Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology
The U.S. government faces serious threats from sophisticated cyber adversaries who seek to access and disrupt systems and missions. We improve the security of these government systems through the development and deployment of innovative cybersecurity solutions. In particular, our group develops quantitative threat models to inform our cyber systems analyses and prototypes cyber defense techniques. We employ novel analytics to help us discover and characterize cyber threats. Our researchers have developed scalable cyber decision support tools that are used by the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
Featured Projects
cyber security
Cyber Adversarial Scenario Modeler and Artificial Intelligence Decision Engine (CASCADE)
CASCADE software simulates cyber attacker and defender actions and recommends multiple courses of action to make systems and networks more secure.
human language technology
CHARIOT
Using CHARIOT software, cybersecurity analysts can quickly filter online data to discover conversations that hint at cyber threat
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My career thus far has largely been influenced by the fact that the Laboratory has given me a lot of freedom in which projects and topics I’ve focused on, allowing me to carve my own path.
Jessica Ray
Computer Scientist
Cyber Security and Information Sciences
Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology
Advancing Our Research
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Cyber Technology for National Security (CTNS) 2025
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts
Featured Publications
Toward improving EN adoption: Bridging the gap between stated intention and actual use
Jun 3
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Report ACTA-7
Beyond expertise and roles: a framework to characterize the stakeholders of interpretable machine learning and their needs
Jan 24
Proc. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 8-13 May 2021, article no. 74.
Towards a distributed framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning research
Sep 22
2020 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conf., HPEC, 22-24 September 2020.
Our Staff
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