Technology Office

Investments cultivated and managed by the Technology Office support the development of new Mission Critical Technology for national security. Impactful projects in Emerging Technology, 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 Collaboration, both of which are essential to sustaining long-term technical excellence and relevance. The Artificial Intelligence Group, under the direction of the Technology Office, was recently established to advance R&D in AI being conducted across all Laboratory areas to expand capabilities to meet a broad spectrum of needs.

Mission Critical Technology
Emerging Technology
Innovation and Collaboration
Artificial Intelligence Technology

The Technology Office enables the development of technologies that address long-term challenges and emerging issues within Lincoln Laboratory’s core mission areas. To maintain an awareness of evolving national security problems and applicable technologies, the office interacts regularly with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and other government agencies.

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The Technology Office promotes research and development of new technologies and engineering solutions of growing relevance to national security. Staff are working at the frontiers of technology to transfer the latest advances to the Laboratory’s mission areas. Some investments, such as quantum information systems, may take years to come to fruition. In areas of increasing importance to the nation, such as energy and autonomy, the Laboratory is taking a lead role.

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Our group develops fundamental and enabling artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to solve complex challenges and advance AI for the nation. Current research areas include applying AI to fuel scientific discovery of materials and biomaterials; exploring network science and its applications; employing AI as a teammate in making decisions; developing technology to increase trust in AI; and investigating the broad area of responsible AI and ethics.

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a workhorse for national security

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A metal frame floats in Boston Harbor, with the city in the backdrop.

Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

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Awards

Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive R&D 100 Awards

Sep 12

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Three project team members test the robot's flexibility in an indoor laboratory setting.

disaster relief

Vine Robots for Collapsed Structure Mapping

These robots can navigate difficult urban disaster terrain to help responders locate and access victims for rescue.

A prototype reflectarray faces a feed horn in an anechoic chamber.

communications

Mitigating cellular network congestion through adaptive beamforming with reflectarrays

A low-cost, reconfigurable radio receiver architecture provides an alternative approach to filter out unwanted transmissions in millimeter-wave (MMW) signals.

A schematic showing the Earth with many satellite links.

satellite communications (SATCOM)

Networking for a New Era of Global Satellite Connectivity

Large constellations of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) allow for unparalleled global coverage but require new networking approaches.

A magnified view of superconducting circuits.

computing

Superconducting Content-Addressable Memories (SuperCAMs)

Unconventional memory circuits can accelerate data processing in cyber sensing devices by reducing the latency of matching complex data patterns to specialized processing pipelines.

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