Lincoln Laboratory
Abstract
(U) The Lincoln Laboratory research line program (LL Program) is an advanced technology research and development effort conducted through a cost reimbursable contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The LL Program funds innovations that directly lead to the development of new system concepts, new technologies, and new components and materials. The LL Program currently includes six core technologies and four technical initiatives: (U) Advanced Electronics Technologies, with emphasis on development of materials, devices, and subsystems utilizing microelectronic, photonic, biological, and chemical technologies to enable new system approaches to DoD sensors. (U) Advanced Optical Communications, focusing on high-efficiency free-space optical communications links. (U) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, including the development of novel active and passive RF and electro-optic sensors useful for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications, as well as advanced data exploitation techniques. (U) Net-centric Operations, with an emphasis on developing and demonstrating the key technologies that will enable composable and dynamic multi-mission net-centric operations on the Global Information Grid. (U) Decision Support, with the goal of developing and demonstrating fundamental technologies and architectures supporting real time decisions across large, dynamic, heterogeneous data sets. (U) Homeland Protection, with the objective of developing and demonstrating architectures and the key technologies that support homeland protection. (U) Technical Initiatives, including biological sciences to aid the warfighter, promote public health, and develop tools for biological research; cybersecurity technologies to develop new techniques for the protection of systems against cyber attack and exploitation; autonomous systems technologies with the objective of developing mobile, autonomous, robotic platforms that demonstrate key capabilities needed for a wide range of defense applications; and quantum information sciences to develop basic technologies that support the storage, transport, and computation of quantum information. (U) Supporting these and other priority technology and capability areas are work efforts entitled Technical Intelligence and Testbed for Comparative Analysis: (U) Technical Intelligence is working to develop a comprehensive understanding of technology emergence and advancement in a range of relevant scientific areas such as nanotechnology, directed energy, and propulsion. Some details are classified, but one focus area is working to establish a broad horizon scanning and technology forecasting capability through a collaborative effort by DOD and the Intelligence Community. This effort will develop insight into our relative position in science and technology around the world over time, as well as determine potential impacts on DOD capability development and future threat environments. (U) The Testbed for Comparative Analysis will enable the evaluation of quantitative and horizon scanning and technology forecasting techniques for discovering disruptive technologies that may impact the DOD. This effort will provide the DOD with objective ways to evaluate the accuracy of existing and future horizon scanning and technology forecasting efforts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0602234D8Z_2_0400_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- Baseline Review. As part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, implemented a zero-based review of the organization to align resources to the most critical priorities and eliminate lower priority functions. This included the addition of $3.000M for a Comparative AnalysisTestbed and $2.500M to the core program. Defense Efficiency – Report, Studies, Boards and Commissions. As part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, reflects a reduction in the number and cost of reports, studies, DoD Boards and DoD Commissions below the aggregate level reported in the previous budget submission.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of Secretary Of Defense
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