C.S. Draper Laboratory

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit research and devel-opment (R&D) organization serving the national interest in applied research, engineering devel-opment, technology transfer, and advanced technical education. Sponsors include the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, DARPA, NASA, and other government agencies. More than 90% of the Lab’s work is government-funded, but Draper also performs work for the commercial sector and has a robust IR&D program. Draper employs more than 900 engineers, scientists, and technicians who work on a wide variety of projects in core business areas—strategic, space systems, tactical systems, special opera-tions, geospatial systems, biomedical engineering, and energy. Competencies leveraged in Draper’s work are guidance, navigation and control: inertial, strategic and tactical systems; miniature low-power systems; information & decision systems; complex, reliable systems; and biomedical engineering.