Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) - Office of Incisive Analysis Office Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

Research ideas for topics that are not addressed by emerging or ongoing IARPA programs or solicitations. It is primarily, but not solely, intended for early stage research that may lead to larger, focused programs in the future, so periods of performance will generally not exceed 12 months.  The following topics are of interest to Incisive Analysis:
- Understanding how knowledge and ideas are transmitted and change within groups, organizations, and cultures;
- Analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic data;
- Multidisciplinary approaches to assessing linguistic data sets
- Methods for measuring and improving human judgment and human reasoning
- Extraction and representation of the information in non-technical structured documents, including legal and regulatory;
- Extraction and representation of the information in the nontextual contents of documents, including figures, diagrams, and tables;
- Understanding and managing massive, dynamic data;
- Effective analysis of massive, unreliable, and diverse data;
- Assessing relevancy of new data;
- Processing noisy audio and speech
- Top-down models of visual perception and visual cognition;
- Analysis of significant societal events;
- Estimation and communication of uncertainty and risk;
- Augmented reality applied to analysis.