Projects
![Space Tactics Interns learn the operations of the high-power Millstone Hill radar that tracks space vehicles and space debris.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/Millstone_501498-209D.jpg?h=6363fe9a&itok=y6Qxcn-1)
14th Air Force Detachment — Space Tactics Internship
A program created by the Air Force Space Command and Lincoln Laboratory gives participants experience with advanced systems and processes for managing space operations.
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![The high-rate, entangled-photon source technologies will be integrated into the optical fiber quantum network test bed.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/Quantum_Source.jpg?itok=NHhuvkBt)
Quantum Network Test Bed
Lincoln Laboratory and MIT researchers are creating a shared quantum network test bed that will be used for developing and realistic testing of applications that take advantage of quantum science's potential to enable diverse, advanced communication, sensing, and computing systems.
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![Each BEACON instrument has two cylinders outfitted with copper electrodes. As the cylinders spin synchronously, the electrical field produces a signal between the electrodes; from this signal, the strength and direction of the E-field are computed.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/BEACON_RenderTransparent_iso.jpg?h=c2ac3c3b&itok=zDoPMQO4)
BEACON
Researchers are creating a balloon-carried instrument for predicting the likelihood of lightning in a storm cloud.
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![The processing board for the new graph processor is shown.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/511924-015D.jpg?h=ef705b21&itok=kqUhtsEp)
Advanced Graph Processor
A prototype of a new graph processor has been shown to handle big data as efficiently as a supercomputer.
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![The Husky Mark III vehicle was deployed to Afghanistan for operational evaluation of the GPR's ability to find buried devices.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/Stanley_fig_1.jpg?h=d29c675c&itok=W_xywWRT)
Groundhog
A ground-penetrating radar that detects objects deep underground can also help keep a self-driving automobile in its lane.
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![Experiments with the micro-ladar yielded this image of the sombrero at the right.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/Zoomed_collected_square.png?h=d976008e&itok=0XdnFmNf)
Micro-ladar
Recent advances in imaging architectures and real-time processing are enabling the development of a miniature ladar sensor that can be deployed on a UAV.
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![SensorSat was launched and deployed into orbit from this Minotaur IV rocket. Photo courtesy of Orbital ATK](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/ORS-5_MinoaturIV_2.jpg?h=37129a01&itok=U-8HM8Bo)
![This illustration shows OSIRIS-REx contacting the asteroid Bennu. Aboard OSIRIS-REx is the REXIS instrument, for which the Laboratory developed CCDs that will image X-rays emitting from Bennu's surface. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/OSIRIS-REX.jpg?h=f8d5414b&itok=-jteZZMe)
Charge-Coupled Devices for REXIS on OSIRIS-REx
Our CCDs will image X-rays emitting from elements on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.
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![The FOVEA tool is just one of Lincoln Laboratory's efforts to help the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate protect public spaces such as subways from attacks.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/508525-539D.jpg?itok=_dbzwgpK)
Forensic Video Exploitation and Analysis Tool
The tool lets security officials quickly analyze video surveillance footage and track incidents of interest.
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![Photomicrograph of superconducting single-flux-quantum (SFQ) shift-register integrated circuit fabricated at Lincoln Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/GOMAC_sc_PCM411_Shift%20Register%2810%29.jpg?itok=6WwXYj2g)
Superconducting Electronics
The world's most advanced single-flux-quantum (SFQ) integrated circuit process has been developed here at Lincoln Laboratory.
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