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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Alfred Grasso, MITRE CEO and president, highlighted the company’s support of a Northern Virginia Technology Council program to help veterans find civilian jobs. The NVTC aims for its Veterans Employment Training project to help former soldiers use their skills for jobs in the information technology sector, MITRE said Monday. “In …

Former undersecretary of defense for policy Michèle Flournoy is joining the MITRE board of trustees, the company announced December 21. MITRE president and CEO Alfred Grasso said Flournoy’s national security expertise “will benefit MITRE’s work not only in the defense and homeland security areas but across the wide spectrum of agencies we support.” As …

Mitre Corp. has launched a new research and development laboratory in Bedford, Mass. to develop military and civilian technologies, the company announced Thursday. The nonprofit organization invested $51 million into the new three-story, 105,000 square-foot center as part of a larger $100 million initiative to expand the 103-acre campus in …

The MITRE Corporation has made Glassdoor.com‘s employees’ choice list of the 50 Best Places to Work, according to a company release. This is the fourth consecutive year the company made the list, this year taking the number four spot. The firm was ranked based on eight workplace factors including work/life balance, career …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This week saw a handful of moves across the government contracting community.  Todd Gautier was picked by L-3 to fill a newly created leadership role with the firm, while Ashley Vandersall Burke was named to head media communications at DynCorp. TASC will look to Larry Strang to head up cybersecurity, …

MITRE Corporation has announced that vice president Gary Gagnon was appointed corporate director of cybersecurity. Gagnon will work to develop and implement MITRE’s cybersecurity strategy and cyber work activities for government clients. “An increased focus and coordinated approach on cyber security and assurance underlie successful outcomes for all of our …

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 …

MITRE Corp. has agreed to continue providing technical support to the Airports Authority of India. MITRE said the two sides, which have been working together since 2006, formalized the partnership in Montreal last week. “This important partnership has enabled us to collaborate with AAI in addressing critical aviation issues and …