The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — the advanced research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — recently launched a program to develop new innovations for tackling threats and advances inherent within the rapidly changing biointelligence and biosecurity landscapes.

The Biointelligence and Biosecurity for the Intelligence Community (B24IC) program represents the Intelligence Community’s (IC) latest investment in research that pushes the boundaries of our biointelligence and biosecurity understanding and technologies. QBI was one of nine groups selected under a recent competitive Broad Agency Announcement, with the goal of our project being to develop new sensing technology to detect and characterize highly-sensitive biomolecules and biological targets of interest.

QBI will be pursuing a new nanobody-based approach to agnostic sensing of water for both known and unexpected threats to safety. You can read more about this program here.