Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is a United States 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 [ [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2007-05-31-iarpa-spy-tools_N.htm New IARPA agency developing spy tools] ," USA Today] 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. [" [http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/SIGNAL_Article_Template.asp?articleid=1399 Igniting a Technical Renaissance] ," Maryann Lawlor, Signal, October 2007]

The Director of National Intelligence in a September 2006 speech stated that the goal of the agency [" [http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2006/intell-060925-dni01.htm Remarks by the Director of National Intelligence Ambassador John D. Negroponte] ," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, September 25, 2006] 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.

ee also

*Disruptive Technology Office
*DARPA
*Biometrics
*Biometric passport
*Fingerprint recognition
*List of United States federal agencies
*Manhunt
*Manhunt (law enforcement)
*Manhunt (Military)
*Surveillance
*Telebiometrics

References

External links

* [http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=1561 University of Maryland Press Release] December 7 2007
* [http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-04/st_alphageek Introducing Iarpa: It's Like Darpa, But for Spies] Wired (magazine) March 24 2008
* [http://spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6208 Q & A With DARPA Director Lisa Porter] IEEE Spectrum May 1 2008
* [https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=4a9f5f34b6cf627e247ca91920de5bcf&tab=core&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck= National Intelligence Community Enterprise Cyber Assurance Program (NICECAP)]