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Frontiers in Technology

Technology Office

Promoting Innovative R&D for Today and the Future

Investments cultivated and managed by the Technology Office support the long view of technology for national security. Novel, impactful projects, many of which take a decade or more to come to fruition, push the very frontiers of technology development. We also focus on fostering innovation and creative thinking, both of which are essential to sustaining long-term technical excellence and relevance.

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Microfluidic devices for performing various assays were created with the tools in Lincoln Laboratory's Technology Office Innovation Laboratory.

Technology Office Frontiers

The Technology Office works to enhance inventiveness and innovation at the Laboratory through various opportunities and Laboratory-wide activities that sustain a culture of creative problem solving and innovative thinking.
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Technology Office News

The 2019 Young AFCEA 40 Under 40 award winners from Lincoln Laboratory are, from left to right, Anu Myne, Mark Veillette, Meredith Drennan, and Alexander Stolyarov.

Four from Lincoln Laboratory receive AFCEA’s 2019 40 Under 40 award

Jun 11
a dried-out lagoon

Workshop explores national security repercussions of climate change

Feb 11
Water droplets are inserted into the microhydraulic actuator, which rotates when voltage is applied to electrodes that pull the droplets in one direction. This disc-shaped actuator's inner diameter is five millimeters. Photo: Glen Cooper

Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion

Nov 13
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Featured Projects

The Laboratory's novel optical communication system was integrated on a robotic undersea vehicle.
lasers

Undersea Optical Communications

A system that enables robust, long-distance communications between underwater vehicles exploits laser technology.

A goal of the program is to develop a system that can identify spatial relationships between objects in a scene, such as counting how many planes are parked at the terminal on the left.
machine learning

Computer on Watch

An artificial intelligence application that automatically identifies objects in aerial imagery could reduce the time analysts spend in manually combing through images.

CASCADE software uses complex systems modeling and simulation to explore thousands of adversarial action-reaction logic branches and predict probable outcomes. The software generates cyber solutions optimized for security, cost, and mission performance.
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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.

For installation aboard a launch vehicle, a space telescope using technology developed for DISCIT will fold up into the compact shape seen at the left, but will expand its segmented sparse subapertures, right, once deployed.
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Deployable In-Space Coherent Imaging Telescope

Technologies enabling the deployment of an expandable telescope from a small spacecraft could pave the way for the development of other payloads for small satellites.

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Advancing our Research

Events

Nov
13 - 15

RAAINS - Recent Advances in AI for National Security

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Facilities

TOIL's machine shop has various tools for fabricating parts for new systems.

Technology Office Innovation Laboratory

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A drone navigates the obstacles in the Autonomous Drone Race challenge.

Technology Office Challenges

We challenge Laboratory teams to creatively address emerging problems in national security. We present a scenario that reflects a potential problem — for example, how to weed out false news from true reports — and hold a competition between teams who propose plausible, innovative solutions.
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Advanced Research Technology Symposium

A student stops at a poster to learn more about the researcher's work.
A student stops at a poster to learn more about the researcher's work.

The Technology Office organizes the Advanced Research Technology Symposium (ARTS), a recurring event held at MIT to connect with academics, students, and entrepreneurs on MIT campus and in the New England area. We seek to encourage and enable the development of advanced technologies in support of national security. The symposium highlights some of the most pressing challenges confronting our nation's security and well-being, and proposes ways advanced technology can help address these challenges. Presentations, poster sessions, and panel discussions engage attendees.