Unreal Engine 3, the game engine that provides the visuals and physics behind popular shooter games such as “America’s Army 3” and “Mass Effect 3,” is being licensed to government customers.
Another, more hush-hush project is Sirius, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) effort to develop serious games to train intelligence analysts to recognize and diminish their own biases and thus produce more accurate analyses. ARA, along with other contractors such as Raytheon, has received a $10 million IARPA award to fund research.
