IARPA seeks proposals for hybrid forecasting competition

On September 12, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced it is seeking research proposals for its Hybrid Forecasting Competition. Proposals are due by November 14 at 5:00pm Eastern, according to FedBizOpps.

The HFC program seeks proposals for research to develop and test hybrid geopolitical forecasting systems. These systems will integrate human and machine forecasting components to create maximally accurate, flexible, and scalable forecasting capabilities.

Human-generated forecasts may be subject to cognitive biases and/or scalability limits. Machine-generated (i.e., statistical, computational) forecasting approaches may be more scalable and data-driven, but are often ill-suited to render forecasts for idiosyncratic or newly emerging geopolitical issues. Hybrid approaches hold promise for combining the strengths of these two approaches while mitigating their individual weaknesses.

Performers will develop systems that will integrate human and machine forecasting contributions in novel ways. These systems will compete in a multi-year competition to identify approaches that may enable the Intelligence Community (IC) to radically improve the accuracy and timeliness of geopolitical forecasts.

Full information is available here.

Source: FedBizOpps