MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Established	1951
Research type	Advanced science/technology
Budget	$1.01 billion
Director	Melissa G. Choi
Location	Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Campus	Hanscom Air Force Base
Operating agency	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website	www.ll.mit.edu

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Research and development activities focus on long-term technology development as well as rapid system prototyping and demonstration. Its core competencies are in sensors, integrated sensing, signal processing for information extraction, decision-making support, and communications. These efforts are aligned within ten mission areas. The laboratory also maintains several field sites around the world.

The laboratory transfers much of its advanced technology to government agencies, industry, and academia, and has launched more than 100 start-ups.^[1]