Cyber-attacks on individuals or organizations can be devastating. They may result in the loss of private personal information, the theft of proprietary company or financial data, and/or the release of organizational secrets. The number and scope of cyber-attacks have increased exponentially over the years. For example, according to one study,...
Dr. Perry Sherouse joined IARPA in November 2023. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Sherouse focuses on areas of scientific research at the intersection of technology and human systems, including topics such as social influence, behavior change, and decision-making. Prior to joining IARPA, Dr. Sherouse worked at FFRDC...
Large language models (LLMs) present massive opportunities to increase the quality and efficiency of intelligence analysis; however, LLMs are known to exhibit vulnerabilities that pose substantial risks. BENGAL aims to understand the landscape of LLM threats and vulnerabilities, with the goal of developing novel technologies to analyze and address...
With its community-wide charter since its inception, IARPA has introduced approximately 90 research programs in diverse areas, including quantum computing, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, sociology, power sources, antennas, as well as chemical and biological sensing. We are at the forefront of leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to develop...
IARPA’s remarkable people—leaders, program managers (PM), and support staff—are the driving force behind our high-risk/high-payoff research effort successes. From our first director, Dr. Lisa Porter, to our sixth director, Dr. Rick Muller, our leadership is steeped in technology. Dr. Porter, who served as deputy undersecretary of defense for...
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) public access policy outlined in the February 22, 2013 memorandum, "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research“, directed federal agencies investing in research and development to have a clear plan to increase access to scholarly publications and...
Maintain a security risk-management process to identify and protect information important to national security. Balance the benefits of acquiring the most innovative research and development (R&D) against the identified risks to national security and the Intelligence Community (IC). Enable the successful transition of IARPA advanced R&D...
The IARPA ARTS program aims to develop novel algorithms that will modify spontaneous speech in real-time to protect an individual’s privacy. Countless electronics in modern life, like smart phones, digital assistants, televisions, remote controls, and even appliances, have microphones that are always listening for speech signals, using...
IARPA Program Managers develop new concepts to address an IC (Intelligence Community) problem, then manage the research from start to finish. They chart the course for their program, which includes: Identifying goals and objectives Developing rigorous test and evaluation criteria Specifying short- and long-term milestones to gauge...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the agencies and disciplines in the Intelligence Community (IC). IARPA’s mission is to push the boundaries of science to develop solutions that empower the IC to do its work better and more...
The purpose of the ARTS Program is to develop novel systems that will modify spontaneous speech in real-time to protect an individual’s privacy against threats like speaker identification tools and forensic speech analysis. The ARTS program was formulated with the goal of developing new speech modification technologies that will alter an individu...
The ReSCIND program leverages well-established cognitive vulnerabilities and human limitations to impede cyber attackers. ReSCIND solutions will expand the traditional cyber defense toolkit to help cyber defenders protect National Security Systems and other intelligence community (IC) assets across various phases of a cyber attack. The ReSCIND prog...
Humans are exposed to radiation in a variety of ways every day, whether from a trip to the beach, radon from their basement, a flight across the country, or a trip to the dentist for an annual x-ray. For the average person, these doses are very low and decades of research have shown they pose no health risk. Even those with higher average doses,...
Every day, around the world, trillions of words are sent via email, text, social media, and other means from billions of people to billions of others. And it’s probably safe to say that the vast majority of these messages merely include prosaic or routine language that is of little concern or interest to most people. However, some of this...
DNI.gov - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, today announced the launch of a program that seeks to engineer novel artificial intelligence technologies capable of attributing authorship and protecting...
IARPA is seeking information about annotated binary and source code datasets to explore authorship (for benign tools, malicious tools, or penetration testing tools) that have been annotated with relevant information that could be obtained and made available to research partners in potential future programs. A challenge in the...
For most people, the antennas in their car radio, mobile phone, and other everyday consumer devices are not something they think about. They’re primarily concerned with the performance — or lack-there-of — of their devices. Needless to say, when the performance of a personal electronic device lags or is interrupted, it can at a minimum be...
The PICARD program aims to develop a fieldable sensing platform for the rapid identification of aerosol particles with complex chemical and physical characteristics in challenging environments. The need to distinguish chemical threats from common background chemistry is critical to national security as many threat materials are or can be dispersed ...
The IARPA SINTRA program seeks to understand the interaction of orbital debris with the surrounding space environment, and whether the resulting phenomena can be used for the detection, tracking, and characterization of lethal non-trackable orbital space debris. The detection of lethal non-trackable orbital debris would enable safer operation of ou...
The Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ) program aims to advance the state of the science in universal fault-tolerant quantum computing (UFTQC) by demonstrating high-fidelity entanglement between error-corrected logical qubits using a modular architecture. This is an essential step towards the realization of UFTQC and its potential to greatly outperform ...
