Public Intelligence

IARPA Blackbook Overview

• Dr. Lisa Porter, Director, IARPA
• 12 pages
• Unclassified
• May 2008

The Three Strategic Thrusts (Offices)

• Smart Collection: dramatically improve the value of collected data
  • Innovative modeling and analysis approaches to identify where to look and what to collect
  • Novel approaches to access
• Incisive Analysis: maximizing insight from the information we collect, in a timely fashion
  • Advanced tools and techniques that can handle large volumes of multiple and disparate sources of information
  • Innovative approaches (e.g., using virtual worlds, shared workspaces) that dramatically improve the productivity of analysts
  • Methods that incorporate socio-cultural and linguistic factors into the analytic process
• Safe and Secure Operations: countering new capabilities of our adversaries that could threaten our ability to operate effectively in a networked world
  • Assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our cyber systems
  • Quantum information science and technology

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Quantum Science and Information Technology

• Major milestones:
  • Demonstrate interacting logical qubits
  • Execute quantum circuits with thousands of operations
  • Optimize error correction codes for different qubit types
• A scientific-scale quantum computer
  • Has several logical qubits & sustains several thousands of operations
  • Will let us ask and answer fundamental questions about quantum computing
  • Should inspire new quantum applications
• Investment areas:
  • Development of robust qubit technology
• Trapped ions, neutral atoms, photons, Josephson junctions, quantum dots, etc.
• Faster and more accurate qubit initialization, measurement & manipulation, and qubit-qubit interactions
• Supporting technologies
• Better materials, device fabrication, detectors, etc.

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