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Lincoln Laboratory Journal
About the Journal
The Lincoln Laboratory Journal publishes technical articles by Laboratory staff members on current research in areas related to critical problems of national interest. These research areas include adaptive optics, air traffic control, automatic target recognition, ballistic missile defense, biological sensing, computer architecture, digital signal processing, electronic components, language processing, laser technology, materials research, microelectronics, modeling and simulation, optical lithography, satellite communications, space surveillance, spectral imaging, surface surveillance, and weather sensing.
Lincoln Laboratory Journal Archives ›
Volume 17, Number 1 - 2007 ›
Chemical and Biological Defense
Meeting the Chem–Bio Defense Challenge (pdf) ›
Work on countermeasures to biological and chemical weapons began in the mid-1990s, driven by the belief that technology could minimize or even totally negate the effects of these weapons.
By Darryl Greenwood
Advanced Trigger Development (pdf) ›
The deadliest form of a biological attack is aerosolized agents inhaled by a human. Real-time, single-particle, optically based detectors serve as first responders to such attacks.
By Thomas H. Jeys, William D. Herzog, John D. Hybl, Richard N. Czerwinski, and Antonio Sanchez
Rapid Sensors for Biological-Agent Identification (pdf) ›
The CANARY system, based on genetically engineered white-blood cells and inexpensive sensor hardware, provides the best known combination of speed and sensitivity for identifying pathogens and toxins.
By Martha S. Petrovick, James D. Harper, Frances E. Nargi, Eric D. Schwoebel, Mark C. Hennessy, Todd H. Rider, and Mark A. Hollis
Early Warning Chemical Sensing (pdf) ›
Standoff chemical sensors provide advance warning of an attack. Lincoln Laboratory has developed sensor concepts optimized for wide-area chemical surveillance as well as for inexpensive fixed-site protection.
By Juliette A. Seeley and Jonathan M. Richardson
Health Surveillance and Diagnosis for Mitigating a Bioterror Attack (pdf) ›
Two approaches offer great potential for alerting public health officials to a bio-attack quickly so that they can begin to make treatment available: syndromic surveillance and location-based monitoring through cell phones.
By Adam Szpiro, Bernadette Johnson, and David Buckeridge
Modeling Responses to Anthrax and Smallpox Attacks (pdf) ›
If safeguards against a biological attack fail, the paramount task will be to treat those who have been infected with biological agents. Models of anthrax and smallpox outbreaks show that speed of response would be crucial.
By Diane C. Jamrog, Michael P. Shatz, and Cassandra Smith
Protecting Buildings against Airborne Contamination (pdf) ›
Determining the most appropriate system to safeguard facilities from a chemical or biological attack is a daunting systems engineering problem. Fortunately, buildings offer many options for contaminant mitigation and exposure reduction.
By Daniel Cousins and Steven D. Campbell
Information Fusion and Response Guidance (pdf) ›
Assessment of chemical and biological threats requires a reliance on uncertain and disparate information sources. Sound decision making requires fusion of information sources.
By Timothy J. Dasey and Jerome J. Braun
Recovery of Organisms and Nucleic Acids from Complex Samples (pdf) ›
Fast, easy techniques for sample preparation are essential for identifying the presence of a biological agent in the field. A suite of innovative devices requires little or no power, is lightweight and fieldable, and the sample preparation can be carried out by personnel with little or no technical background.
By Lalitha Parameswaran, Laura Bortolin, Catherine Cabrera, and Christina Rudzinski
Addressing the Multicore Trend with Automatic Parallelization (pdf) ›
Parallel programming offers huge computational potential. But for the technique to become mainstream will require algorithms that automatically break down tasks into pieces that can be done in parallel rather than sequentially.
By Nadya Bliss