Homeland Protection
More about the Homeland Protection mission
- Accomplishments over the past year
- Future outlook and focus for upcoming year
Technical Groups
See descriptions of the technical groups in the Homeland Protection mission area. Desciptions of all technical divisions can be found on the Organization of Technical Divisions page.
Technical Workshops
The Laboratory, as part of its public service, helps organize outstanding conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST).
Katahdin Hill
A portion of Lincoln Laboratory's Homeland Protection work is performed at our Katahdin Hill facility adjacent to Lincoln Laboratory. The radar shown here on a tower at the Katahdin Hill site captures a view of the Boston airspace.
The Homeland Protection mission supports the nation’s security by innovating technology and architectures to help prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, to reduce the vulnerability of the nation to terrorism, to minimize the damage from terrorist attacks, and to facilitate recovery from either man-made or natural disasters. The broad sponsorship for this mission area spans the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS ), and other federal, state, and local entities. Recent efforts include architecture studies for the defense of civilians and facilities against biological attacks, development of the Enhanced Regional Situation Awareness system for the National Capital Region, the assessment of technologies for border and maritime security, and the development of architectures and systems for disaster response.
Lincoln Laboratory is developing, integrating, and evaluating microfluidic systems to enable new capabilities in biometrics, forensics, synthetic biology, and biomedical applications. Above, a technical staff member in the Bioengineering Systems and Technologies Group evaluates the performance of a digital microfluidic platform (through a research collaboration with Advanced Liquid Logic) for use in the rapid DNA analysis program.Leadership for Homeland Protection
Dr. Israel Soibelman
Mr. James Flavin
Dr. Timothy Dasey
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