The MIST program seeks to use sequence-controlled polymers (e.g., DNA) as the basis for deployable digital information storage technologies. These technologies can eventually scale into the exabyte regime and beyond with reduced physical footprint, power, and cost requirements relative to conventional storage technologies. If successful, this progr...
The MICrONS program aimed to close the performance gap between human analysts and automated pattern recognition systems by reverse-engineering the algorithms of the brain The human brain has the remarkable ability to learn patterns from small amounts of data and then recognize novel instances of those patterns despite distortion and noise. Although...
The MATERIAL program aims to revolutionize the way the IC consumes foreign language information, by turning multilingual text and speech media into useable intelligence information for analysts, regardless of their language expertise. A large portion of the ever-increasing amounts of text, audio, and video data produced in today’s world is being...
The MAEGLIN program aims to develop an ultra-low power chemical analysis system for remote, unattended detection of chemicals in order to provide the Intelligence Community with capabilities in persistent environmental monitoring to detect emissions that indicate illicit activity such as manufacturing of weapons, narcotics, toxins and pollutants, e...
The LogiQ program aims to advance quantum computing by creating an error-corrected logical qubit, a construct that encodes quantum information into a block of many imperfect physical qubits in a specialized way that, ideally, enhances the performance of the block relative to its constituents. Demonstrations of logical qubits by the program will mar...
The need for increasingly sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence purposes requires a maturation of the technology to include the need for quiet UAVs. The Little Horned Owl program is developing ultra-quiet mini UAVs (defined as having a take-off weight of 55 pounds or less) to further enable critical intelligence and militar...
The Janus program dramatically improved the performance of facial recognition software by increasing the speed and accuracy of identity matching. This was achieved not only for videos and images with properly lit, well-posed frontal facial images, but also when the illumination, observation angle, and facial expressions varied widely, such as in...
The Ithildin program aimed to develop a broad toolkit of new sorbent capabilities – materials that selectively capture chemicals from the environment – for the Intelligence Community enabling improved sample collection, large area protection, and “smart” filters capabilities. Sorbent materials in use today trap all impinging compounds...
HFGeo developed a capability that dramatically improved the USG ability to geolocate and characterize highfrequency (HF) emitters HF communications are very attractive as their signals can propagate over continental distances by “bouncing” off the Earth’s ionosphere. Yet, the geolocation of transmitted HF signals is challenging because they...
The HFC program developed and tested hybrid geopolitical forecasting systems, which integrated human and machine forecasting components to create accurate, flexible, and scalable forecasting capabilities. Intelligence analysts are faced with the daunting task of developing intellectually rigorous, well-supported assessments of...
The goal of the HECTOR program is to build a framework that enables the development of a broad spectrum of secure distributed applications that use advanced cryptographic techniques. The HECTOR program seeks to develop a comprehensive set of design tools, programming languages, and verification tools to: Enable application developers to leverage ne...
The Fun GCAT is developing methods to rapidly assess the function of DNA sequences to determine if they pose a threat. Used to automatically process large datasets or to supplement subject matter expert review, Fun GCAT technology will enable improved detection of bio-error or bio-terror. Current screening methods to flag dangerous DNA sequences ar...
The FELIX program aims to augment and improve current biodetection and biosurveillance capabilities by developing new computational and experimental tools for detection of engineered biological systems. New biotechnologies have enabled the development of diverse biological systems, with potential benefits ranging from new vaccines to improved crops...
The DIVA program is creating automatic activity detectors that can watch hours of video and highlight the few seconds when a person or vehicle does a specific activity (e.g., carry something heavy, load it into a vehicle, then drive away). These activity detectors work in single-and multi-camera streaming video environments, and can be used to impr...
The CREATE program developed tools and methods designed to improve analytic reasoning through the use of crowdsourcing and structured analytic techniques. These new resources empower multi-disciplinary collaboration among analysts to provide the Intelligence Community with accurate, timely, and evidence-based analyses. Structured analytic...
CORE3D developed a methodology for the automated creation of dimensionally-accurate, realistic-looking, lightweight 3-D models from satellite imagery to provide situational awareness essential to military, humanitarian, and intelligence mission planning. Timely, spatially-accurate, and realistic models are essential for mission planning, intelligen...
Cyber-attacks evolve in a phased approach. Detection typically occurs in the later phases of an attack, and analysis often occurs post-mortem to investigate and discover indicators from earlier phases. Observations of earlier attack phases, such as target reconnaissance, planning, and delivery, may enable warning of significant cyber events prior t...
Power and cooling for large-scale computing systems are rapidly becoming unmanageable problems for the enterprises which depend on them. The trend towards large, centralized computing facilities to house supercomputers, data centers, and special purpose computers continues to grow, driven by cloud computing, support of mobile devices, Internet traf...
The BETTER program aims to dramatically compress the information discovery cycle for Intelligence Community analysts by designing systems that extract personalized, mission-relevant semantic information from text and leverage this information to substantially improve search capabilities Massive volumes of multilingual, unstructured text present an ...
The Amon-Hen program seeks innovative, low-cost approaches for passive, ground-based interferometric imaging of GEO satellites. The program is envisioned as a 33-month effort that is intended to begin by March2018. Phase 1 will last for a period of 15 months and will focus on the development of component technologies, physics-based system modeling ...
