Lincoln Laboratory

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiative to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL) research project, 534, is an advanced technology research and development effort conducted through a cost reimbursable contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT LL project supports innovative, multi-disciplined research that addresses critical national security problems. The project funds innovations that directly lead to the development of new system concepts, technologies, components, and materials in support of Department of Defense (DoD) missions. Funding supports high-risk, high-payoff research, which provides unique and specialized capabilities for the current and emerging needs of the DoD. The project funds nine technology areas. Of the technology areas, there are four core-technology areas: Advanced Devices; Optical Systems and Technology; Information, Computation and Exploitation Sciences; and Radio-Frequency (RF) Systems and Technologies. There are four emerging-technology initiatives: Advanced Materials and Processes; Quantum System Sciences; Biomedical Sciences and Technology; and Autonomous Systems. There is one Integrated Systems technology area, which focuses on combining novel component-level technologies to create system-level technology solutions for important DoD problems. These nine technology areas provide critical capabilities that support all DoD mission areas pursued at the Laboratory. The categories are selected in consultation with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) aligned with the DoD Communities of Interest (CoIs), and with guidance from other DoD agencies to address technology as well as system needs. The research in these categories adapts to solve emerging DoD problems as well as long-standing problems to which new technology advances can be applied. The individual efforts in each area are selected with the goal of enhancing DoD capabilities significantly, rather than incrementally. Note: In FY 2019, the tenth technology area, Cyber Security, Science and Engineering, moved to individual project code 815. Supporting these and other priority technology and capability areas are work efforts titled Cyber Security, Science and Engineering under project code 815, which began in FY 2019. The Cyber Security, Science and Engineering research project, 815, supports innovative research that addresses critical national security problems in cyber. The project funds innovations that directly lead to the development of new system concepts, technologies, and algorithms in support of DoD missions. Funding supports high-risk, high-payoff research, which provides unique and specialized capabilities for the current and emerging needs of the DoD.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0602234D8Z_2_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• 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
• Counter WMD
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Advanced Materials
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Systems
• Cognitive Science
• Command And Control
• Data Processing
• Human-Machine Systems
• Lasers
• Machine Learning
• Manufacturing
• Materials
• Materials Science
• National Security
• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Information
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Biotechnology
• Cyber
• Quantum Computing