Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) -- U.S. Intelligence's Answer To The U.S. Military's DARPA?

Director of National Intelligence Adm. Dennis C. Blair speaks at a dedication for the new building of the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Monday at M-Square, the University of Maryland's Research Park, where other national security tenants are clustered. The 125,000-square-foot facility will be completed in late 2009. (Baltimore Sun photo by Amy Davis / April 27, 2009)

Clandestine Defense Hub Prepares To Open At UM -- Baltimore Sun

Research site to develop tools to fight future threats

The projects to be launched at a top-secret University of Maryland research center would make "Q" - James Bond's owlish gadget-meister - blink with tears of envy.

In the coming months, teams of the nation's top theoretical mathematicians, behavioral scientists, software engineers and futurists will assemble to figure out how to make U.S. intelligence better, faster and more efficient.

Aston Martins with twin machine guns and ejector seats? Flamethrower bagpipes? Jet packs? The missile-firing leg cast?

Beyond that. Way beyond that.

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My Comment: I cannot help but feel that this is just DARPA, but customed made to service the U.S. Intelligence Community. If they get the budget, I will expect (like DARPA) unique research projects being developed and implemented by IARPA .... developments that (unfortunately) we will not know about until many years later.