DARPA will have a new partner in creating creating creepy and amazing new technologies. The new Agency is called IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency). IARPA will work with the 16 different US intelligence & spy agencies to develop new technologies. DARPA was previously responsible for the creation and ideasmithing of the TIA project (total information awareness), the terrorism futures market (never operational), among other intelligence based ideas. I wonder if the creation of IARPA and DARPA will get along peacefully, with DARPA happily letting go of their TIA type projects?

Despite the creepy factor of DARPA, they have funded some really neat stuff -- for instance funding exoskelton research, or implanting chips into insects, or funding the race to develop a car that can navigate itself, and Unmanned vehicles in general. IARPA may not have the same impact on the public imagination. Due to the naturally secretive nature of the US spy programs, I doubt that we are going to hear too much about the achievements of IARPA. However, I may be wrong.

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