R&D Program Manager

IARPA is an activity within OESET. IARPA invests in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries. IARPA addresses cross-agency challenges, leverages expertise from across the IC, and transitions advanced capabilities to IC partners. The IARPA organization is built around supporting the pioneering work of its Program Managers (PMs), and every IARPA success has come from an idea that was seeded by its PMs in response to an Intelligence Community (IC) challenge. IARPA's PMs are extraordinary leaders who conceive, plan, and oversee the technical execution of high-risk/high-payoff research and development efforts that enable the United States to have an intelligence advantage over its adversaries. IARPA's PMs are experts in their fields of research who bring imagination and dedication to challenges facing the IC. The work of IARPA's PMs directly and substantially impacts the IC's fut