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MIT Lincoln Lab wins R&D 100 for secure OS and quantum platform
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- →Magnetite provides a formally verified OS foundation for embedded systems, addressing security flaws in legacy code.
- →The Quantum Microsystems platform offers a scalable approach to integrating superconductor and semiconductor chips on wafers.
- →The 5G interference cancellation algorithm preserves antenna resources by removing signal noise without spatial separation.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has received three 2026 R&D 100 Awards for technologies transitioning to government and commercial use. The winners include Magnetite, a secure operating system built on the formally verified seL4 microkernel and Rust, designed to protect embedded systems in satellites and drones from cyberattacks. Another award recognizes the Quantum Microsystems platform, which integrates superconductor and semiconductor chips into wafer-scale systems using AI-driven routing to overcome interconnection bottlenecks. The third winner is an algorithm that cancels 5G interference on co-channel radio frequency devices by reconstructing and subtracting the interfering signal. These technologies address critical gaps in cybersecurity, quantum computing infrastructure, and communications resilience.
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