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Got a concept for cutting-edge spy tech? Jason Matheny, who was named director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in August, wants your great ideas. The agency, established in 2006, invests in high-risk, high-payoff research to solve problems faced by the U.S. intelligence community. Partly due to Matheny's work, the agency is tapping resources outside of government, including crowdsourcing ideas from the general public.
Matheny joined IARPA in 2009 after a career in both academia—Oxford University, Princeton University, and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory—and the startup world. He previously headed IARPA's comically named Office for Anticipating Surprise—which develops new forecasting capabilities—and served as program manager of Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE), an outfit that crowdsourced forecasts from more than 20,000 people on various geopolitical issues. He also worked at the agency's Office of Incisive Analysis, which analyzes data sets.
How would you surprise him?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:25AM
invests in high-risk, high-payoff research to solve problems faced by the U.S. intelligence community.
Perhaps we need a surprising technology that adheres to the law.
Presumably we have seen some of those high risks come to fruition, and we've seen very little in the way of a reward. I suspect that more and more people are going to be reluctant to hand the government yet another club to use against their fellow citizens.
In a way its too bad, because those agencies do have a mission to gather intelligence, just like every other nation. The other nation's citizens are probably willing to help their government play catch up, while many in the US think enough is enough.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.