The Office of the Director of National Intelligence welcomes Dr. Catherine Marsh as the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. She succeeds Dr. Stacey Dixon, who now serves as deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Read...
Dr. Steven Rieber joined IARPA in 2014. In his current assignment as a Program Manager, Dr. Rieber focuses on areas of scientific research that include forecasting and rational judgment and decision-making. He has led several IARPA programs including...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced the winners of the Open Cross Lingual Information Retrieval – OpenCLIR – prize challenge. Launched in June 2018, this challenge involved innovative approaches to retrieve information from audio and text documents, using En...
FOCUS enhanced analysis tradecraft by improving analysts’ ability to learn lessons from the past. FOCUS helped analysts correctly answer the question, “how would history have been different if actor X had instead done action Y on date Z?” Counterfactual forecasts -- statements about what would have happened if...
The aims of the VirtUE program are (a) to creatively define and develop user environments that are more dynamic, secure, auditable, transferrable, and efficient than the current offerings provided by traditional physical workstations and commercial VDI; (b) develop innovative, dynamic analytics and infrastructures that can leverage...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly applied to a variety of domains within the Intelligence Community (IC). The TrojAI program seeks to defend AI systems from intentional, malicious attacks, known as Trojans, by conducting research and developing technology to detect these attacks in a completed AI system....
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...
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 of trace...
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...
QEO seeks to harness quantum effects required to enhance quantum annealing solutions to hard combinatorial optimization problems. The physics underlying quantum enhancement will be corroborated by design and demonstration of research-scale annealing test beds comprised of novel superconducting qubits, architectures, and operating...
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...
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 to assess...
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...
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 patterns despite distortion and...
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...
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 program will...
