Intelligence Project

QLab Application Now Open: Applications for the QLab Spring 2027 cohort are now open! To apply, fill out this QLab Application by October 23, 2026.

QLab, a national security innovation accelerator at Harvard Kennedy School, brings together Harvard and MIT student entrepreneurs with intelligence and defense practitioners to catalyze solutions for real-world challenges. QLab organizes weekly workshops and guest speaker sessions with the QLab student teams during the spring and summer, featuring luminaries in defense strategy, venture capital, and emerging technologies.

The Intelligence Project seeks to build a new generation of intelligence practitioners prepared to serve in a rapidly changing world and to help future policymakers and intelligence consumers understand how best to interact with intelligence to gain a decision advantage. Building on multi-disciplinary research at the Belfer Center, from history to geopolitics to emerging technologies, the Intelligence Project links intelligence agencies with Belfer researchers, Faculty, and Kennedy School students, to enrich their education and support public policy decision-making.