Principal Accomplishments

    lasercom terminalThis next-generation, low size, weight, and power lasercom terminal is being developed for NASA.

  • Lincoln Laboratory collaborated with industry to validate design standards for the critical technologies needed for Transformational Communications: RF signaling waveforms and formats, network protocols, and lasercom (pointing, acquisition and tracking, and optical waveforms). Under government supervision, validation of contractor hardware was performed on a Lincoln Laboratory–constructed test and evaluation infrastructure.
  • Optical free-space communication at high data rates (multiple gigabits per second) was demonstrated at efficiencies of better than 1 bit per photon.
  • The Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT) was deployed at the Information Operations Range for the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). JFCOM used LARIAT for warfighter training and experimentation in which LARIAT controlled experiments and provided background traffic for thousands of host computers.
  • Early on-orbit checkout of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) payload was performed using a Lincoln Laboratory–developed Ka-band "over-the-air" test capability at Camp Parks, California. The test terminal implemented key components of a new Ka-band waveform for the Air Force's Family of Advanced Beyond-line-of-sight Terminals. This waveform will be used for wideband readout of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensors on unmanned aerial vehicle platforms.
  • The Laboratory developed an "over-the-air" interim payload command-and-control (IC2) capability that will also be used for testing and calibrating the Advanced EHF (AEHF) payload. The IC2 capability was deployed to Lincoln Laboratory, Schriever AFB, and Vandenberg AFB.
  • The Paul Revere airborne laboratory participated in flight-test campaigns to assess the effectiveness of future air node ISR transport, communications backbone, and network middleware concepts.
  • A net-centric software toolkit was developed to enable the rapid deployment of multisensor applications. This toolkit was demonstrated in a cross-mission scenario, showing how space situational awareness and missile defense assets could be employed cooperatively.
  • Lincoln Laboratory participated in the most recent government-sponsored international evaluation of language-identification systems. The Laboratory's systems exhibited best-of-breed performance across most evaluation conditions.
  • The Laboratory developed the first system that performs both joint static and dynamic analysis of source code to find vulnerabilities in software. Quantitative evaluation of the system demonstrated that this hybrid system yields better vulnerability detection than either static or dynamic analysis alone.
  • Lincoln Laboratory developed a government reference implementation of a next-generation airborne networking waveform for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) and built and delivered a simulation and test environment for the JTRS enterprise networking services gateway.

 

 

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