"IARPA": "Darpa for Spies" Takes Shape

Modeled after the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) -- which in the 1990s helped to develop unmanned aerial vehicle technology, much of which is being used now in the field to collect intelligence – the new Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Iarpa) will “work across agency boundaries, in the ‘white space’ between agencies, on activities that agencies may miss based on current business models and on ‘blue sky’ concepts too ‘distant’ for agencies consumed with current operations,” according to his 100-day plan McConnell instituted Apr. 9.
blog.wired.com...

That should get the intelligence agency conspiracy theories speculating about what "planners" are up to...

Also check out HSARPA:
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
www.hsarpabaa.com...

Woa check out this document that lists many of their homeland datamining projects:
www.dni.gov...

Explosive stuff. TIA

Folks with an interest might just want to look up Dr. Lisa Porter formerly of NASA...

Vic