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 purpose of the ARTS Program is to develop novel systems that will modify spontaneous speech in r...
B24IC
Dr. Thomas Schneider
The B24IC program will inspire and enable IARPA and the wider intelligence community to pursue novel...
BENGAL
Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The BENGAL program aims to understand large language model (LLM) threat modes, quantify them and to...
BRIAR
Dr. Stergios Papadakis
The BRIAR program aims to provide the U.S. Intelligence Community with the ability to perform accura...
HAYSTAC
Dr. Reuven Meth
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...
ReSCIND
Dr. Perry Sherouse
The ReSCIND program leverages well-established cognitive vulnerabilities and human limitations to im...
SMART
Ashwini Deshpande
SMART automates broad-area search of multi-source satellite imagery to detect, monitor, and characte...
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...
Video LINCS
Dr. Reuven Meth
The Video LINCS program aims to develop re-identification methods that autonomously associate object...
WRIVA
Ashwini Deshpande
The WRIVA program aims to develop software systems to perform site modeling in scenarios where a lim...
AGILE
Dr. Mark Becker
The AGILE program seeks innovative, energy-efficient, and reliable computer architectures that can a...
ELQ
Dr. William Benard
The Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ) program aims to advance the state of the science in universal fau...
End-Gen
Dr. Adam Anderson
The End-Gen program seeks to develop generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and machine learning (...
EQuAL-P
Dr. Mickey Batson
The EQuAL-P program aims to realize significant gains in the performance of electrically small anten...
PICARD
Dr. Sherrie Pilkington
The PICARD program aims to develop a fieldable sensing platform for the rapid identification of aero...
RESILIENCE
Dr. Brian Borak
The RESILIENCE program seeks to develop reliable power solutions to enable increased mission run-tim...
SCISRS
Dr. Adam Anderson
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
Christopher Roberts
The SMART ePANTS program seeks to develop clothing with integrated audio, video, and geolocation sen...
SOLSTICE
Dr. Brian Borak
The SOLSTICE program aims to develop novel solar-power and hybrid solar-power systems with significa...