CORE3D developed a methodology for the automated creation of dimensionally-accurate, realistic-looking, lightweight 3-D models from satellite imagery to provide situational awareness essential to military, humanitarian, and intelligence mission planning. Timely, spatially-accurate, and realistic models are essential for mission planning, intelligen...
UC Santa Cruz - Cryptographic techniques for computing have evolved rapidly over the past decade. Many advanced techniques are gaining traction in real-world applications, due in large part to the rise of decentralized cryptocurrencies and blockchains. ... The $14.7 million project is funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity ...
Cyber-attacks evolve in a phased approach. Detection typically occurs in the later phases of an attack, and analysis often occurs post-mortem to investigate and discover indicators from earlier phases. Observations of earlier attack phases, such as target reconnaissance, planning, and delivery, may enable warning of significant cyber events prior t...
Power and cooling for large-scale computing systems are rapidly becoming unmanageable problems for the enterprises which depend on them. The trend towards large, centralized computing facilities to house supercomputers, data centers, and special purpose computers continues to grow, driven by cloud computing, support of mobile devices, Internet traf...
The BETTER program aims to dramatically compress the information discovery cycle for Intelligence Community analysts by designing systems that extract personalized, mission-relevant semantic information from text and leverage this information to substantially improve search capabilities Massive volumes of multilingual, unstructured text present an ...
The Amon-Hen program seeks innovative, low-cost approaches for passive, ground-based interferometric imaging of GEO satellites. The program is envisioned as a 33-month effort that is intended to begin by March2018. Phase 1 will last for a period of 15 months and will focus on the development of component technologies, physics-based system modeling ...
Nextgov - The intelligence community is working to build biometric identification systems that can single out individuals from hundreds of yards away or more, a feat that’s virtually impossible using the technology that exists today. Ultimately, the tech would let spy agencies rapidly identify people using cameras deployed on far off rooftops an...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today a multi-year research effort called the Homomorphic Encryption Computing Techniques with Overhead Reduction (HECTOR) program. Today’s computing systems and data services are constrained by a small cryptographic...
IARPA has laid the groundwork for two programs focused on ways to overcome adversarial machine learning and prevent adversaries from using AI tools against users. Read More...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today award of Phase 2 of the Molecular Analyzer for Efficient Gas-Phase Low-Power Interrogation program research contracts. Read More...
The Atlantic - ...In 2005, [Philip] Tetlock published his results, and they caught the attention of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, a government organization that supports research on the U.S. intelligence community’s most difficult challenges. In 2011, IARPA launched a four-year prediction tournament in which fi...
Axios - Four years ago, a team of researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania wowed the U.S. intelligence community by producing a superior new way to forecast geopolitical events. They were dubbed the "Superforecasters." Driving the news: At a time the science of professional prognostication is sorely battered, the radical innovation arm...
GCN - With the rise of adversarial AI, government researchers are looking for ways to automatically inspect artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to see if they've been tampered with. [...] The Army Research Office and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity are investigating techniques to spot and stop these ...
Biometric Update - The U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is planning a pair of programs to prevent training data from being maliciously tampered with to turn artificial intelligence systems against their users.... One project, Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI), seeks to create a warning system f...
Chemical and Engineering News - For decades, theoretical physicists and computer scientists have been compiling evidence that quantum computers will eventually leave our current top-of-the-line supercomputers in the dust…. Quantum computers have been limited to simple problems because of their hardware. The basic elements of quantum c...
Forbes - What if you could be warned about a scam email even before it arrived in your inbox? And what if you could be told exactly what it would say and what it would do to you and your computer? Back in 2015, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a research unit within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, today announced the UG2+ Prize Challenge, a competition that leverages a unique computer vision dataset of unmanned aerial vehicle, glider, and ground (UG2) data. Read More...
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today the launch of the Ithildin program to develop new sorbent capabilities for sample collection, large area protection, and “smart” filters. Read More...
Federal News Network - The intelligence community, like every other federal and private sector organization, suffers from the common employee disease of “linkclickitis.” It’s described by doctors as a condition where the employee has an uncontrollable urge to press the left button on the mouse while hovering over a link sent by email. Bu...
fedscoop - What’s the best method for determining whether or not someone is trustworthy? Given the choice, should we trust a thorough background check, a polygraph, or a simple gut-check? These questions take on special significance in an era when the trustworthiness of the media, public figures and more is increasingly fraught....
