Technology Office

Investments cultivated and managed by the Technology Office support the development of new Mission Critical Technology for national security. Impactful projects in Emerging Technology, many of which take a decade or more to come to fruition, push the very frontiers of technology development. We also focus on fostering Innovation and Collaboration, both of which are essential to sustaining long-term technical excellence and relevance. The Artificial Intelligence Group, under the direction of the Technology Office, was recently established to advance R&D in AI being conducted across all Laboratory areas to expand capabilities to meet a broad spectrum of needs. We are also leading a Laboratory-wide effort to advance Climate Change Technology for National Security.

Mission Critical Technology
Emerging Technology
Innovation and Collaboration
Artificial Intelligence Technology
Climate Change Technology for National Security

The Technology Office enables the development of technologies that address long-term challenges and emerging issues within Lincoln Laboratory’s core mission areas. To maintain an awareness of evolving national security problems and applicable technologies, the office interacts regularly with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and other government agencies.

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The Technology Office promotes research and development of new technologies and engineering solutions of growing relevance to national security. Staff are working at the frontiers of technology to transfer the latest advances to the Laboratory’s mission areas. Some investments, such as quantum information systems, may take years to come to fruition. In areas of increasing importance to the nation, such as energy and autonomy, the Laboratory is taking a lead role.

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Our group develops fundamental and enabling artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to solve complex challenges and advance AI for the nation. Current research areas include applying AI to fuel scientific discovery of materials and biomaterials; exploring network science and its applications; employing AI as a teammate in making decisions; developing technology to increase trust in AI; and investigating the broad area of responsible AI and ethics.

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Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

Dec 2

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Awards

Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive R&D 100 Awards

Sep 12

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New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain

Jul 22

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A magnified view of superconducting circuits.

computing

Superconducting Content-Addressable Memories (SuperCAMs)

Unconventional memory circuits can accelerate data processing in cyber sensing devices by reducing the latency of matching complex data patterns to specialized processing pipelines.

A schematic showing links between small uncrewed aerial vehicles and ground vehicles.

sensing

Precision Clock Synchronization for Advanced Sensing

Combined quantum networking and lasercom optical signaling techniques could impact advanced sensing applications such as geolocation with distributed systems.

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climate change

Aircraft Rerouting for Reduced Climate Impact (ARRCI)

With MIT AeroAstro, we are developing forecasts and decision support tools to aid air traffic controllers in avoiding the formation of persistent contrails, which are increasingly considered to have a substantial impact on climate warming.