Evans began at Lincoln Research facility in 1988 as a specialized staff part. In the wake of being named overseer of Lincoln Lab in 2006, he promptly started working with research center pioneers and staff to foster new mission regions and projects in light of public requirements.
He collaborated with many others at the laboratory to establish a substantial homeland security mission area for the production of sensors and data integration systems for the Department of Homeland Security’s requirements. New homeland air defense capabilities and chemical and biological sensor systems for defending against advanced threats were developed by the laboratory under Evans’ leadership.
Afterward, the research facility laid out a network protection mission region to address the unique dangers presented by cyberattacks. Through many new projects, Lincoln Lab analysts created innovation to aid the security of guard and regular citizen digital organizations and to work on the digital versatility of equipment and programming for new registering frameworks.
The research center likewise begun huge new work in biotechnology and human frameworks to foster high level frameworks for checking wellbeing status and aiding injury recuperation for the Military and different patrons. Evans instructed the laboratory to quickly apply its biotechnology resources to the issues of allocating medical resources, health monitoring, automatic contact tracing, and virus dispersion analysis during the Covid-19 pandemic. Large numbers of these innovations keep on being improved and changed to new applications.