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.
B24IC
Dr. Michael Patterson
Biointelligence and Biosecurity for the Intelligence Community (B24IC) program seeks to develop...
BETTER
Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The BETTER program aims to dramatically compress the information discovery cycle for Intelligence...
BRIAR
Dr. Lars Ericson
The BRIAR program aims to provide the U.S. Intelligence Community with the ability to perform...
HAYSTAC
Dr. Jack Cooper
HAYSTAC aims to establish models of “normal” human movement across times, locations, and people in...
HIATUS
Dr. Timothy McKinnon
The HIATUS program aims to develop novel human-useable systems for attributing authorship and...
Odin
Dr. Lars Ericson
The Odin program is developing biometric presentation attack detection technologies to help the...
REASON
Dr. Steven Rieber
REASON aims to develop novel technologies that will enable intelligence analysts to substantially...
ReSCIND
Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter
The IARPA ReSCIND program aims to improve cybersecurity by developing a new set of...
SMART
Dr. Jack Cooper
SMART automates broad-area search of multi-source satellite imagery to detect, monitor, and...
TEI-REX
Dr. Michael Patterson
The TEI-REX program aims to establish novel approaches for evaluation of individuals or organisms...
TrojAI
Dr. Kristopher Reese
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly applied to a variety of domains within the...
WRIVA
Ashwini Deshpande
The WRIVA program aims to develop software systems to perform site modeling in scenarios where a...
AGILE
Dr. Bill Harrod
The AGILE program seeks innovative, energy-efficient, and reliable computer architectures that can...
ELQ
Dr. Michael Di Rosa
The Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ) program aims to advance the state of the science in universal...
EQuAL-P
Dr. Paul Kolb
The EQuAL-P program aims to realize significant gains in the performance of electrically small...
LHO
Dr. Alexis Truitt
The Little Horned Owl program is developing ultra-quiet mini UAVs (defined as having a take-off...
LogiQ
Dr. Michael Di Rosa
The LogiQ program aims to advance quantum computing by creating an error-corrected logical qubit,...
MicroE4AI
Noel Wheeler
The MicroE4AI program aims to drive innovations in hardware/ software and algorithm-architecture...
MIST
Dr. Pedro Espina
The MIST program launched in September 2019 to deliver a new category of resource-efficient...
PICARD
Dr. Sherrie Pilkington
The IARPA PICARD program intends to develop a fieldable sensing platform for the rapid...
RESILIENCE
Dr. Dawson Cagle
The IC needs reliable power sources for missions in extreme and challenging environments. This...
SCISRS
Dr. Paul Kolb
The goal of the SCISRS program is to develop smart radio techniques to automatically detect and...
SINTRA
Dr. Alexis Truitt
The IARPA SINTRA program aims to investigate the interaction of orbital debris with the...
SMART ePANTS
Dr. Dawson Cagle
The SMART ePANTS program seeks to develop clothing with integrated audio, video, and geolocation...