Research Programs

IARPA sponsors cutting-edge research on a broad range of subjects to benefit and support the Intelligence Community. Our Program Managers are currently engaged in four primary research areas, including, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, machine learning and synthetic biology.    

To learn more about the types of programs our program managers have supported and are currently supporting, please see the below list. If there is a specific area of your interest that is not listed here, please contact one of our Program Managers for additional information. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your ideas for future research.

Research Office of Analysis

The goal of analysis research is to maximize insights from the massive, disparate, unreliable and dynamic data that are--or could be--available to analysts, in a timely manner. Our programs are in diverse technical disciplines but have common features involving potential transition partners at all stages, beginning with the definition of success, creating technologies that can earn the trust of the analyst user by providing the reasoning for results, and addressing uncertainty and data provenance explicitly.

Research Office Collection

The goal of collections research is to dramatically improve the value of collected data from all sources by developing new sensor and transmission technologies, new collection techniques that more precisely target desired information, and means for collecting information from previously inaccessible sources. In addition, IARPA pursues new mechanisms for combining information gathered from multiple sources to enhance the quality, reliability, and utility of collected information.

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B24IC

Dr. Michael Patterson
The Biointelligence and Biosecurity Research Topics of Interest (B24IC) program seeks to develop...

BETTER

Dr. Timothy McKinnon
Massive volumes of multilingual, unstructured text present an overwhelming challenge for analysts...

BRIAR

Dr. Lars Ericson
The BRIAR program aims to provide the U.S. Intelligence Community with the ability to perform...

DIVA

Dr. Jack Cooper
Monitoring security video at airports, border crossings, or government facilities is critical for...

FELIX

Dr. David Markowitz
New biotechnologies have enabled the development of diverse biological systems, with potential...

HAYSTAC

Dr. Jack Cooper
HAYSTAC aims to develop novel capabilities that produce large scale...

HIATUS

Dr. Timothy McKinnon
HIATUS seeks to develop novel human-useable AI systems for attributing authorship and protecting...

MATERIAL

Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The MATERIAL program is a 47-month venture seeking to address this challenge by building robust,...

MICrONS

Dr. David Markowitz
The MICrONS program aims to close the performance gap between human analysts and automated pattern...

Odin

Dr. Lars Ericson
Biometrics are used by the U.S. government to verify identities and locate persons of interest.

SMART

Dr. Jack Cooper
Manual exploitation methods do not scale with the volumes of data available from single individual...

TEI-REX

Dr. Michael Patterson
The goal of the Targeted Evaluation of Ionizing Radiation Exposure (TEI-REX) program is to...

TrojAI

Dr. Donald Hornback
The TrojAI program seeks to defend AI systems from intentional, malicious attacks, known as...

WRIVA

Ashwini Deshpande
WRIVA aims to develop software algorithm-based systems that can create photorealistic, navigable...