Semiconductor Engineering - In 2014, Markowitz had foreseen a big problem, not only for intelligence agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency, but also for other government departments, and even big tech companies. Many were generating exabytes worth of data, but the supply of data storage on that scale was becoming too scar...
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 authors’ privacy.
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 ability to explo...
IARPA is seeking information on methods, studies, findings, approaches, and appropriate metrics for characterizing the cognitive effects in cyber operations. Cyberpsychology is the emerging scientific field that integrates human behavior and decision-making into the cyber domain. Techniques currently used in online advertising, political...
SINTRA BAA Release The SINTRA program seeks to develop novel, innovative techniques to detect, track, and characterize non-trackable orbital space debris. The detection of non-trackable orbital debris would enable safer operation of valuable government and commercial space assets. SINTRA performers will focus on two task areas (TAs): developing nov...
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 as well as dispersio...
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 enhance analysts’ wor...
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...
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 significantly boost the performance of electrically small antennas (ESAs) — or antennas that are much smaller than ...
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 ...
Dr. Mark Becker joined IARPA in July 2022. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Becker focuses on topics related to privacy enhancing technologies, such as anonymous communication, secure multi-party computation, and identity management. He is presently leading IARPA's efforts on the SuperTools program that aims to develop tools th...
The IARPA SINTRA program aims to investigate the interaction of orbital debris with the surrounding space environment and drive the state of the art to detect, track, and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital space debris. Space debris poses a risk to all space missions, including those of the Intelligence Community (IC). With an average low Ea...
FedTech - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is actively working on several projects across quantum computing and neuroscience, cognitive psychology, sociology, power sources, and chemical and biological sensing, with a focus on exploring...
B24IC BAA Release Biointelligence and Biosecurity for the Intelligence Community (B24IC) program seeks to develop new capabilities, matching the wider synthetic biology and biotechnology fields, ensuring the Intelligence Community’s (IC’s) capability to meet the biointelligence and biosecurity threats of the 21st century.
SMART ePANTS BAA The SMART ePANTS program seeks to develop clothing with integrated audio, video, and geolocation sensor systems that feature the same stretchability, bendability, washability, and comfort of regular textiles. By weaving these devices directly into garments, Intelligence Community staff will be able to record information from ...
Humans have long-dreamed of flying around the world and exploring never before seen locations or remote historical sites restricted to visitors. Of course, the reality is that the ability to do this is limited by gravity, ability, time, and money. But imagine if there’s a way to overcome these limitations and have similar experiences either witho...
WIRED - A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters. SMART stands for Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique, and its goal is to “harmonize” data from many kinds of Earth-watching satellites and then task software with...
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 ...
FedScoop - The intelligence community’s primary research arm launched a new program to develop software algorithm-based systems that will fuse imagery captured from various altitudes and angles — including from traffic cameras, drones, satellites and other platforms — to build immersive, photorealistic virtual environments of unfamiliar ...
WRIVA BAA The WRIVA Program aims to develop software algorithm-based systems that can create photorealistic, navigable three-dimensional site models using a highly limited corpus of imagery, to include ground level imagery, surveillance height imagery (traffic camera), UAV altitude imagery, and Satellite imagery. Additionally, where imagery lacks m...
