Draper's Inertial Measurement capability enables guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) systems and instruments that do not rely on any external references for navigation. For high accuracy in harsh environments, Draper's inertial design and development work includes the strapdown and gimballed systems used in land, sea, air and space systems. Draper designs instruments and sensors in a variety of technologies—mechanical, optical and micro-optical, MEMS, atom-based—to meet customers' performance, cost and size goals across a wide range of environments for applications ranging from strategic military platforms to squad-level systems to commercial systems.
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Mentoring the Engineers of the Future
For more than 50 years, Draper has provided experiential research opportunities for graduate students across a wide range of disciplines. Applications are now open.

Diversity Leads to Innovation
Like most work at Draper, we are taking a systematic and strategic approach to IDEA.

Filling in the Details: Teaching AI to Complete our Picture of the Moon
Draper researchers have figured out how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to create synthetic high-resolution images from low-resolution pictures—an advancement that will be instrumental in enhancing space flight and moon landings.

FINDER Team Blazes Trail Toward Mental Health Crisis Tool
Draper is known for solving real-world problems, and our Finding Integrated Neural Determinants for Emerging Risk (FINDER) team was selected by the DoD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a behavioral health tool to help clinicians identify patients at risk of suicide.