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MITRE. Lawrence Kerr UI SFS Spring 2013. Mission. “ As a public interest company, MITRE works in partnership with the government applying systems engineering and advanced technology to address issues of critical national importance .” http://mitre.org/about/mission.html. Overview.

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  1. MITRE Lawrence Kerr UI SFS Spring 2013

  2. Mission “As a public interest company, MITRE works in partnership with the government applying systems engineering and advanced technology to address issues of critical national importance.” http://mitre.org/about/mission.html

  3. Overview • Non-profit • Public interest • Primary locations • Bedford, MA • McLean, VA • Other locations • 24 states, DC • Belgium, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Taiwan, UK

  4. Mission Areas • Acquisition and systems analysis • Airspace development, safety and security • Command and control • Cybersecurity • Emerging and disruptive technologies • Networking • Health transformation • Homeland security • Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance • Large-scale enterprise transformation

  5. History • Founded in July 1958 • SAGE • Semi-Automatic Ground Environment • Real-time • Air defense • Centralized Detection Center • Collect data via telephone line

  6. History • SAGE opportunities • Basis for modern command and control • Air Force partnership • Work applied later to air traffic control with FAA • National Airspace System • MLS RDBMS • CVE

  7. Now • Manages FFRDCs • Federally Funded Research and Development Center • Government agency sponsorship • Long-term, complex problems • Limits on activities • Manufacturing • Competing with industry • Working for commercial entities • Broad range of research areas

  8. FFRDCs • Department of Defense • National Security Engineering Center • Federal Aviation Administration • Center for Advanced Aviation System Development • Internal Revenue Service/Department of Veteran’s Affairs • Center for Enterprise Modernization • Department of Homeland Security • Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute • U.S. Courts • Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center

  9. National Security Engineering Center • BACN • Battlefield Airborne Communications Node • Airborne communications gateway • Bridge disparate networks • COIN Collector • COunter-Insurgency intelligence collecting • Smartphone app • In field information data input and sharing • Marines in Afghanistan, Army

  10. Center for Advanced Aviation System Development • Next Generation Air Transportation System(NextGen) • Better travel experience • traveler, flight performance, environment • Enhanced Safety • Data sharing • Weather • Hazards • Security issues

  11. Center for Enterprise Modernization • hData • Secure exchange of electronic health records • Patients, physicians, hospitals, insurance companies • Allow for mobile access and interaction between parties • TACT • TAxpayer Communications Taskgroup • 200 million notices per year • Nearly 1000 different types • Modernize IRS taxpayer correspondences • Process, organization, technology

  12. Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute • RAMBO • Resilient Architecture for Mission Assurance and Business Objectives • 5 steps • Protect and prepare • Monitor and respond • Constrain and isolate • Maintain and recover • Adapt

  13. Employer • As of 2011, 7887 employees • Glassdoor.com, “50 Best Places to Work”, 2012 • The Boston Globe, “#6 Top Place to Work”, 2012 • Computerworld “100 Best Places to Work in IT”, 2005-2011 • ComPsych Corporation, “Health at Work” Silver Award, 2012

  14. Employment • Apply through mitre.org • Security clearance • Secret, Top Secret, SCI • As of March 28, 2013 • 210 open positions • 62 related to computer security* • Policy to technical • Malware, vulnerability analysis, (maritime) cyber security, cyber command, networks, forensics, intelligence… *search term: cyber

  15. Bedford, MA Source: http://www.bestplaces.net/

  16. McLean, VA Source: http://www.bestplaces.net/

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