IARPA Program Managers develop new concepts to address an IC (Intelligence Community) problem, then manage the research from start to finish. They chart the course for their program, which includes: Identifying goals and objectives Developing rigorous test and evaluation criteria Specifying short- and long-term milestones to gauge the health of th...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the agencies and disciplines in the Intelligence Community (IC). IARPA’s mission is to push the boundaries of science to develop solutions that empower the IC to do its work better and more...
Naturally occurring biological threats are an age-old problem that have vexed and terrorized societies for centuries. From the Black Death pandemic in the mid-1300s, to COVID-19's global danger today, these calamities, which killed millions, are a grave reminder that humanity has always faced an unrelenting and ever-evolving microbial threat,...
The purpose of the ARTS Program is to develop novel systems that will modify spontaneous speech in real-time to protect an individual’s privacy against threats like speaker identification tools and forensic speech analysis. The ARTS program was formulated with the goal of developing new speech modification technologies that will...
The amount of digital data we consume daily can often feel overwhelming. More data is coming at us than ever before in the form of emails, text messages, and social media feeds. With such an avalanche of information, it is often hard to distinguish between what’s important and what can be ignored. A...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) seeks information regarding molecular-scale data storage and archiving. IARPA is investigating faster, better, cheaper ways to store data. In particular, IARPA seeks to understand the current technological landscape for writing and reading data using DNA as the storage media. IARPA also...
ReSCIND BAA Release The 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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
