On January 7, 2026 ODNI Principal Deputy Director Aaron Lukas joined IARPA to kick off our Proposers' Day in Rockville, MD. At this successful event -attended by more than 550 registrants from government, tech industry, small business, and academia -IARPA introduced five new AI-focused research efforts to...
Proposers' Day registration The Intelligence Community (IC) needs to accelerate the delivery of essential technologies to meet the nation’s most pressing national security challenges. The Emerging Technology Accelerator effort seeks to create new IC technology advantage by bridging the technical gap between emerging solutions and...
MOVES seeks create algorithms that aid clinicians in making diagnoses of a small set of neurological conditions using less than ideal or challenging video that may be taken from non-clinical angles and which may also include obstructed views and fully clothed subjects. This effort aims to test the feasibility of a long-term goal: to...
LocUS will improve the geolocation capabilities of the Intelligence Community (IC) considerably beyond imagery-only methods and thereby increase the volume of content that can be accurately geolocated. This program will increase analysts’ ability to rapidly and accurately determine where a video clip was...
Novel and low-frequency terms (e.g., newly coined slang, jargon, coded language and undefined acronyms) present a persistent challenge for the analysis of multilingual text and speech by analysts and data scientists. Language changes quickly and can be rapidly adapted to evade detection. Decipher will compress the discovery cycle by enabling the...
COSMIC will allow the Intelligence Community to integrate temporally relevant geospatial information and imagery to answer key questions. The aim of the COSMIC program is to formulate a methodology to leverage commercial remote sensing technologies and open-source geolocation information to generate pseudo-persistent data (PPD). This...
ARCADE seeks to accelerate electrical circuit design within the Intelligence Community to enable faster response to emerging national security threats at an unprecedented level of speed, reliability, and innovation. ARCADE (Artificial Reasoning for Circuit Automation and...
The AGILE program seeks innovative, energy-efficient, and reliable computer architectures that can address the Intelligence Community’s large-scale data-analytic applications, as well as other classes of data intensive applications. AGILE offers the potential to enable a predictive analysis of...
On May 23rd, 2025, the White House published Executive Order (E.O.) 14303, Restoring Gold Standard Science. IARPA has published its implementation plan and enthusiastically supports it. The executive order definition of Gold Standard Science means science conducted in a manner that adheres to the following nine tenets:...
End-Gen BAA End-Gen proposes a program seeking to develop novel methods of arbitrary generative waveforms, enabling the intelligence community, and wider USG, to more easily and cheaply create wireless information exchange protocols without costly, delayed human development cycles....
CIRCE PRIME SUBS Cognitive and cyber skills surveys, plus two 1-hour cyber tasks 34 participants on cyber task with threatened loss of resources Surveys and skills data; cyber activity, Splunk logs and session data Link to Data Set Link to Data Set Cover Sheet Cognitive and cyber skills surveys, plus two...
CIRCE PRIME SUBS Cognitive and cyber skills surveys, plus two 1-hour cyber tasks 34 participants on cyber task with threatened loss of resources Surveys and skills data; cyber activity, Splunk logs and session data Link to Data Set Link to Data Set Cover Sheet Cognitive and cyber skills surveys, plus two...
The demand to solve increasingly complex problems is accelerating beyond the capabilities of traditional computing approaches. Quantum computing promises to revolutionize a host of industries by enabling rapid solutions to complex problems that are currently intractable for more traditional – or classical – computers....
The demand to solve increasingly complex problems is accelerating beyond the capabilities of traditional computing approaches. Quantum computing promises to revolutionize a host of industries by enabling rapid solutions to complex problems that are currently intractable for more traditional – or classical – computers....
The Biomaterial Structural Analyses for Use Recognition and Understanding Synthesis (B-SAURUS) program will enhance the Intelligence Community’s (IC’s) capability to secure supply chains, identify counterfeits, and combat illegal activities associated with illicit narcotics. B-SAURUS will establish new reverse engineering...
SIGNAL Magazine - An Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) program aimed at protecting artificial intelligence (AI) systems from Trojan attacks is affecting related science before the program is even complete, according to the program...
Enjoy this sneak peak of IARPA: Disbelief to Doubt Episode 4! In this upcoming episode of Disbelief to Doubt we speak with former Program Manager Michael Di Rosa and explore how quantum computing differs from classical computing approaches, how this technology may eventually change the world, and how IARPA has been at the...
Waveforms like Wi-Fi, 4G/5G, and Bluetooth satisfy the general population’s basic wireless communication and information sharing needs, but the static nature of these fixed waveforms is vulnerable to instability. Decades often pass between updated versions of wireless protocols. The ability to quickly conduct point to...
National security missions need to generate, store, use, transmit, and receive information and data both in secure facilities and “in the wild.” Waveforms are often used as the method for the transmission and reception of data generated in these types of missions. The importance of waveform design is shown by the...
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...
