Tag Archives: IARPA

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received a follow-on contract to continue developing a biothreat detection tool for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Defense Magazine reported Monday.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has selected Perspecta's research arm to develop a multiphase mechanism for detecting Trojan virus that is designed to infiltrate artificial intelligence-based systems

Andrew Borene, managing director for the U.S. public sector at endpoint security company Cybereason, has been named to the executive board of the National Defense Industrial Association’s special operations and low-intensity conflict division. He will also chair NDIA’s industry outreach committee.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has partnered with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to identify new approaches to defend the artificial intelligence training pipeline against malware.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will formally introduce a program at an upcoming virtual meeting that seeks to explore methods to automate the detection and characterization of radio frequency anomalies. IARPA is scheduled to host the Proposers' Day for its Securing Compartmented Information with Smart Radio Systems initiative on Thursday, according to an Aug. 5 presolicitation notice.

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary is developing a novel coronavirus detection kit through the use of a tool originally designed to detect malicious threats in network traffic.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to provide seedling concepts across five technology areas to aid in the fight against COVID-19.

A Signature Science-led team will help the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity further develop software for screening short DNA sequence patterns during the third phase of IARPA's Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats program.

Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the company is combining Dynetics with its Leidos Innovation Center and has not lost any of the top 50 Dynetics employees since the Reston, Va.-based technology services contractor closed the acquisition in late January, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

Block MEMS has secured a $5.5M contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to continue working on a technology designed to detect chemical warfare agents, illegal drugs and explosives.

Galois has received a five-year, $15.2M contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a software development platform to facilitate secure computation by public and private sector programmers who are not particularly skilled in cryptography.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a research initiative that aims to build programming languages and tools that will enable processing of encrypted data.

Charles River Analytics has received funds in the amount of $4.5M to support a reasoning testing project in support of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is calling on industry to provide feedback on the agency’s Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique program. 

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a request for information for vendors that could assist the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in the collection of data from multi-camera video networks.