IARPA invests in high-risk, high-payoff research with the goal of providing our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage. Developing scientific breakthroughs that challenge the state of the art requires IARPA Program Managers (PMs) to take ideas from a place of “disbelief to doubt” before successfully launching an IARPA program. As pa...
Dr. Stergios J. Papadakis joined IARPA in April 2024. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Papadakis focuses on areas of research that include identity intelligence, and broad novel sensors and sensor systems. He is presently leading IARPA's efforts on the BRIAR program that aims to improve biometric identification...
Dr. La Rhonda Nicholas joined IARPA in July 2023 as the Deputy Director, to partner with the Director in leading the implementation of high-risk, high-payoff technically viable research programs that address the IC’s most challenging intelligence gaps. Coming from industry as a polymeric materials research engineer, Dr. Nicholas joined the CIA...
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...
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 e...
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...
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...
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...
The Odin program is developing biometric presentation attack detection technologies to help the government better detect when someone is attempting to hide their identity by spoofing biometric access control or authentication systems. Biometrics are used by the U.S. government to verify identities and locate persons of interest....
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 vi...
