The Maritime Security Laboratory (MSL) conducts applied research aimed at reducing maritime vulnerabilities.   

MSL develops and fields technologies addressed at threats across multiple timescales, ranging from terrorist incidents to coastal hazards.   These assets include sensors, vehicles, and models focused on the surface, underwater, and urban realms.

MSL has substantial expertise operating in complex urban estuaries and harbors where currents, salinity, temperature, water level, and acoustic properties fluctuate in both space and time.  In addition, significant vessel traffic renders mission execution challenging.

Through close collaboration with government agencies, our R&D techniques are deployed to ports and cities throughout the world for anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).