The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is a United States research agency under the Director of National Intelligence's responsibility. In January 2008, Lisa Porter, an administrator at NASA with experience at DARPA, was appointed director[1] of the activity formed in 2006 from the National Security Agency's Disruptive Technology Office (DTO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s National Technology Alliance and the Central Intelligence Agency’s Intelligence Technology Innovation Center.[2]
The Director of National Intelligence in a September 2006 speech stated that the goal of the agency[3] is to conduct research that
- Cuts across multiple IC agencies;
- Targets new opportunities that lie in the white spaces between agencies;
- Provides innovations that agencies avoid because of current business models; and
- Generates revolutionary capabilities that will surprise our adversaries and help us avoid being surprised.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ New IARPA agency developing spy tools," USA Today
- ↑ "Igniting a Technical Renaissance," Maryann Lawlor, Signal, October 2007
- ↑ "Remarks by the Director of National Intelligence Ambassador John D. Negroponte," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, September 25, 2006
Further reading[]
- Weinberger, Sharon, "Spooky research cuts: US intelligence agency axes funding for work on quantum computing", Nature 459, 625 (2009), 3 June 2009
External links[]
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- University of Maryland Press Release December 7, 2007
- Introducing Iarpa: It's Like Darpa, But for Spies Wired (magazine) March 24, 2008
- Q & A With IARPA Director Lisa Porter IEEE Spectrum May 1, 2008
- National Intelligence Community Enterprise Cyber Assurance Program (NICECAP)
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