Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Developing technology for defending the nation from missile threats
We develop and assess integrated systems for defense against missiles and other threats. Our activities include investigating system architectures, developing advanced sensor and decision support systems, making field measurements, and assessing deployed system capabilities.
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology Groups
Our expertise is in developing radar, electronic warfare, and system-of-systems technologies for future integrated air and missile defense systems. We design highly digitized phased array radars, equipped with advanced signal processing and electronic protection, for the next generation of land, shipboard, and airborne sensors.
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Featured Projects
undersea technology
Combining Neural Networks and Histogram Layers for Underwater Target Classification
New machine learning methods capture statistical features within sonar data to distinguish between sound sources.
undersea technology
Underwater PB&J: Combining Diver and Robot Strengths for Optimized Mid-Mission Teaming
New navigation and vehicle autonomy algorithms consider which tasks humans and autonomous systems respectively do best, with the goal of improving search path planning and object classification in underwater environments.
navigation systems
Radio-Based Navigation for Environments Without GPS
With the goal of enabling navigation in environments where GPS is unavailable or unreliable, researchers are developing algorithms to fuse information across a network of small, low-power radio-frequency devices.
undersea technology
Undersea Vision-Based Navigation and Pose Determination for Human-Robot Teaming
Undersea vision-based navigation and pose determination will enable divers and robots to collaboratively solve complex tasks in an inherently unstructured environment.
Laboratory Stories
One of the great things about the Laboratory is that you can really move around and evolve as you see fit.
David Whelihan
Undersea Systems Engineer
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology
In 2008, colleagues and I started an internship program to help jumpstart IT careers for local residents of neighboring islands.
John O'Rourke
Information Technology (IT) Systems Administrator
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Kwajalein Field Site
That's what I love about working at Lincoln Laboratory — the endless diversity of opportunities and the constant learning.
Karyn Lundberg
Systems Analyst
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Kwajalein Field Site
The most exciting part of my work is being able to test components on real radars.
Andrew Mack
Applied Physicist
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Kwajalein Field Site
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Events
Apr
12
Defense Technology Seminar (DTS) for U.S. Military Academy - 2024
Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts
Leadership
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Featured Publications
Backdoor poisoning of encrypted traffic classifiers
Nov 28
IEEE Intl. Conf. Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW, 28 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2022.
System analysis for responsible design of modern AI/ML systems
Apr 19
arXiv, April 19, 2022.
Probabilistic coordination of heterogeneous teams from capability temporal logic specifications
Apr 1
IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett., Vol. 7, No. 2, April 2022, pp. 1190-7.
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