Integrated Missile Defense Technology
To help defend our nation, deployed forces, and allies from ballistic missile attacks, we support the Missile Defense Agency in the development, deployment, testing, and enhancement of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). We continuously develop and enhance BMDS elements to enable them to keep up with rapidly evolving threats. Our staff are involved in the development and integration of these elements from the analysis and characterization of the worldwide ballistic missile threat to the fielding of new BMDS capabilities. We perform system and component engineering, algorithm development, advanced technology prototyping, and validation of system performance by means of testing and analysis.
Featured Projects
artificial intelligence
Machine Learning in Resource-Constrained Environments
Robust, trustworthy, and safe machine learning algorithms that operate in resource-constrained environments will improve missile defense and other target recognition and mission planning systems.
autonomous systems
Coordinating Teams of Autonomous Systems
We developed new distributed coordination algorithms for deploying multiple autonomous systems from a single set of operator commands.
Latest News
Laboratory Stories
My biggest shift — and challenge — has been learning how to leverage my background in computer science for missile defense.
Adam Kern
Machine Learning Researcher
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Integrated Missile Defense Technology
Advancing Our Research
Events
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Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology Workshop (AMMDT) 2025
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts
Featured Publications
Backdoor poisoning of encrypted traffic classifiers
Nov 28
IEEE Intl. Conf. Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW, 28 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2022.
System analysis for responsible design of modern AI/ML systems
Apr 19
arXiv, April 19, 2022.
Probabilistic coordination of heterogeneous teams from capability temporal logic specifications
Apr 1
IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett., Vol. 7, No. 2, April 2022, pp. 1190-7.
