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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 Credi...

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 describi...

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 2...

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...

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 Algo...

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...

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...

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 abse...