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.
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.
Technology Office News
Featured Projects
cyber security
Automated Cryptography for Data-Centric Security
We’re shifting the paradigm from system-centric to data-centric security, enabling automatic protection for data throughout all of its uses.
cyber security
Applied Resilience for Mission Systems
We’re improving and guiding the resilience of Department of Defense missions by adapting commercial practices and academic research for the development, operation, and sustainment of software-intensive systems.
artificial intelligence
Reconnaissance of Influence Operations
New software takes advantage of artificial intelligence techniques to automate the detection and assessment of aggressive influence operations.
cyber security
Keylime
We're enabling trust in the cloud with this free, open-source key bootstrapping and integrity management software architecture.
Advancing our Research
Events
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.
Advanced Research Technology Symposium
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.