Welcome to the HNI Lantern page. Located at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, The Lantern is the installation’s Collaboration and Innovation Center. It serves as a keynode for future joint warfighting experiments and has the capacity to provide a Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and Cyber collaborative environment to support Research and Development (R&D), Developmental Test (DT)/Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) preparation, technical baseline establishment exercises, modeling and simulation, experimentation, acquisition program/project development and direct warfighter support to program offices. The facility has been providing programs access to the tools and data required at multiple classification levels since 1993.
Mission: to coordinate and partner with local, regional and national leaders within state and federal governments, Air and Army National Guard Units, Reserve Units, laboratories, FFRDCs, industry, academia, non-traditional capabilities, and those involved with STEM efforts to create a physical and business environment to enhance and extend leading-edge advances in all areas of defense applications, cyber defense techniques with multi-use purposes, and public safety.to coordinate and partner with local, regional and national leaders within state and federal governments, Air and Army National Guard Units, Reserve Units, laboratories, FFRDCs, industry, academia, non-traditional capabilities, and those involved with STEM efforts to create a physical and business environment to enhance and extend leading-edge advances in all areas of defense applications, cyber defense techniques with multi-use purposes, and public safety.
Executes mission under three core areas:
- Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) facility: Lab as a Service (LaaS)
- Collaboration and Innovation
- Office of Research and Technology Application (ORTA)
