Defense One - The U.S. intelligence community’s research lab has put out a call for new data tools to track and predict the spread of COVID-19 and its effects....the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or IARPA, seeks new tools for rapidly diagnosing COVID in people with and without symptoms, via contactless methods such as bre...
Bloomberg Business Week - People who get paid to make forecasts say there’s only a 9% chance that there will be a widely available vaccine for Covid-19 before next April. That’s according to Good Judgment Inc., a company that maintains a global network of forecasters to make predictions for clients based on publicly available evidence.
The University of Melbourne - SWARM technology has brought together the country’s leading experts from Australian universities to work on our recovery after COVID-19.... We were tasked by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a division of the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to find a way to improve the qualit...
USC Viterbi School of Engineering - It could be argued that scientists create superpowers in their labs. If Aram Galstyan, director of the Artificial Intelligence Division at the USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute (ISI) had to pick just one superpower, it would be the ability to predict the future. ... For the past two years, Galstyan has l...
Raytheon - Advances in genetic manipulation have raised the possibility of a new kind of attack on our food supply. ... The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is sponsoring the FELIX program to develop a set of tools that would help us tell the difference between a naturally occurring pathogen and one that was engineered to...
OneZero - Around the world, warehouses the size of several football fields store millions of hard drives’ worth of data. ... For the past few years, researchers have been tinkering with encoding songs, images, and other files in DNA. But it’s still expensive and time-consuming. Now a new program launched by the Intelligence Advanced Research P...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today the launch of the Molecular Information Storage program. MIST is a multi-year research effort to develop next-generation data storage technologies that can scale into the exabyte (1 million terabyte) regime, and beyond.....
Congress directed IARPA to lead the development of technologies that can detect deepfakes. Read More...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence welcomes Dr. Catherine Marsh as the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. She succeeds Dr. Stacey Dixon, who now serves as deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Read More...
Dr. Steven Rieber joined IARPA in 2014. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Rieber focuses on areas of scientific research that include forecasting and rational judgment and decision-making. He has led several IARPA programs including REASON, ACE, CREATE, FOCUS, MOSAIC, and HFC. Prior to joining IARPA, Dr. Rieber...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced the winners of the Open Cross Lingual Information Retrieval – OpenCLIR – prize challenge. Launched in June 2018, this challenge involved innovative approaches to retrieve information from audio and text documents, using En...
FOCUS enhanced analysis tradecraft by improving analysts’ ability to learn lessons from the past. FOCUS helped analysts correctly answer the question, “how would history have been different if actor X had instead done action Y on date Z?” Counterfactual forecasts -- statements about what would have happened if different circumstances had occu...
The aims of the VirtUE program are (a) to creatively define and develop user environments that are more dynamic, secure, auditable, transferrable, and efficient than the current offerings provided by traditional physical workstations and commercial VDI; (b) develop innovative, dynamic analytics and infrastructures that can leverage these newly deve...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly applied to a variety of domains within the Intelligence Community (IC). The TrojAI program seeks to defend AI systems from intentional, malicious attacks, known as Trojans, by conducting research and developing technology to detect these attacks in a completed AI system. By building a detection...
Superconductor electronics promise to enable high-speed, wideband digital signals processing and energy-efficient, high-performance computing forthe U.S. Intelligence Community. The SuperTools program is developing tools to allow design and simulation of digital superconductor electronic circuits for these applications. Superconducting electro...
The SuperCables program aims to develop high–data rate and low-power data egress solutions for cryogenic electronics to help meet the U.S. Intelligence Community’s increasing need for energy efficient electronics and sensitive detection systems. The SuperCables program began in June of 2019, with the goal to develop an optical fiber alternative...
Standoff chemical detection is a ubiquitous need across the Intelligence Community for applications ranging from forensic crime scene analysis, to border and facility protection, to stockpile and production monitoring. The SILMARILS program aimed to develop a portable system for accurate real-time standoff detection and identification of trace...
The SCITE program aimed to advance the U.S. Intelligence Community’s ability to detect potential insider threats Insider threats are individuals with privileged access within an organization who are, or intend to be, engaged in malicious behaviors such as espionage, sabotage and/or violence. Current practice in insider threat detection relies on ...
The RAVEN program seeks to develop technology that will ensure the manufacturing quality of integrated circuits used in advanced computing and communications technologies. The RAVEN program aims to develop a prototype analysis tool for acquiring images from all layers in a 1 cm2 area of a 14 nm integrated circuit, within 25 days. The semiconductor ...
QEO seeks to harness quantum effects required to enhance quantum annealing solutions to hard combinatorial optimization problems. The physics underlying quantum enhancement will be corroborated by design and demonstration of research-scale annealing test beds comprised of novel superconducting qubits, architectures, and operating procedures. All wo...
