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IPTO Mission
The mission of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) is to understand the world. From sensing to cognition, we bring the future of computing to the warfighter.
IPTO programs create the advanced information processing and exploitation science, technologies, and systems for revolutionary improvements in capability across the spectrum of national security needs. The capabilities that IPTO enables will lift the fog of war and increase the speed and accuracy of decision-making for the warfighter. IPTO aims to ensure U.S. superiority in all areas where information can provide a decisive advantage, including:
- Anticipating potential adversary actions in advance of actual hostilities;
- Shaping the battlespace before and during conflict;
- Improving the effectiveness of major combat operations; and
- Providing force multipliers for post-conflict reconstruction and stability operations.
Information technology is now pervasive in society and has brought radical changes to the way we work, the way we conduct business, and the ways we socialize. Computing has revolutionized warfighting as well, bringing great improvements in weapons, platforms, command and control, battlefield intelligence, and logistics. DARPA's leadership in the development of modern computing, communications, and information technology is well-known and includes such advances as time-sharing and the ARPANET/internet. Just as important for the DoD has been DARPA's success in creating new command, control, sensor, processing, and exploitation technologies and systems such as the Command Post of the Future and Ground Moving Target Indication radar.
IPTO is building on these past successes by supporting research, applied research and prototyping in the key Thrust Areas of Cognitive Systems; Command & Control; Language Processing; High Productivity Computing; Sensors & Processing; and Emerging Technologies.
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