Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How IARPA Is Trying To Plug Intelligence Gaps


Feds Thinking Outside The Box To Plug Intelligence Gaps -- McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — Three recent events — the foiled Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner, the Dec. 30 assassination of seven CIA officers and contractors by a Jordanian double agent in Afghanistan and the difficulties that U.S. Marines in Marjah, Afghanistan, have encountered — all have something in common: inadequate intelligence.

To lower the odds of similar troubles in the future, the government has launched a swarm of spooky, out-of-the-box research projects known collectively as the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

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My Comment: Not much meat in this article, with the exception that this new intelligence/research organization wants to do "great things".

I wish them luck.

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