The Central Intelligence Agency launched a new R&D arm to better attract entrepreneurs and innovators.

CIA Labs is part of the Federal Laboratory Consortium and will focus on technology research, development, testing and engineering to address new challenges and improve on existing solutions, its site reads. With this new installment, the Langley, Virginia-based CIA wants to recruit tech talent “by offering incentives to those who work there,” meaning, CIA officers will gain access to more resources and be able to publicly file patents on the intellectual property they work on while collecting a portion of the profits.

“This is helping maintain US dominance, particularly from a technological perspective,” said Dawn Meyerriecks, head of the agency’s science and technology directorate, told MIT Technology Review. “That’s really critical for national and economic security. It also democratizes the technology by making it available to the planet in a way that allows the level of the water to rise for all.”

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