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....
IARPA is implementing the research security policy of National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33)[1]. This policy directs federal sponsors of research and development (R&D) to assess whether participants in proposed R&D have potential foreign conflicts of interest or conflicts of commitment that pose risks to the security of the...
The End-Gen program seeks to develop generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and machine learning (ML) frameworks capable of consuming input mission objectives in order to output mission waveforms. These novel communications waveforms are generated within two different environments: 1) Through non-foundational...
In this episode of Disbelief to Doubt we continue our conversation previously recorded with former IARPA Director Dr. Jason Matheny, who served as IARPA director from 2015 through 2018. In part two of this two-part interview we discuss the impact of IARPA's mission on national security and science, overcoming the challenges of technology adoption, ...
Dr. William Benard joined IARPA in May 2024 as the Office Director for Collection Research. His primary research interests are: the science of design; distributed sensing; design and manufacture of complex products; additive manufacturing; and semiconductor materials, devices, and architectures. Prior to arriving at IARPA,...
In this episode of Disbelief to Doubt we turn back the clock to 2018 and sit down with former IARPA Director Dr. Jason Matheny who served as IARPA director from 2015 through 2018. In part one of this two-part interview we discuss a wide range of topics, including Jason's early career in science, how being a "force multiplier" drew him to IARPA,...
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 aimed at modifying spontaneous speech in near real-time to protect a speaker’s...
SOLSTICE BAA The SOLSTICE program aims to develop novel solar-powered and hybrid solar-powered systems with significantly higher power density than existing technologies. These systems will be capable of maintaining performance over their mission lifetime in challenging remote applications,...
Enjoy this preview of IARPA: Disbelief to Doubt Episode 2! In this retrospective episode, you'll hear former IARPA Director Dr. Jason Matheny talk about what it means to be a force multiplier as an IARPA program manager and discuss lessons learned over a decade of IARPA research breakthroughs. Part 1 drops on November 4th followed by Part 2 on...
In Part 2 of our premiere episode of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's (IARPA) new podcast series, we continue our conversation with former Director Catherine Marsh to discuss IARPA's process for funding high-risk/high reward research, what differentiates IARPA's mission from that of DARPA's, how Program Managers are empowered ...
In Part 1 of the premiere episode of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's (IARPA) new podcast series, we sit down with former Director Catherine Marsh to discuss IARPA's origin story and the world events that led to her joining government service and set her on a path to leading what the New York Times has heralded as "one of the ...
Dr. Tom Schneider joined IARPA in August 2023. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Schneider focuses on areas of scientific research that include sensor systems, biosecurity, and chemical and biological defense. He is currently the Program Manager for the B24IC-targeted seedling effort which aims to develop new methods...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) seeks information regarding methodologies capable of arbitrary generation of communication waveforms in a wide variety of propagation media. Point-to-point communications are at the heart of innumerable mission spaces spanning a host of different objectives. At present, most...
Solar energy conversion is a time-tested method to provide power to electrical devices in remote locations where the electrical grid is not available, including on land, under water, and in space. Because of the diffuse nature of sunlight and the current efficiency of existing solar photovoltaic (PV) devices, only a...
Video LINCS BAA The Video LINCS program aims to develop novel capabilities to autonomously re-identify objects across diverse video sensor collections and map all objects to a common reference frame. The goal of the Video LINCS program, it to develop re-identification (reID) algorithms to autonomously associate objects across...
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...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) seeks information regarding innovative signal processing algorithms and sensing approaches used to characterize the D-region of the ionosphere (60–90 km). IARPA seeks to characterize and better understand the D-region and the interaction of this region of the ionosphere with...
Get a sneak peek of Disbelief to Doubt Episode 1! In this episode, you'll learn IARPA's origin story and hear about former Director Dr. Catherine Marsh's "leap of faith" into government service. Full episode coming...
DNI.gov Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines today issued the following statement: “On behalf of the Intelligence Community (IC), I am excited to welcome Dr. Richard ‘Rick’ Muller as the Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). Dr. Muller takes the helm of IARPA after heading the...
Dr. Mickey Batson joined IARPA in March 2024. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Batson focuses on areas of scientific research that includes electromagnetics, ionosphere geophysics, ionosphere chemistry, and plasma physics. He is presently leading IARPA's efforts on the EQuAL-P program that aims to realize...
