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IARPA Commits $10.5M to Develop Gamification for Intelligence

Late last week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA, it’s like DARPA for spies) announced a new contract of $10.5 million to develop “serious games” that include training for US intelligence officers. Along side projects designing the future of silicon chips and predicting the future by analyzing public information, the new program, dubbed the Sirius Project will use game mechanics to train and evaluate intelligence officers on their ability to accurately analyze key information.

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