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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Federally funded research and development center in Massachusetts
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on behalf of the United States Department of Defense. Located at Hanscom Air Force Base in Lexington, Massachusetts, it was established in 1951 to develop an air defense system for the United States. An outgrowth of wartime radar research at MIT, the lab's first project produced the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), the first large-scale computerized command-and-control network. After SAGE, the laboratory's mission broadened into radar, space surveillance, satellite communications, and solid-state electronics. Among its largest spinoffs were the MITRE Corporation, spun off in 1958 to manage SAGE deployment, and Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 by former Lincoln staff. The laboratory's defense work has centered on sensor technology, signal processing, and system prototyping; it designs and tests advanced systems, then transfers the...
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