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. (U) 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 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-INT data. - (U) Technical Initiatives, include biological sciences to aid the warfighter and to 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 is a work effort titled Technical Intelligence. Technical Intelligence supports 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 effort focused on establishing a broad horizon scanning and technology forecasting effort is a collaborative effort by DOD and the Intelligence community. This effort will develop insight over time into our relative position in science and technology around the world and potential impacts on capability development and future threat environments.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: P534_0602234D8Z_2_0400_PB_2013

Tags

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

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