Projects
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Reagan Test Site Optics Modernization
Upgrades to the Reagan Test Site’s optical systems combine state-of-the-art focal plane technologies with a wide-area, network-centric, open-system design to allow distributed system command and control while achieving unprecedented metric accuracy.
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Telemetry Modernization with Open-Architecture Software-Defined Radio Technology
We conducted a software-defined radio technology development program to improve the way telemetered information is collected and processed.
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High-Assurance Cryptography
Lincoln Laboratory is developing technologies to meet the highest standards for information security at the tactical edge.
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Combining Neural Networks and Histogram Layers for Underwater Target Classification
New machine learning methods capture statistical features within sonar data to distinguish between sound sources.
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Underwater PB&J: Combining Diver and Robot Strengths for Optimized Mid-Mission Teaming
New navigation and vehicle autonomy algorithms consider which tasks humans and autonomous systems respectively do best, with the goal of improving search path planning and object classification in underwater environments.
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Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics
An algorithm uses camera imagery to estimate visibility for pilots flying in remote areas that lack weather sensors.
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Autonomous Mobility Through Intelligent Collaboration
Teaming autonomous ground and aerial vehicles improves autonomous off-road military missions.
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TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD)
The laser communications payload has delivered terabytes of data from a satellite to Earth at record-breaking rates that will transform future science missions.
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TROPICS
A constellation of small satellites is collecting rapidly refreshed weather data to advance studies of hurricane structure and intensity and improve forecasts.
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![A rendition of a communications payload on its spacecraft host, with laser links over the Earth connecting Hawaii and California.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/LCRD%20schematic.png?itok=e8EDbJG0)
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Optical communications technologies decades in the making at Lincoln Laboratory were transferred to NASA for its first two-way laser relay communications system.
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