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.
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.
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.
ARTS
Dr. Mark Becker
The ARTS program aims to develop novel algorithms that will modify spontaneous speech in real-time...
B24IC
Dr. Michael Patterson
Biointelligence and Biosecurity for the Intelligence Community (B24IC) program seeks to develop new...
BENGAL
Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The BENGAL program aims to understand large language model (LLM) threat modes, quantify them and to...
BETTER
Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The BETTER program aims to dramatically compress the information discovery cycle for Intelligence Co...
BRIAR
Dr. Lars Ericson
The BRIAR program aims to provide the U.S. Intelligence Community with the ability to perform accura...
HAYSTAC
Dr. Jack Cooper
HAYSTAC aims to establish models of “normal” human movement across times, locations, and people...
HIATUS
Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The HIATUS program aims to develop novel human-useable systems for attributing authorship and protec...
Odin
Dr. Lars Ericson
The Odin program is developing biometric presentation attack detection technologies to help the gove...
REASON
Dr. Steven Rieber
REASON aims to develop novel technologies that will enable intelligence analysts to substantially im...
ReSCIND
Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter
The IARPA ReSCIND program aims to improve cybersecurity by developing a new set of cyberpsychology-i...
SMART
Dr. Jack Cooper
SMART automates broad-area search of multi-source satellite imagery to detect, monitor, and characte...
SoURCE CODE
Dr. Kristopher Reese
The SoURCE CODE program is seeking to provide novel technologies to assist forensic experts in makin...
TEI-REX
Dr. Michael Patterson
The Intelligence Community (IC) seeks methods for evaluating individuals and/or organisms exposed to...
TrojAI
Dr. Kristopher Reese
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly applied to a variety of domains within the Intell...
WRIVA
Ashwini Deshpande
The WRIVA program aims to develop software systems to perform site modeling in scenarios where a lim...
AGILE
Dr. Bill Harrod
The AGILE program seeks innovative, energy-efficient, and reliable computer architectures that can a...
ELQ
Dr. Michael Di Rosa
The Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ) program aims to advance the state of the science in universal fau...
EQuAL-P
Dr. Paul Kolb
The EQuAL-P program aims to realize significant gains in the performance of electrically small anten...
LHO
Dr. Alexis Truitt
The Little Horned Owl program is developing ultra-quiet mini UAVs (defined as having a take-off weig...
LogiQ
Dr. Michael Di Rosa
The LogiQ program aims to advance quantum computing by creating an error-corrected logical qubit, a...
MicroE4AI
Noel Wheeler
The MicroE4AI program aims to drive innovations in hardware/ software and algorithm-architecture tha...
PICARD
Dr. Sherrie Pilkington
The IARPA PICARD program intends to develop a fieldable sensing platform for the rapid identificatio...
RESILIENCE
Dr. Dawson Cagle
The RESILIENCE program seeks to develop reliable power solutions to enable increased mission run-tim...
SCISRS
Dr. Paul Kolb
The SCISRS program seeks to develop smart radio techniques to automatically detect and characterize...
SINTRA
Dr. Alexis Truitt
The IARPA SINTRA program aims to investigate the interaction of orbital debris with the surrounding...
SMART ePANTS
Dr. Dawson Cagle
The SMART ePANTS program seeks to develop clothing with integrated audio, video, and geolocation sen...