Draper Laboratory

Draper's BioMEMS R&D Center in Tampa, FL will be working in partnership with USF and its medical school for the application of MEMS technologies to medical and biological problems.Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Draper Laboratory is a research and development laboratory with unparalleled expertise in the areas of guidance, navigation, and control systems. Draper is among the leaders in fault-tolerant computing, reliable software development, modeling and simulation, and MEMS technology. It applies its expertise to a broad range of domains, including autonomous air, land, sea, and space systems; information integration; distributed sensors and networks; precision-guided munitions; air traffic flow management; military logistics; and biomedical engineering and chemical/biological defense.

These efforts are enhanced by our robust Independent Research and Development (IR&D) program through which we invest more than $20 million each year, supporting both internal efforts and collaborative projects with the country's leading universities. IR&D enables us to work on projects focused on technologies that we anticipate will meet the future near-term and long-term requirements of our sponsors, while allowing us to continuously refresh our core competencies.