Resources Archive

Winter 2023

Roundtable Report: Identifying, Collecting and Analyzing Actionable Intelligence in an Outbreak Event

How can the U.S. satisfy the need for real-time situational awareness during disease outbreaks or other public health emergencies? IQT's B.Next team convened experts from government agencies, academic, and tech companies in a roundtable to explore the critical data elements, technologies, and analytics needed to generate dynamic situational awareness essential to outbreak management.

Research & Findings

Fall 2022

AI Assurance Audit of RoBERTa, an Open source, Pretrained Large Language Model

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been in the news lot recently due to their tremendous power, but also concerns around their potential to generate offensive text. It's difficult to know…

Spring 2022

Implementing the CHIPS Act: Recommendations for the Department of Commerce

The U.S. significantly enhanced its ability to confront the challenges facing the U.S. in semiconductor R&D and manufacturing when it enacted the CHIPS Act in 2020. This paper features the…

Spring 2022

Where in the World Report

Suppose that a photograph has surfaced on social media, or through some dubious origin, and you want to know: where was it really taken? This IQT Labs report explores cross-view…

Winter 2022

AI Assurance Audit of FakeFinder

What happened when we audited a deepfake detection tool called FakeFinder? This report details findings from our audit on this open source tool that predicts whether a video is a…

Winter 2022

Synthesizing Robustness

Is your synthetic data letting you down? In this Synthesizing Robustness report, IQT Labs explores whether or not generative models can increase the utility of synthetic data for rare object…

Summer 2021

IQT Roundtable – Capabilities Required for Pandemic Response

On August 12, 2021, In-Q-Tel (IQT) convened a virtual Roundtable meeting to examine the technologies used to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and other epidemics, to discuss what needed capabilities…

Winter 2021

The National Microelectronics Challenge

Growing U.S. concerns about national microelectronics competitiveness and supply chain security have prompted proposals for government action. This policy brief explores IQT’s view that innovation is the key to meeting…

Fall 2020

Data Privacy Tech Primer

IQT helps organizations find the best technologies to protect the information with which they are entrusted. But citizens and policymakers lack such an interlocutor, even as they are increasingly asked…

Fall 2020

IQT Insights: Open RAN Initiatives

The Radio Access Network (RAN) is part of a mobile telecommunication system that comprises cell towers that broadcast and receive radio signals, and its core network provides communications services that…

Summer 2020

COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing: Considerations for Using Digital Technologies

Co-published by B.Next and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), this guide aims to help health officials think through critical functionalities needed for case investigations and contact…

Summer 2020

Be a Hero: Wear a Mask

Wearing a mask is one of the most important steps we can take to reopen our country safely. It is not the only step – social distancing, frequent handwashing, and…

Spring 2020

Leveraging Sensors to Monitor COVID-19 Symptoms Remotely

This Technology Insights Guide provides an overview of the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (not medical grade) sensor technologies that might be useful in supporting the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak response.

Spring 2020

Challenges of Interpreting Test Results and Implications for COVID-19

Diagnostic tests are a critical tool to contain epidemics, to support medical care, and for public health measures. Understanding when they are accurate and inaccurate is necessary for understanding which…

Spring 2020

Precision Medicine 101

This white paper covers precision medicine 101 and explores the aspirations to develop medical treatments to the individual character of each patient, applications and future directions, and precision medicine in…

Winter 2020

The Unseen Conflict: Strategic Technology Competition Testimony by Mr. Christopher Darby

Winter 2020

Fever Screening – Public Health Protection or Security Theater?

Thermal imaging devices to detect travelers who have elevated temperatures and hence might be harboring a contagious disease, have been deployed during several infectious disease outbreaks.