IARPA: Office of Incisive Analysis: BAA-12-01

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity - IARPA - invests in high-risk, high-payoff research. IA programs are in diverse technical disciplines, but have common features: (a) Create technologies that can earn the trust of the analyst user by providing the reasoning for results; (b) Address data uncertainty and provenance explicitly. Must demonstrate that their proposed effort has the potential to make revolutionary, rather than incremental, improvements to intelligence capabilities. Topics of interest include:
- Understanding how knowledge and ideas are transmitted and change within roups, 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 non-textual 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;
Funding period of 12 months; no stated monetary funding amounts.
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