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Draper Laboratory, officially known as The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., is an American not-for-profit research and development organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1932 as part of MIT, it became an independent institution in 1973 and is named after Charles Stark Draper, a pioneer in flight instrumentation and inertial navigation. Draper specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technological solutions for problems in national security, space exploration, healthcare, and energy. The organization’s innovations include the development of guidance technology for ballistic missiles and the Apollo moon landings, as well as more recent contributions to biomedical engineering, such as drug delivery systems and wearable technology. Draper continues to support both government and commercial clients, leveraging expertise in areas such as cyber-physical systems, microsystems, and biotechnology to advance and apply cutting-edge technologies.