Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

7. Intelligence Community · Minor

Refocus IARPA and CIA S&T on hard problems the private sector isn't solving

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229 7. Intelligence Community

“The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and S&T should focus primarily on challenging technology problems. Avoiding duplication of what is already being done well in the private sector in such areas as practical defense cyber intelligence and artificial intelligence research would help to focus the agencies on the complex shadow tasks at hand while simultaneously freeing limited resources for advancement in other areas.”

What has happened

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    Nothing refocuses IARPA or the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology away from work the private sector does well. Federal Register full-text "Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity" since 2025-01-20 returns zero documents, the phrase appears nowhere in the enrolled text of P.L. 119-60, and the Corpus holds no presidential action or bill on either organization. CIA's Federal Register footprint in the window is a decennial operational-files review and three Privacy Act notices.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Lead, not Evidence: a Federal News Network report (2026-06-30) reports an internal CIA technology reorganization. It was loaded by title only, for #546, and is a Secondary report of an internal reorganization, not a dated instrument refocusing IARPA or S&T on the problems this Quote names.
  • This ask is part of the single negative search that covered the internal IC management asks on pp. 219, 225 and 229 that have no public instrument.
Action
restrict
Object
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and CIA Science and Technology Directorate
ID
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