• Breadcrumb MIT News Lincoln Laboratory technologies win seven R&D 100 Awards for 2025 Lincoln Laboratory technologies win seven R&D 100 Awards for 2025 Press Contact: Previous imageNext image Seven technologies developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, either wholly or with collaborators, have earned 2025 R&D 100 Awards. • This annual awards competition recognizes the year’s most significant new technologies, products, and materials available on the marketplace or transitioned to use. • An independent panel of technology experts and industry professionals selects the winners. • “Winning an R&D 100 Award is a recognition of the exceptional creativity and effort of our scientists and engineers. • The awarded technologies reflect Lincoln Laboratory’s mission to transform innovative ideas into real-world solutions for U.S. • national security, industry, and society,” says Melissa Choi, director of Lincoln Laboratory.
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- MIT Lincoln Laboratory has earned seven R&D 100 Awards for 2025, the annual competition that honors the most significant new technologies in the marketplace or in transition to use. The winning inventions span national‑security and commercial applications, including the TOSSIT chemical‑vapor sensor that can be thrown or drone‑deployed to detect nerve agents and toxic aerosols, and WiSPR, a millimeter‑wave radar and communications system that protects U.S. Army armored vehicles with low‑probability‑of‑detection operation. Other awardees advance 3‑D chip integration, superconducting electronics inspection, and laser‑communications terminal design. Since 2010, Lincoln Laboratory has accumulated 108 R&D 100 Awards.
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