Intel Labs Government Collaborations
Intel Labs partners with government agencies to set and pursue bold goals that accelerate technological advancements across priority research areas. We participate in a variety of collaborative research initiatives with institutions like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to support education, training, and research on key technologies including, semiconductors, AI, high performance compute, quantum, cybersecurity and more.
Protecting National Security through Collaborations with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
DARPA's mission to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security fits perfectly with Intel Labs’ work on security and data privacy. Working with other academic partners, Intel has strongly contributed to DARPA programs including data protection in virtual environments, using AI to identify and create defenses against system attacks as well as participating in other programs that affect military and space operations.
Data Protection in Virtual Environments (DPRIVE)
Performers in the program are developing FHE hardware accelerators with the goal to reduce computational run-time overhead by many orders of magnitude compared to software-based FHE computations on conventional CPUs.
Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence Robustness against Deception (GARD)
The goal of the GARD program is to establish theoretical ML system foundations that will not only identify system vulnerabilities and characterize properties to enhance system robustness, but also promote the creation of effective defenses.
H6
The H6 program aims to develop a GPS-independent tactical-grade clock that sustains weeklong microsecond timing while maintaining signal assurance, pervasive security, and high-bandwidth communications.
Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines (HARDEN)
HARDEN will help create practical tools to prevent the exploitation of integrated computing systems by disrupting the patterns of robust, reliable exploits used by attackers and depriving the attackers of emergent execution engines.
Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE)
The goal of HIVE is to develop a powerful new data-handling and computing platform specialized for analyzing and interpreting huge amounts of data with unprecedented deftness.
Intelligent Design of Electronic Assets (IDEA)
The IDEA program aims to leverage advances in applied machine learning, optimization algorithms, and expert systems to create a compiler that could allow users with no prior design expertise to complete physical design at the most advanced technology nodes.
Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency – Simulation (Racer-Sim)
The RACER-Sim program aims to create the next generation of off-road simulation platforms to significantly reduce the development cost and bridge the gap between simulation and the real world.
Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN)
The program aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that will translate information between diverse satellite constellations. A Space-BACN satellite terminal will enable communications between satellite constellations, enabling data to be sent anywhere around the planet at the speed of light.
"When you bring together the U.S. government and a group of companies to fund academic research, you provide a foundation on which companies can build. Intel is proud to have worked on many key collaborations to introduce innovative technology."
Gilroy Vandentop
Intel Labs VP and Director of Corporate University Research
Intel Labs’ Commitment to Research and Education with National Science Foundation (NSF)
Intel Labs has a long standing partnership with the NSF involving several programs aimed at advancing AI technology and innovation. The two organizations started working together decades ago when co-founding the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading microelectronics research consortium. NSF is tasked with keeping the U.S. at the leading edge of discovery in science and engineering, to the benefit of all, without barriers to participation.
AI Institutes for Optimizations
These institutes are hubs for academia, industry and government to accelerate discovery and innovation in AI. Intel Labs co-funds two significant initiatives, the NSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization, and the NSF AI Institute for Learning-Enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS).
Enhancing Engineering Technology and Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Technician Education (ETSTE)
A cooperative activity between NSF and Intel Corporation to stimulate transformative approaches to improve and impact advanced manufacturing technician education and workforce development for semiconductor manufacturing and design.
Foundational Microarchitecture Research (FoMR)
FoMR will support transformative microarchitecture research targeting improvements in instructions per cycle (IPC).
Future of Semiconductors (FuSe)
Supports collaborative research and education in partnership with industry on domain-specific computing, heterogenous integration, and new materials for energy-efficient, enhanced-performance and sustainable semiconductor-based systems.
Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS)
This program seeks to accelerate fundamental, broad-based research on wireless-specific machine learning (ML) techniques, to address the diverse and stringent quality-of-service requirements of future wireless applications.
Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPOSS)
PPoSS supports researchers working across multiple disciplines on modern applications, systems and toolchains built on heterogeneous architectures.
Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems (RINGS)
This program seeks to accelerate research in areas that can significantly impact emerging next-generation wireless and mobile communication, networking, sensing, and computing systems, along with global-scale services.
Intel Labs Large-Scale Computing Collaborations with Governmental Agencies
Intel Labs collaborates on research with other governmental agencies, including delivering future exascale computing capabilities to Argonne National Laboratory as well as deploying a large-scale neuromorphic system at Sandia National Laboratories.
Argonne National Lab’s Aurora Exascale System
Aurora will be the nation’s first Exascale HPC system built on Intel® architecture. With its extreme scale and performance levels, Aurora will offer the scientific community the compute power needed for the most advanced research in fields like biochemistry, engineering, astrophysics, energy, healthcare, and more.
Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI
Code-named Hala Point, the industry’s first 1.15 billion neuron neuromorphic system, initially deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, builds a path toward more efficient and scalable AI.