It is common today for even consumer-grade cameras to tag the images and videos that they capture with the location of the image on the earth’s surface (geolocation). However, some imagery does not have a geolocation tag and it can be important to know the location of the camera, image, or objects in the scene. For this imagery, analysts work...
The goal of the CSQ program is to demonstrate a reproducible, ten-fold increase in coherence times in superconducting qubits. To achieve this goal, researchers are focused on developing 1) fundamental understanding of defects that currently limit coherence times (T1 and T2) and readout fidelity; 2) means to characterize, measure and definitively di...
The semiconductor industry continues to scale integrated circuits in accordance with Moore's law, and is currently developing the processing and design infrastructure at the 22 nm technology node and beyond. However, analysis tools, instrumentation, and methods have not kept pace with the need for improved analytical capability and metrology of the...
IARPA is interested in human physiological changes arising from the synthesis or handling of chemical and biological agents of interest and related materials. BIC anticipates that distinguishing biomarkers reflective of changes in host status after exposure would be observed in physiological matrices. These biomarkers may be from immunological, tra...
The Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology (BEST) Program seeks to significantly advance the state-of-the-science for biometrics technologies. The overarching goals for the program are: To significantly advance the Intelligence Community's (IC) ability to achieve high-confidence match performance, even when the features are derived from non...
The Babel Program is developing agile and robust speech recognition technology that can be rapidly applied to any human language in order to provide effective search capability for analysts to efficiently process massive amounts of real-world recorded speech. Today’s transcription systems are built on technology that was originally developed for ...
Massive numbers of video clips are generated daily on many types of consumer electronics and uploaded to the internet. In contrast to videos that are produced for broadcast or from planned surveillance, the "unconstrained" video clips produced by anyone who has a digital camera present a significant challenge for manual as well as automated analysi...
The goal of the ACE Program is to dramatically enhance the accuracy, precision, and timeliness of intelligence forecasts for a broad range of event types, through the development of advanced techniques that elicit, weight, and combine the judgments of many intelligence analysts. The ACE Program seeks technical innovations in the following areas: (a...
BBC - Imagine you come across a message that could contain life-saving information. But there's a problem: you don't understand a word. You're not even sure which of the world's thousands of languages it is written in....To break that barrier, IARPA is funding research to develop a system that can find, translate, and summarise...
Nextgov - The intelligence community wants to put biometric identification technology on drones but has hit a wall when it comes to the most widely used biometric: facial recognition....The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, issued a broad agency announcement solicitation for its latest attempt to improve biometrics at...
SMART automates broad-area search of multi-source satellite imagery to detect, monitor, and characterize the progression of anthropogenic or natural processes, such as heavy construction or crop growth. By augmenting the manual imagery analysis process with global-scale image processing and machine learning, SMART provides timely discovery and moni...
The RESILIENCE program seeks to develop reliable power solutions to enable increased mission run-times for electronics used by the Intelligence Community. RESILIENCE is designed to increase power solution energy densities by up to 2x and calendar life by up to 10x beyond the performance of commercial solutions. Potential applications include Unmann...
The BRIAR program aims to provide the U.S. Intelligence Community with the ability to perform accurate and reliable biometric identity intelligence across a wider range of imagery and collected from a wider selection of sensor platforms. The BRIAR program began in November 2021, with the goal of developing software algorithm-based systems capable o...
The SCISRS program seeks to develop smart radio techniques to automatically detect and characterize RF anomalies that may indicate a compromise of secure data in complex RF environments. The specific types of anomalies include low probability of intercept (LPI) signals, altered or mimicked signals, and abnormal unintended emissions. National securi...
OneZero - Almost as soon as the coronavirus appeared in the news, so too did speculation that it was purposefully engineered, the result of experimentation at one of several Wuhan laboratories....On April 30, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence declared, on behalf of the 17 different organizations that make up the U.S. inte...
Syracuse University - An application developed by a team based at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies and its Center for Computational and Data Science has been selected as a 2019 TechConnect Defense Innovation Awardee. The research that led to the TRACE app was supported by a multi-million dollar funding award from...
SIGNAL - Catherine Marsh, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, is hiring personnel to fill several new office director positions. The new personnel will help recruit program managers, develop and guide programs, and strengthen relationships with the intelligence community, enhancing the transition of technolo...
Federal News Network - The intelligence community is looking for what it calls tools and technologies for rapid capabilities against the pandemic. And it’s calling on industry and academia for proposals. Promising ones will get seedling awards to develop them further. Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the deputy director of research at t...
USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Biometrics systems like iris scanning or fingerprint recognition are no longer fantastical concepts of a distant sci-fi future. From iPhone fingerprint authentication to facial recognition systems in airports, it’s safe to say that the future is very much right now...."As these advantages make more people and ...
EurekAlert! - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology examined how cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition relate to neuronal health in 290 healthy young adults. ... The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects supported this research.
