Rodney Slater and Mary Schapiro have joined Mitre Corp. as members of the company’s board of trustees. Slater is a former secretary of the Transportation Department and Schapiro most recently served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Mitre said Monday. “Their knowledge and experience will serve Mitre well in overseeing the seven federally […] More

John Kreger, formerly executive director of Mitre’s enterprise systems engineering office, has been appointed vice president and director of the nonprofit organization’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute. He will work to direct and oversee HSSEDI’s operations and resource management to carry out the Department of Homeland Security’s acquisition processes, risk and program management and information […] More

MITRE will team up with the University System of Maryland to operate a federally-funded research-and-development center in Rockville, Maryland that will carry out R&D, engineering and technical services in the cybersecurity field. UMD campuses in College Park and Baltimore County will help MITRE work with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in an effort to help promote public-private partnerships, MITRE said Friday. The […] More

Sarah MacConduibh, vice president of MITRE’s air force portfolio, has been named to the Boston Business Journal’s Mass High Tech Women to Watch list for 2014, MITRE said Monday. In her role, MacConduibh is responsible for 1,000 technical staff who work on technical priorities for the Air Force. Some of the focus areas her team works on […] More

Al Grasso, formerly president and CEO of Mitre, has been appointed to the board of directors of NetScout Systems. He joins the board as a class I director and is expected to be nominated at the Westford, Mass., company’s next annual meeting, to serve a second term that will run through 2021, NetScout said in […] More

Mitre has partnered with University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science to offer a fellowship opportunity to military and federal civilian employees in the field of systems engineering. The nonprofit company said Wednesday the 12-month Systems Engineering Fellowship for Federal Employees program seeks to provide future government technology leaders access to hands-on research and project experience at Mitre and […] More

Security Magazine has unveiled its list of the 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016 in an article published Sept. 1. Diane Ritchey writes colleagues and associates nominated the top security leaders based on leadership qualities and the impact of their security projects and programs on shareholders, their organizations, their peers, the public and the overall security landscape. The […] More

William LaPlante, vice president of Mitre‘s intelligence portfolio, has been appointed to co-chair the Defense Science Board’s task force on the design and acquisition of software for defense systems. He will lead the task force in efforts to examine the evolution of the Defense Department‘s software acquisition process over the past decade and offer recommendations to help DoD improve the […] More