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
radar
Kwajalein Modernization and Remoting Program Radar Open System Architecture
We developed an open system architecture that reduces the complexity and cost of operations at the Reagan Test Site.
decision support
Reagan Test Site Automation and Decision Support
New software tools provide test operators with automated decision support for directing sensors during increasingly complex tests conducted at the Reagan Test Site.
communications
Reagan Test Site Distributed Operations
We contributed to a transformational program to fundamentally change the mission execution and operations at the Reagan Test Site.
optical systems
Reagan Test Site Optics Modernization
Upgrades to the Reagan Test Site’s optical systems combine state-of-the-art focal plane technologies with a wide-area, network-centric, open-system design to allow distributed system command and control while achieving unprecedented metric accuracy.
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
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
Every day on Kwajalein, we are faced with new challenges in a resource-constrained environment, where we have to innovate and draw on the expertise of a diverse team to successfully execute our common mission.
Sarah Willis
Systems Analyst
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Kwajalein Field Site
Advancing Our Research
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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