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 has evolved in FY 2012 to include three new categories for a total of seven core technology areas and four continuing 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 Department of Defense (DoD) sensors. - (U) Communications (formerly Advance Optical Communications), focusing on high-efficiency free-space optical communications links as well as development and applications of metamaterials. - (U) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, including the development of novel active and passive Radio Frequency (RF) and electro-optic sensors useful for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications. - (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) Air and Missile Defense (new in FY 2012), with an emphases on novel discrimination schemes and electronic warfare applications. - (U) Space Control (new in FY 2012), focusing on advanced remote-sensing architectures and small satellite applications. - (U) Information, Computation, and Exploitation (new in FY 2012), which seeks to develop novel architectures, tools, and techniques for the processing, fusion, interpretation, computation and exploitation of multi-sensor, multi-intelligence data. - (U) Technical Initiatives, include biological sciences to aid the warfighter 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) In FY 2012, two efforts (Homeland Protection and Decision Support) no longer receive funding under the LL Program. Work previously conducted under these initiatives is either being carried forward under the aforementioned application-specific areas or has been transitioned to external support. (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 the Department of Defense (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, 2013
- Source ID
- 0602234D8Z_2_0400_PB_2013
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Office of Secretary Of Defense
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