2011 Annual Report - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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LEADERSHIP Reed Porada and Tim Braje use the Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT) to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber defense techniques. Dr. Marc A. Zissman ■ As part of its cyber range support efforts, the Laboratory developed a technique for high-fidelity, low-level instrumentation of systems under test. Instrumentation at the hardware level permits observation of the internal state of the system without injecting events or leaving artifacts that can change the system’s operation. Software processing engines convert the raw data to high-level applicationspecific events, which are input to analysis tools for cyber testing and verification, reverse engineering, and defensive detection. Dr. Robert K. Cunningham Mr. Lee M. Rossey FUTURE OUTLOOK Mr. Joshua W. Haines Dr. William W. Streilein ■ Lincoln Laboratory will continue to analyze mission-critical systems to ensure operations in a contested cyber domain. During the next year, the Laboratory will complete assessments of two space systems and an enterprise information system. ■ Work will continue on expanding the depth and breadth of the cyber tests the Laboratory conducts and supports. The set of special-purpose tools required for these tests will be extended. Testing will expand into the area of design-time analysis, including examination of cryptographic proofs for correctness. ■ Using its connection to the Department of Defense’s Information Operations (IO) Range, the Laboratory will support evaluations of critical cyber tools. The IO Range permits DoD organizations to leverage diverse, unique cyber test assets, distributed at sites throughout the United States, in a location-transparent manner. ■ The Laboratory will continue to architect and implement solutions for securing communications of modern tactical applications (such as unmanned aerial systems and mobile receivers) in dynamic mission environments, ensuring the resulting security solutions are easy for warfighters to use, satisfy existing security policies, and require little bandwidth and energy. MIT Lincoln Laboratory 33
mission areas INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY To expand intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, Lincoln Laboratory conducts research and development in advanced sensing, signal and image processing, automatic target classification, decision support systems, and high-performance computing. By leveraging these disciplines, the Laboratory produces novel ISR system concepts for both surface and undersea surveillance applications. Sensor technology for ISR includes passive and active electro-optical systems, surface surveillance radar, radio-frequency (RF) geolocation, and undersea acoustic surveillance. Increasingly, the work extends from sensors and sensor platforms to include the processing, exploitation, and dissemination architectures that connect sensors to operational users. Prototype ISR systems developed from successful concepts are then transitioned to industry and the user community. PRINCIPAL 2011 ACCOMPLISHMENTS ■ In support of national needs for widearea persistent surveillance, the Laboratory continued to develop and demonstrate end-to-end systems for collection and exploitation of wide-area motion imagery data. The Laboratory conducted airborne testing with giga pixelclass visible and infrared sensors coupled with onboard data processing and a ground exploitation tool set. The processing and exploitation systems were deployed to a forward operating location. ■ The Laboratory developed a highresolution, long-wave infrared immersive video system that supports day/night force protection. The Wide-area Infrared System for Persistent 360° Surveillance (WISP-360) effort includes rapidly developing a custom sensor, as well as developing the processing and 34 2011 Annual Report The Wide-area Infrared System for Persistent 360° Surveillance provides situational awareness in support of force protection applications. The sensor shown at left is secured inside a housing that is then mounted on a tower for surveillance applications. exploitation software. The system will provide context and cueing for other ISR sensors, and long-term data storage for forensic exploitation. ■ The Airborne Ladar Imaging Research Testbed (ALIRT) system was integrated onto a government-furnished aircraft and delivered to a sponsor for operational use. A next-generation ladar system with enhanced sensitivity and discrimination performance is under development for foliage penetration and other missions. ■ The Laboratory continued to develop novel radar discrimination modes for fixed and moving surface targets. Additional experimentation resulted in the refinement of signal processing algorithms and enhancements that increase system robustness to RF interference. ■ The Laboratory developed and initiated deployment of a real-time fused situational awareness software application for manned and unmanned aircraft ISR missions. The open architecture specifications, standards, and technologies are serving as a prototype for future networked ground stations and exploitation applications. ■ The Laboratory has developed technology for the use of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) in antisubmarine warfare. Autonomous detection algorithms that process UUV sensor array data to pro duce contact reports were developed, implemented, and tested in at-sea experiments. ■ Development began on a prototype software suite for automated exploitation of persistent wide-area surveillance
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