Editing Draper Laboratory (section)

{{Short description|US research and development organization}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Draper Laboratory
| image = Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.jpg
| logo = Draper Laboratory logo.png
| type = Independent, non-profit corporation
| industry = [[Arms industry|Defense]] <br /> [[Space industry|Space]] <br /> [[Biomedical]] <br /> [[Energy industry|Energy]]
| foundation = MIT Confidential Instrument Development Laboratory (1932)<ref name="CSDLFUNDINGUNIVERSE">
{{cite web | title = The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.—History| publisher = Funding Universe| url = http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/the-charles-stark-draper-laboratory-inc-history/| access-date = 2013-12-28}}</ref><br>The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (1973)
| key_people = [[Dr. Jerry M. Wohletz]], President and CEO (2022–)<ref>{{cite press release| author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->| title = Our Leadership | url = https://www.draper.com/about/leadership | location = Cambridge, MA| publisher = The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.| access-date = 6 March 2023}}</ref>
| num_employees = 2,000<ref name="ABOUTDRAPER">{{cite web| title = Profile: Draper| publisher = The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.| url = http://draper.com/profile.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110612194412/http://www.draper.com/profile.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2011-06-12| access-date = 2013-12-28}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web| last = Levy| first = Mark| title = The top 10 employers in Cambridge—and how to contact them| work = Cambridge Day| date = 10 October 2009| url = http://www.cambridgeday.com/2009/10/10/the-top-10-employers-in-cambridge-%E2%80%94-and-how-to-contact-them/}}</ref>
| homepage = [https://www.draper.com/ www.draper.com]
| location = 555 [[Technology Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts)|Technology Square]], Cambridge, MA 02139-3563
| locations = 4
| revenue = $765 million (fiscal year 2023)<ref name="Craft">{{cite web |title=The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory revenue |url=https://craft.co/draper/revenue |website=Craft |publisher=Craft Co. |access-date=29 February 2020 |ref=Craft}}</ref>
}}

'''Draper Laboratory''' is an American [[non-profit]] research and development organization, headquartered in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]; its official name is '''The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc'''.<ref>
{{cite web |url= http://www.cimit.org/about-consortium-draper-laboratory.html |title= Founding Consortium Institution: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. |publisher= Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) |url-status= dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213012827/http://www.cimit.org/about-consortium-draper-laboratory.html |archive-date = 2011-12-13}}</ref> The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy.

The laboratory was founded in 1932 by [[Charles Stark Draper]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the '''MIT Instrumentation Laboratory'''. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the [[Apollo Guidance Computer]], the first [[silicon]] [[integrated circuit]]-based computer.<ref name="DRAPERAT25">
{{cite web  |last1=Morgan  |first1=Christopher  |last2=O'Connor  |first2=Joseph  |last3=Hoag  |first3=David  |title=Draper at 25—Innovation for the 21st Century  |publisher=The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.  |year=1998  |url=http://www.draper.com/Documents/draperat25.pdf  |access-date=2013-12-28  |url-status=dead  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501071138/http://www.draper.com/Documents/draperat25.pdf |archive-date=2014-05-01}}
</ref> It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization.<ref name="CSDLFUNDINGUNIVERSE"/><ref name="DRAPERAT25"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/catalog/inter.resea.drape.html |title=Draper Laboratory |work= MIT Course Catalog 2013–2014 |publisher=MIT}}</ref>

The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and [[microelectromechanical systems]] and multichip module technology.<ref name="CSDL-Overview">{{cite web |title=Draper Overview, our Global Challenges Initiative, and Selected Projects |url=https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/sites/default/files/attached-files/stephanie_golmon_smead_scholar_alum_update_12apr2019.pdf |publisher=The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. |access-date=2021-02-24}}</ref>