Tikaboo Tales

The website for Lincoln Labs also says this A major part of our Surface Surveillance Program involves using advanced signal processing and adaptive-array techniques for locating communications emitters in high-interference environments. We’re also investigating how advanced processing techniques can maintain surveillance radar performance in hostile electronic environments. A second major emphasis is on Tactical Air Defense which includes a broad range of activities in the detection, location, identification, and engagement of air vehicles. We combine the modeling results of phenomenological investigations and testing insights from air vehicle measurements into system performance predictions. Our suite of state-of-the-art instrumentation sensors includes two business-sized jet aircraft with instrumented radar and infrared sensors and electronic countermeasure systems.

The Lincoln Labs report for 2001-2002 is finally on the web at Annual Report 2002 from MIT included in here is this Airborne Seeker Test Bed The Airborne Seeker Test Bed, in a Gulfstream II aircraft, has participated this year in two major test campaigns and infrastructure upgrades. One of the test campaigns was conducted in Nevada to evaluate the effectiveness of electronic countermeasures against a modern surface-to-air missile system and to measure bistatic radar cross sections. The second test utilized the seeker test bed's IR focal-plane arrays and IR seekers to test flare countermeasures.

MIT's exemption from FAA regs for their fleet

Document FAA-2001-8870-5 Docket Information Category Petitions Docket Status Pending Subcat. General Operating and Flight Rules Old Docket Num. Docket Subject Petition for Exemption Docket Title Exemption/Rulemaking - Masschusetts Institute of Technology Data Entry Date 02/05/2001 RIN # Action Office AFS Action Sought Docket Parties Stat. Deadline Comment Close Last Update 03/13/2002 Close Date Statutory Citation Submissions 7 Statutory Judicial Requirement CFR Citation Docket Attributes ALJ Hearing Archived Docket Abstract Document Information Document Type Petition(s) Data Entry Date 05/15/2003 Document Title MIT/Lincoln Laboratory - Exemption/Rulemaking Next Due Date Document Date 05/15/2003 Filing Date 05/15/2003 Answer Date Reply Date Next Due Item Federal Reg. Citation F. R. Pub. Date Submitter MIT/Lincoln Laboratory John G. Benkert 5C-212 244 Wood Street Lexingto