Cyberattacks by actors targeting individuals, the private sector, local and state governments, and the federal government, are a pervasive problem that often has cybersecurity experts playing whack-a-mole. From holding online individual or business accounts for ransom, to stealing sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from millions of...
REASON BAA Release REASON aims to develop novel technologies that will enable intelligence analysts to substantially improve the evidence and reasoning in draft analytic reports. Intelligence analysts sort through huge amounts of often uncertain and conflicting information as they strive to answer intelligence questions. REASON will assist and...
Dr. Reuven Meth joined IARPA in February 2023. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Meth focuses on areas of scientific research that include computer vision, image/video understanding, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining IARPA, Dr. Meth worked for SAIC from 2014 to 2023, providing Scientific Engineering and Technical A...
Government Matters - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests federal funding into high-risk, high-reward projects to address challenges facing the intelligence community.
In 2022, the United States set a grim record with the deaths of over 110,000 Americans from drug overdoses—a record mainly attributed to the increase of illegal fentanyl. And for those who fentanyl hasn’t killed, it has led to addiction and destroyed lives and communities. While addiction is a serious issue with various causes, easy access to...
The Wall Street Journal - IARPA scientists are taking up the nascent field of cyber psychology to predict and counter hacker behavior. The main research organization of the U.S. intelligence community is hunting for ways to use psychological theories to thwart cyberattacks. Scientists at IARPA are studying how to understand and predict hacker...
Every day, the Intelligence Community (IC) labors to provide policymakers with insightful analysis to answer and inform on some of the toughest national security questions and issues. More often than not, the IC is able to provide ground-truth on seemingly murky problems that may otherwise not be discovered or explained. However, even...
ELQ BAA Release 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 gre...
FedScoop - The intelligence community’s key research hub is launching a new program to build tools that exploit recent advances in artificial intelligence to ultimately help intel analysts write their reports with stronger evidence and better reasoning.
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...
The IARPA ReSCIND program aims to improve cybersecurity by developing a new set of cyberpsychology-informed defenses that leverage attacker’s human limitations, such as innate decision-making biases and cognitive vulnerabilities. ReSCIND seeks to develop novel methods to: 1) identify and model human limitations or cognitive biases relevant to cyb...
Analysts sort through huge amounts of often uncertain and conflicting information as they strive to answer intelligence questions. REASON will facilitate analysts’ work by pointing them to key pieces of evidence beyond what they have already considered and helping them determine which alternative explanation has the strongest support. It will do ...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Director, Dr. Catherine Marsh, recently returned to her alma mater, Brown University, to visit with students and faculty, Oct. 18.
PICARD BAA Release The IARPA PICARD program intends to develop a fieldable sensing platform for the rapid identification of aerosol particles in plumes. This platform will address both point detection (in situ) and standoff detection capabilities that focus on the complexity of aerosols with non-uniform sizes, structures, and chemical composition a...
WIRED - The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger. The effort was announced in 2017 by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In a livestreamed upda...
SIGNAL - Over the past five years, IARPA has launched 10 new bio-focused programs, a threefold increase compared to IARPA’s first decade of existence. This includes the Finding Engineering Linked Indicators (FELIX) program, which contributed to the first IC public statement that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was not genetically engineered as well as ...
DNI.gov - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory today announced the launch of a program to engineer innovative, new computer architec...
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, su...
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...
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 start of a multi-year research effort to produce new methods for detecting low-dose ionizing radiation exposure.
