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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Proteos is developing protein-based forensic approaches to augment DNA identification methodologies and provide an alternative when DNA fails in challenging forensic cases. DNA is widely used for forensic identification, but analysis of DNA can fail in some cases due to degradation, the presence of multiple contributors,...
The Odin program is developing biometric presentation attack detection technologies to help the government better detect when someone is attempting to hide their identity by spoofing biometric access control or authentication systems. Biometrics are used by the U.S. government to verify identities and locate persons of interest. However, biometric...
The MOSAIC program aimed to advance the Intelligence Community’s ability to evaluate an individual’s psychological drivers, cognitive abilities, and mental resilience to predict their job performance. The Intelligence Community (IC) evaluates members of its workforce periodically throughout their career. Current tools...
The MIST program seeks to use sequence-controlled polymers (e.g., DNA) as the basis for deployable digital information storage technologies. These technologies can eventually scale into the exabyte regime and beyond with reduced physical footprint, power, and cost requirements relative to conventional storage technologies. If successful, this...
The MICrONS program aimed to close the performance gap between human analysts and automated pattern recognition systems by reverse-engineering the algorithms of the brain The human brain has the remarkable ability to learn patterns from small amounts of data and then recognize novel instances of those...
The MATERIAL program aims to revolutionize the way the IC consumes foreign language information, by turning multilingual text and speech media into useable intelligence information for analysts, regardless of their language expertise. A large portion of the ever-increasing amounts of text, audio, and video data produced in today’s...
The MAEGLIN program aims to develop an ultra-low power chemical analysis system for remote, unattended detection of chemicals in order to provide the Intelligence Community with capabilities in persistent environmental monitoring to detect emissions that indicate illicit activity such as manufacturing of weapons, narcotics, toxins and...
The LogiQ program aims to advance quantum computing by creating an error-corrected logical qubit, a construct that encodes quantum information into a block of many imperfect physical qubits in a specialized way that, ideally, enhances the performance of the block relative to its constituents. Demonstrations of logical qubits by the...
The need for increasingly sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence purposes requires a maturation of the technology to include the need for quiet UAVs. The Little Horned Owl program is developing ultra-quiet mini UAVs (defined as having a take-off weight of 55 pounds or less) to further enable critical intelligence and...
The Janus program dramatically improved the performance of facial recognition software by increasing the speed and accuracy of identity matching. This was achieved not only for videos and images with properly lit, well-posed frontal facial images, but also when the illumination, observation angle, and facial expressions varied widely, such as in...
The Ithildin program aimed to develop a broad toolkit of new sorbent capabilities – materials that selectively capture chemicals from the environment – for the Intelligence Community enabling improved sample collection, large area protection, and “smart” filters capabilities. Sorbent materials in use today trap all impinging...
HFGeo developed a capability that dramatically improved the USG ability to geolocate and characterize highfrequency (HF) emitters HF communications are very attractive as their signals can propagate over continental distances by “bouncing” off the Earth’s ionosphere. Yet, the geolocation of transmitted HF signals is challenging because they a...
The HFC program developed and tested hybrid geopolitical forecasting systems, which integrated human and machine forecasting components to create accurate, flexible, and scalable forecasting capabilities. Intelligence analysts are faced with the daunting task of developing intellectually rigorous, well-supported assessments of geopolitical events...
The Fun GCAT is developing methods to rapidly assess the function of DNA sequences to determine if they pose a threat. Used to automatically process large datasets or to supplement subject matter expert review, Fun GCAT technology will enable improved detection of bio-error or bio-terror. Current screening methods to flag dangerous DNA sequences...
The FELIX program aims to augment and improve current biodetection and biosurveillance capabilities by developing new computational and experimental tools for detection of engineered biological systems. New biotechnologies have enabled the development of diverse biological systems, with potential benefits ranging from new vaccines to...
