North Star Labs

Research

Research is not our department. It's our staff.

North Star Labs is built around scientists who take hard problems from open question to fielded capability, working alongside the strongest research institutions in the country.

Who we work with

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Joint research through the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator, where our team and Laboratory scientists work side by side on large-scale network sensing.

AFRL / AFWERX

Active USAF Phase II STTR, carrying joint research into operational Air Force environments.

Defense Innovation Unit

Validation partnership, including deployment in disconnected, classified environments.

Carnegie Mellon University

The research team's academic home and an active collaboration channel for detection science.

DARPA

Active subcontract work under DARPA research programs.

For research partnerships.

Working on a hard problem in our domain? We would like to hear from you.

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