US intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from space
The US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide "anthropogenic activities" such as construction...
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Govt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the future
How many missile test events will North Korea conduct in August 2019? Will there be a locally-transmitted case of the Zika...
Every move you make IARPA will be watching you
On the surface, IARPA's Activities in Extended Video (ActEV) Prize Challenge looks to improve efficiency, so camera operators can quickly...
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IARPA sets challenge to fact-check fact-checking methods
Fact-checking is a good thing, but who fact-checks the fact-checkers' methodologies? How do we know if the fact-checking methods actually...
Nature is intelligent: Pentagon looks to insects for AI biomimicry design
Whether you believe in intelligent design or not, the Pentagon's research and funding arm believes in it -- so much...
IARPA launches Proteos program for human identification using shedded skin
Under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, IARPA announces the launch of the Proteos Program for human identification...
IARPA’s Thor program throws the hammer down on biometric attack detection
In Norse mythology, the hammer-wielding god of thunder Thor and his rival Loki are considerable adversaries, but for the Intelligence Advanced...
US intelligence researching DNA for exabytes of data storage
Like spiraling serpents entwined in symbiosis; sequential strands of DNA continue to bring to light new breakthroughs in technology with...
