The Mitre Corporation (stylized as The MITRE Corporation and MITRE) is an American not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) supporting several U.S. government agencies.
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Organization
Mitre is organized as follows:
Additionally, internal research and development explores new technologies and ways to apply existing tools and technologies.
Among other efforts, Mitre maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) project. Since 1999, the Mitre Corporation functions as editor and primary CNA of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). CVE is now the industry standard for vulnerability and exposure names, providing reference points for data exchange so that information security products and services can interoperate with each other.
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History
Under the leadership of C. W. Halligan, Mitre was formed in 1958 to provide overall direction to the companies and workers involved in the U.S. Air Force SAGE project. Most of the early employees were transferred to Mitre from the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where SAGE was being developed. In April 1959, a site was purchased in Bedford, Massachusetts, near Hanscom Air Force Base, to develop a new Mitre laboratory, which Mitre occupied in September 1959.
After the SAGE project ended in the early 1960s, the FAA selected Mitre to develop a similar system to provide automated air traffic control. The result of the project formed the National Airspace System (NAS), that is still in use today. To support the NAS project and continual operations with the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon, Mitre opened a second "main office" in McLean, Virginia.
Through the 1960s, Mitre developed and supported military Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) projects, including the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Mitre also worked on a number of projects with ARPA, including precursors to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). Since the 1960s, Mitre has developed or supported most DoD early warning and communications projects, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) and the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS).
In 1982, the Mitre Corporation authored a proposal for the State Department called "Cannabis Eradication in Foreign Western Nations." In this proposal, a plan was outlined to eradicate cannabis in participating nations within 121 days, for $19 million. The report discussed the use and safety considerations of paraquat. The plan would have been to aerially dispense paraquat over marijuana crops. One safety concern was the food crops grown alongside the marijuana crops being contaminated. A study conducted on rats by Imperial Chemical Industries was cited in the report, and claimed low health risks for paraquat. The U.S. Public Health Service commented on this study saying that due to the present squamous metaplasia in the respiratory tracts of the rats that "This study should not be used to calculate the safe inhalation dose of paraquat in humans."
During the 1980s, the German hacker Markus Hess used an unsecured Mitre Tymnet connection as an entry point for intrusions into U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA computer networks.
On July 10, 1985, mitre.org was the first .org domain name registered, and it remains in use by the company today.
On January 29, 1996, Mitre divided into two entities: The Mitre Corporation, to focus on its FFRDCs for DoD and FAA; and a new company, named Mitretek Systems (now called Noblis), to assume non-FFRDC work for other U.S. Government agencies.
In 2005, a team from Mitre competed in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and qualified in 23rd place for the final race.
Corporate governance
Chief executive officers
- 1958-1966: C.W. Halligan
- 1966-1969: Dr. John L. McLucas
- 1969-1986: Robert R. Everett
- 1986-1990: Charles A. Zraket
- 1990-1996: Barry M. Horowitz
- 1996-2000: Victor A. DeMarines
- 2000-2006: Martin C. Faga
- 2006-2017: Alfred Grasso
- 2017-Present: Jason Providakes
Board of Trustees
Awards, honors, and accomplishments
Over the years, Mitre has received awards for corporate achievements as well as for achievements of its scientists, researchers, and engineers. A sampling includes:
- In 2015, Forbes Magazine named Mitre one of America's Best Employers.
- In 2013, Mitre was named a 2013 CSO40 Award winner by the International Data Group's CSO Magazine. The CSO40 Awards recognize 40 organizations for security projects and initiatives that demonstrate outstanding business value and thought leadership.
- In 2011 and 2012, InformationWeek named Mitre to its InformationWeek 500, an annual ranking of the nation's most innovative users of business technology.
- In 2011, for the second time, Mitre's knowledge management successes have earned the corporation a North American Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award, which recognizes organizations for exceptional knowledge management and knowledge sharing practices.
- In June 2008, Mitre was presented with the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for "significant contributions in communications, command and control decision-making, intelligence, cyberspace, and warfighter field support, as well as research and development."
- In July 2008, Mitre was awarded the Air Force Association's Theodore Von Karman award for "the most outstanding contribution in the field of engineering and science."
- In July 2008, Mitre's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), as part of an ADS-B team of 26 public and private sector groups, was selected for the 2007 Collier Trophy for its efforts in conceptualizing, developing, and implementing a fundamental, so-called "cornerstone capability" for the future of the national airspace system.
- Mitre has been included on annual lists of several magazines:
- Glassdoor.com has named Mitre one of the "50 Best Places to Work" for five consecutive years;
- The Boston Globe has named Mitre to its "Top Places to Work" list for four years;
- Fortune included Mitre in its "100 Best Companies to Work For" for ten consecutive years
- Computerworld included Mitre in its "100 Best Places to Work in IT" list, for eight consecutive years.
Mitre employees have created more than 30 technologies available for licensing, generated more than 60 packages of downloadable software, and been granted more than 110 US patents.
References
External links
- Official website
- Mitre at Market Visual
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