Government and PolicyUS intelligence seeks to outfit smart clothes with clandestine cameras, sensors & microphonesTim Hinchliffe5 months ago9.11KThe US Intelligence Community is requesting information on how to develop comfortable smart clothes that can "sense, process, and communicate...
Government and PolicyMilitary TechnologyIARPA seeks AI teams to both attribute & anonymize authorship by identifying, removing writers’ ‘linguistic fingerprints’ from textTim Hinchliffe6 months ago9.45KThe Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is holding a proposers' day for an upcoming research program aimed at both...
Government and PolicyMilitary Technology‘IoT devices are a growing source of data that can be collected to learn intent’: IARPA directorTim Hinchliffe7 months ago5.66KThe Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is looking to IoT devices as a growing source of data collection for...
TechnologyDNA barcodes can trace anything along the supply chain, including people, with precise data recoveryTim Hinchliffe1 year ago8.33KMicrobial spores grown in labs are programmed with unique DNA barcodes that can allow whoever uses them to tag and...
Social MediaTechnologyIntel agency awards contract to company that harvests social media text, dataTim Hinchliffe3 years ago8.43KIARPA awards a research contract for extracting data from text to Raytheon BBN, which harvests the text of social media...
ScienceTechnologyWebDARPA, IARPA scientist named 1st permanent director of Space Development AgencyTim Hinchliffe3 years ago5.26KThe Department of Defense appoints a former DARPA and IARPA scientist as the first permanent director of the new Space...
TechnologyUS intelligence wants a super quiet spy drone for 10-pound payloads, military useTim Hinchliffe3 years ago5.9KUS spy agency IARPA is looking to build a super quiet spy drone that can deliver a 10 pound payload...
TechnologySpy agencies want to accurately ID people from drones and rooftopsTim Hinchliffe3 years ago4.08KCombining facial and body recognition from above, spy agencies are researching how to identify people at long range from drones...
TechnologyUS intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from spaceTim Hinchliffe3 years ago5.11KThe US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide "anthropogenic activities" such as construction...
TechnologyGovt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the futureTim Hinchliffe3 years ago5.67KHow many missile test events will North Korea conduct in August 2019? Will there be a locally-transmitted case of the Zika...
TechnologyEvery move you make IARPA will be watching youTim Hinchliffe3 years ago3.42KOn the surface, IARPA's Activities in Extended Video (ActEV) Prize Challenge looks to improve efficiency, so camera operators can quickly...
ScienceIARPA sets challenge to fact-check fact-checking methodsTim Hinchliffe3 years ago3.92KFact-checking is a good thing, but who fact-checks the fact-checkers' methodologies? How do we know if the fact-checking methods actually...
TechnologyNature is intelligent: Pentagon looks to insects for AI biomimicry designTim Hinchliffe3 years ago10.9KWhether you believe in intelligent design or not, the Pentagon's research and funding arm believes in it -- so much...
TechnologyIARPA launches Proteos program for human identification using shedded skinTim Hinchliffe4 years ago9.88KUnder the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, IARPA announces the launch of the Proteos Program for human identification...
TechnologyIARPA’s Thor program throws the hammer down on biometric attack detectionTim Hinchliffe4 years ago10.5KIn Norse mythology, the hammer-wielding god of thunder Thor and his rival Loki are considerable adversaries, but for the Intelligence Advanced...
TechnologyUS intelligence researching DNA for exabytes of data storageTim Hinchliffe4 years ago10.4KLike spiraling serpents entwined in symbiosis; sequential strands of DNA continue to bring to light new breakthroughs in technology with...