Projects
![A goal of the program is to develop a system that can identify spatial relationships between objects in a scene, such as counting how many planes are parked at the terminal on the left.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-06/computer-on-watch-image-v3.png?h=ac94feee&itok=cHrN-fSU)
Computer on Watch
An artificial intelligence application that automatically identifies objects in aerial imagery could reduce the time analysts spend in manually combing through images.
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![For installation aboard a launch vehicle, a space telescope using technology developed for DISCIT will fold up into the compact shape seen at the left, but will expand its segmented sparse subapertures, right, once deployed.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-05/DISCIT-new.png?h=b65fab28&itok=tgDujlc5)
Deployable In-Space Coherent Imaging Telescope
Technologies enabling the deployment of an expandable telescope from a small spacecraft could pave the way for the development of other payloads for small satellites.
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![The MASIVS sensor uses four focal planes.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-05/AR12_ISR_MASIVS_IMG_3455-rgb-foot-removed.jpg?h=a2f1c2b3&itok=aAevMF8h)
Multi-Aperture Sparse Imager Video System
An airborne system provides high-resolution wide-area video imagery and onboard data processing to enable real-time monitoring of suspicious human activity.
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![During a wildfire in southern California, emergency responders shared real-time information on the NICS interface, such as the size of the fire, unit locations, and the rate of the fire’s spread.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-05/NICS.jpg?h=e94bad3e&itok=ixgAMDZ2)
Next-Generation Incident Command System
Emergency agencies around the world are using NICS to coordinate rapid and organized response to disasters.
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![The dual-band, pod-mounted sensor developed for the Airborne Seeker Test Bed is used for airborne infrared imaging and data collection.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/AVSE-2-1.png?h=3fe6b1c8&itok=wprhEp4G)
Air Vehicle Survivability Evaluation
For more than 40 years, Lincoln Laboratory has provided the Air Force with assessments on potential technologies for assuring the survivability of Air Force aircraft.
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![The SST awaits nightfall to be tasked with scanning space from its location atop the Atom Site, a high-altitude observation point in New Mexico that provides a view of the sky that is virtually untouched by light pollution.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/SST.jpg?h=f2221fcc&itok=9eKqQQYs)
Space Surveillance Telescope
A unique curved focal surface enables a highly sensitive telescope capable of surveying broad swaths of deep space to detect the faintest objects in the night sky.
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![The LAVA system automatically injects bugs into program code so that vulnerability discovery techniques can be tested.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/lava_graphic-01_WEB.jpg?itok=mJpwunjv)
Large-scale Automated Vulnerability Addition
Computer scientists can test techniques for finding vulnerabilities in code.
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![Ray tracing that simulates wave propagation is used to build performance models for high-frequency radar and communication systems.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/SpaceWx-1.png?h=801a2b6e&itok=Gl4tgmSq)
Applied Space Weather
New algorithms improve the resilience of satellite and RF systems to impacts from space weather.
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![TESS's cameras, which will monitor planets passing in front of stars, were designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory engineers. Illustration: Chester Beals](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/AR13_TESS_Earth2.png?h=e75ab034&itok=MzzwiO3a)
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.
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![Researchers test the prototype standoff microwave imaging system. The antennas emit radio signals that reflect off the person standing in front of the array; the system processes the reflections to create the image on the monitors in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/512246-005D.jpg?h=f4b902a9&itok=aDA2L9iC)
Video-Rate Standoff Microwave Imaging System
The system can rapidly and discreetly detect threat items concealed under clothes or hidden in bags of people in crowded public spaces.
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