IARPA Launches “DIVA” Program to Automatically Detect Complex Activities from Video
January 12, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today an exciting new research effort to de...