The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has set up CIA Labs, a research and development project aimed at allowing agents to develop cutting-edge technology in-house — and even profit from their creations.
According to the CIA Labs Website, it will “conduct multidisciplinary research, development, testing, and engineering to address new challenges; adapt, improve, or accelerate the production of existing solutions; and solve persistent scientific and technological problems in new ways.”
The research areas include:
- advanced materials and manufacturing;
- artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics;
- bioscience and biotechnology;
- distributed ledger/blockchain-enabled technologies;
- virtual and augmented reality;
- high performance and quantum computing;
- future wireless and telecommunications technologies; and
- robotic, autonomous, and human interface systems.
Here’s How You Can Participate
CIA Labs is actively looking at collaboration with other federal labs and academia and is interested in outreach from such partners. You may submit your ideas for partnerships and consortium research projects via this form.
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