Kenneth J. Cole

Kenneth J. Cole is the leader of the Electronics for Contested Space Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His research interests span radio-frequency systems, remote sensing, signal processing, and electronic warfare.

Kenneth began his career at Lincoln Laboratory in 2002 as an assistant technical staff member in the Air and Missile Defense Group, developing space-time adaptive processing algorithms and techniques for airborne surveillance radars including the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. He performed systems analysis and served as a technical advisor during foundational engineering, demonstrations, and test of the Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) architecture. Kenneth has contributed to the protection and resilience of a variety radar systems by prototyping, testing, and analyzing the impact of advanced electronic warfare technology. This work has spanned across a variety of cutting-edge systems from small, uncrewed aerial vehicles to the nation's largest and most sensitive radar systems.

In 2015, Kenneth became the assistant leader of the Advanced Sensor Systems and Test Beds Group in the Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology Division. In this role, he was responsible for the design and development of the next generation of airborne surveillance radar, bistatic radar, and electronic warfare systems. In 2020, he became the assistant leader of the Advanced Sensors and Techniques Group from the Space Systems and Technology Division, whose work is enabled by some of the premier space surveillance sensors in the world at the Lincoln Space Surveillance Complex and Reagan Test Site. His work prototypes and demonstrates the techniques and advanced sensors needed for tactically relevant space domain awareness and space control. Kenneth holds a BSE degree in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2002 and an MS degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 2006. He is also a Call Firefighter and EMT-B in Carlisle, MA.