MIT Lincoln Labs is a research and development center located within the Hanscom Air Force Base (run by the US Air Force) in Lexington, MA. MIT Lincoln Labs receives its funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) and maintains deep ties to the US military and US Imperialism. The US Air Force "Life Cycle Management Center" (within Hanscom Air Force Base) currently holds a contract with MIT worth $20,140,117,466 over ten years (2015-2025) for the administration and operation of MIT Lincoln Labs.
With these federal resources, MIT Lincoln Labs provides broad support to the US military in areas including "Space Control," "Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense," "Communications Systems," "Cyber Security and Information Sciences," "Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems and Technology," "Advanced Technology," "Tactical Systems," "Homeland Protection," and "Air Traffic Control, and Engineering." In the 1970s, MIT Lincoln Labs developed "ground surveillance systems," which the US military deployed during its genocidal war against the people of Vietnam (see also: here and here). MIT Lincoln Labs provided broad support in communications technologies to the US military during the Gulf War. Following the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, MIT Lincoln Labs provided the US military with "rapid reaction" technologies, meant to quicken the US military's capacity to activate its systems of violence during battle. MIT Lincoln Labs boasts that its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) "enjoyed a dramatic, successful demonstration in combat in the war with Iraq." Since 2001, MIT Lincoln Labs' "Lexington Decision Support Center" (LDSC) has provided the US military with simulated "war games," which the military uses to test out tactics and decision-making in preparation for war.
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In addition to maintaining an explicit affiliation to MIT through its name and branding, MIT owns 20 or the 75 acres that MIT Lincoln Labs occupies within Hanscom Air Force Base.
The MIT School of Engineering also partners with MIT Lincoln Labs to run the "MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute," "a rigorous, world-class STEM program for talented rising high school seniors," in which students complete a four-week course which "teaches STEM skills through project-based, workshop-style" curriculum. Students participating in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in 2019 were able to choose between four-week project-based courses. Students participating in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in 2019 were able to choose between four-week project-based courses, in which they received instruction not only from MIT and MIT Lincoln Labs staff but also from weapons developers including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and Raytheon.
MIT Lincoln Labs presented to Boston University students at BU's Spring 2022 Engineering & Biotech Virtual Career Fair.
The MIT School of Engineering and MIT Lincoln Labs run the "MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute," "a rigorous, world-class STEM program for talented rising high school seniors," which "teaches STEM skills through project-based, workshop-style courses." Students participating in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in 2019 were able to choose between four-week project-based course, in which they received instruction not only from MIT and MIT Lincoln Labs staff but also from weapons developers including Raytheon. 2019 Summer Institute students who selected the Raytheon course worked with MIT staff and Raytheon employees to design and build "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (UAVs, i.e. drones) with "Synthetic Aperture Radar" (radar imaging) capacities, before competing against other teams "to form the best image of a secret challenge scene" using their respective UAVs at the end of the four-week program.
Raytheon's participation in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute is emblematic of the deep integration which exists between elite institutions of knowledge production (like MIT and MIT Lincoln Labs) and the US military industrial complex. From an early age, MIT the weapons companies with whom it collaborates guide impressionable high school and middle school students with a passion for STEM toward careers building products of death and destruction such as the unmanned land and aerial vehicles for company's like Raytheon.
The MIT School of Engineering and MIT Lincoln Labs run the "MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute," "a rigorous, world-class STEM program for talented rising high school seniors," which "teaches STEM skills through project-based, workshop-style courses." Students participating in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in 2019 were able to choose between four-week project-based course, in which they received instruction not only from MIT and MIT Lincoln Labs staff but also from weapons developers including Lockheed Martin. 2019 Summer Institute students who selected the Lockheed Martin course worked in small teams under the guidance of MIT researchers and Lockheed Martin employees to design and build unmanned ground vehicles ("Autonomous RACECARs"), before racing their respective unmanned ground vehicles against other teams at the end of the four-week program.
Lockheed Martin's participation in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute is emblematic of the deep integration which exists between elite institutions of knowledge production (like MIT and MIT Lincoln Labs) and the US military industrial complex. From an early age, MIT the weapons companies with whom it collaborates guide impressionable high school and middle school students with a passion for STEM toward careers building products of death and destruction such as the unmanned land and aerial vehicles for company's like Lockheed Martin.
The MIT School of Engineering and MIT Lincoln Labs run the "MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute," "a rigorous, world-class STEM program for talented rising high school seniors," which "teaches STEM skills through project-based, workshop-style courses." Students participating in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in 2019 were able to choose between four-week project-based courses, which included one course in which students received instruction from BAE Systems staff. 2019 Summer Institute students who chose this BAE Systems course worked in small teams under the guidance of with MIT researchers and BAE Systems employees to design and build "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (UAVs, i.e. drones), before competing against other teams in "racing challenges" using their respective UAVs at the end of the four-week program. In 2019, MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute students heard this presentation on "autonomous intelligence" by Dr. Jerry Wohletz from BAE Systems. In 2021, BWSI students heard from BAE Systems Vice President & General Manager Cheryl Paradis about her professional "journey" which led her to working at BAE.
BAE Systems' participation in the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute is emblematic of the deep integration which exists between elite institutions of knowledge production (like MIT) and the US military industrial complex. From an early age, MIT and the weapons companies with whom it collaborates guide impressionable high school and middle school students with a passion for STEM toward careers building products of death and destruction such as unmanned land and aerial vehicles for weapons companies like BAE Systems.
MIT Lincoln labs presented to Northeastern University students at NEU's February 2022 STEM career fair.
Tufts University hosted MIT Lincoln Labs to present to Tufts students at the University's 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 general career fairs. Tufts University also hosted MIT Lincoln Labs to present to Tufts students at the University's 2020 Engineering Alumni-Student Panel and Networking Industry Night.
The US Air Force, MIT, and MIT Lincoln Labs partner to run the "USAF-AI MIT AI accelerator." The USAF-AI MIT AI accelerator brings MIT faculty, students, and researches together with US military officials and MIT Lincoln Labs employees, who work together to ensure that the US Air Force has access to the latest technologies. According to the propaganda MIT put out about the project:
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) subsequently signed a cooperative agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to jointly create an Artificial Intelligence Accelerator hosted at MIT. The effort, known as the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator, leverages the combined expertise and resources of MIT and the Department of the Air Force. The AI Accelerator conducts fundamental research to enable rapid prototyping, scaling, and the ethical application of AI algorithms and systems to advance both the Department of the Air Force and society in general. A multidisciplinary team of embedded officers and enlisted Airmen join MIT faculty, researchers, and students to tackle some of the most difficult challenges facing our nation and the Department of the Air Force, ranging from the technical to the humanitarian.
In January of 2020, the AI Accelerator launched ten interdisciplinary projects, involving researchers from MIT Campus, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Department of the Air Force. The three-year projects, which encompass a total of 15 research workstreams, advance AI research in a broad range of areas, including weather modeling and visualization, optimization of training schedules, and autonomy for augmenting and amplifying human decision-making.
The AI Accelerator’s historic partnership embraces a robust and ongoing dialogue with America’s leading academics and technologists to help guide an AI future for the Department of Air Force that reflects our nation’s values.
The USAF-AI MIT AI accelerator project is emblematic of the deep integration which exists between elite institutions of knowledge production (like MIT) and the US military industrial complex.