Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity - Goals

Goals

"IARPA's mission to invest in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries."

FBI National Press Release, 2009

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 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.

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