Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) - Office of Safe and Secure Operations Office Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

This BAA solicits research to enhance mission performance while assuring the security of information at rest and in motion. Examples include:
- Computational methods based on architectures other than digital Turing machines whose attributes are matched to efficient or secure solution of intelligence problems. (e.g. optical, analog, biological, brain-based, quantum, or hybrid computing systems.)
- New approaches to secure transmission of information using optical, electromagnetic, digital packet, chemical, or biological signals. This includes synchronous and asynchronous communications, bandwidth-constrained digital transmission, and triage of large data flows.
- Detection, classification, and mitigation of attempts by adversaries to manipulate electronic data or networked infrastructure.
- Resiliency: approaches to operating securely with imperfect equipment and a compromised network.
Ideas that substantially enhance the safety or security with which information is collected, stored, analyzed, and disseminated are also encouraged, even if they do not explicitly involve information technology. This announcement seeks research ideas for topics that are not addressed by emerging or ongoing IARPA programs or other published IARPA 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.