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IARPA Announces Launch of MAEGLIN Phase 2
August 26, 2019
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today award of Phase 2 of the Molecular Analyzer for Eff...
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
June 01, 2019
The Atlantic - ...In 2005, [Philip] Tetlock published his results, and they caught the attention of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, a government org...
A Contest to Beat Geopolitical "Superforecasters"
May 14, 2019
Axios - Four years ago, a team of researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania wowed the U.S. intelligence community by producing a superior new way to forecast geopolitical...
Identifying Trojans in AI
May 08, 2019
GCN - With the rise of adversarial AI, government researchers are looking for ways to automatically inspect artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to see i...
IARPA Expands Research on Protecting AI Systems from Tampering
April 19, 2019
Biometric Update - The U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is planning a pair of programs to prevent training data from being maliciously tam...
To upgrade quantum computers, researchers look to materials science
April 12, 2019
Chemical and Engineering News - For decades, theoretical physicists and computer scientists have been compiling evidence that quantum computers will eventually leave ou...
Omnisense: U.S. Intelligence-Backed Startup Claims It Can Predict Cyberattacks Days Before They Happen
March 29, 2019
Forbes - What if you could be warned about a scam email even before it arrived in your inbox? And what if you could be told exactly what it would say and what it would do to you an...
IARPA Announces the UG2+ Prize Challenge to Improve UAV-Captured Imagery
March 15, 2019
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, today announced the UG2+ Prize Challenge, a competition th...
IARPA Launches “Ithildin” Program to Improve Chemical Sampling and Filtering
March 08, 2019
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today the launch of the Ithildin program to...
IARPA to offer potential cure for employees’ ‘linkclickitis’ disease
February 25, 2019
Federal News Network - The intelligence community, like every other federal and private sector organization, suffers from the common employee disease of “linkclickitis.” It’s...