Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is a United States
United States
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 research agency under the Director of National Intelligence's responsibility. In January 2008, Lisa Porter
Lisa Porter
Lisa J. Porter is the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Prior to this position, she was the Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research at NASA and a senior scientist in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

, an administrator at NASA with experience at DARPA, was appointed director of the activity formed in 2006 from the National Security Agency
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...

's Disruptive Technology Office
Disruptive Technology Office
The Disruptive Technology Office is a funding agency within the United States Intelligence Community. It was until known as Advanced Research and Development Activity ....

 (DTO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...

’s National Technology Alliance and the Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...

’s Intelligence Technology Innovation Center.

Goals

The Director of National Intelligence in a September 2006 speech stated that the goal of the agency
is to conduct research that
  • Cuts across multiple IC
    United States Intelligence Community
    The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the...

     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.


Program offices

IARPA is divided into three program offices, Smart Collection, Incisive Analysis, and Safe & Secure Operations. The goal of the Office of Smart Collection is to "dramatically improve the value of collected data from all sources." The Office of Incisive Analysis exists to "maximize insight from the information we collect, in a timely fashion." IARPA's third division, the Office of Safe & Secure Operations, exists to "counter new capabilities implemented by our adversaries that would threaten our ability to operate freely and effectively in a networked world."

The Metaphor Program

The Metaphor Program is a two-phase project designed to first develop automated techniques for recognizing, defining and categorizing linguistic metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...

s and then use that information to characterize differing cultural perspectives. The Program is headed by Heather McCallum-Bayliss. On May 2011, IARPA issued an open solicitation for private sector parties to participate in the Program.

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