Lincoln Laboratory

Abstract

The Lincoln Laboratory (LL) research line 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, technologies, components and materials in support of Lincoln Laboratory’s missions in Advanced Electronics Technology, Communications Systems, Cyber Security and Information Sciences, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems and Technology, Tactical Systems, Space Control, and Air and Missile Defense. The Lincoln Laboratory Program supports these missions by conducting research and development in nine science and engineering disciplines: - Advanced Devices, with emphasis on development of devices and subsystems utilizing microelectronic, photonic, biological, and chemical technologies to enable new approaches to Department of Defense (DoD) systems. - Optical Systems and Technologies, including the development of focal plane arrays, integrated imagers, laser communications, imaging and spectroscopic detection systems. - Radio Frequency (RF) Systems and Technologies, including the development of novel active and passive radio frequency (RF) sensors, development of electronic protection and electronics attack technologies, and system concepts and communication systems. - Information, Computation, and Exploitation, which includes the development of novel architectures, tools, and techniques for the processing, fusion, interpretation, computation, and exploitation of multi-sensor, multi-intelligence data. - Cyber Security, which includes the development of technologies and new techniques for the protection of systems against cyber attack and exploitation. - Biomedical Sciences and Technology, which supports the development of technologies to aid the warfighter, to investigate relevant research in brain and cognitive sciences, to develop engineered biological systems, and to assess physical performance and injury recovery. - Autonomous Systems, which includes the development of technologies with the objective of developing mobile, autonomous, robotic platforms, sensors and algorithms that support key capabilities needed for a wide range of defense applications. - Quantum System Sciences, which develops basic technologies that support sensing, communication and computation using quantum information, focusing on the demonstration of scalable computation platforms, demonstration of quantum protected communications and magnetic field sensing using highly-compact, atomic-like defects in diamond. - Novel and Engineered Materials, with emphasis on new materials for additive manufacturing and emerging nanoscale materials. Supporting these and other priority technology and capability areas are work efforts entitled Technical Intelligence and Testbed for Comparative Analysis: - 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. - The Testbed for Comparative Analysis will enable the evaluation of quantitative, 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, 2016
• Source ID: 0602234D8Z_2_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding decreases were used to pay for higher priority DoD bills.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• Biomedical
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Autonomous Systems
• Cognitive Science
• Collision Avoidance
• Communication Systems
• Data Analysis
• Detection
• Detectors
• Fabrication
• Information Science
• Laser Diodes
• Manufacturing
• Optical Detectors
• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Information
• Quantum Information Science
• Radio Frequency

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Biotechnology
• Cyber
• Cyber - Quantum
• Directed Energy
• Microelectronics
• Quantum Computing
• Space