Mitre will continue to operate a federally funded research and development center for the Treasury Department through 2023 under a contract extension. The Center for Enterprise Modernization FFRDC helps the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies at the Treasury meet mission-critical requirements by providing data-driven analysis, integration, systems engineering and decision …
Read More »Mitre’s Samuel Visner Recognized for National Cybersecurity FFRDC Leadership
Samuel Visner, director at the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center operated by Mitre, has been selected for an annual list of prominent executives in Washington’s technology industry. Washingtonian recognized Visner on the publication’s 2018 Tech Titan list for managing the center that develops cybersecurity approaches for the private sector, …
Read More »IBM Unit to Build Supercomputer-Based Global Storm-Scale Forecast Model With UCAR, NCAR
An IBM business has teamed up with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the National Center for Atmospheric Research to develop a global model designed to predict hurricanes, thunderstorms and other weather patterns at both regional and local scales. IBM’s The Weather Company will combine its experience in meteorological science …
Read More »Patricia Steinbrech Appointed to Lead Mitre-Operated Federal Healthcare R&D Center
Patricia Steinbrech, former chief information officer and senior vice president of information technology and operations at ACT, has been named VP and director of a federally funded research and development center Mitre manages for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She will oversee Mitre’s CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC and the health missions of federal agencies …
Read More »AcademyHealth Partners With Mitre-Operated R&D Center to Help Address Health IT Challenges
A Mitre-run federally funded research and development center and AcademyHealth have forged a partnership to help the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services address health information technology challenges in the U.S. Mitre said Wednesday AcademyHealth and the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC will study the …
Read More »MITRE’s Roger Furr on Nonprofit Org’s Role as Government’s ‘Bridge’ to Commercial Sector
Roger Furr leads work to form and administer both contracts and subcontracts in his role as an executive director at nonprofit research organization MITRE Corp. MITRE operates federally-funded research and development centers for the government that act as hubs for agencies and commercial companies to collaborate on scientific research, analysis, …
Read More »Aerospace Corp. Aims to Increase Position, Navigation & Timing Service Resiliency Via New Study
The Aerospace Corp. has launched a study that aims to make position, navigation and timing services more resilient through the development of a user-device platform that will work to combine PNT signals from multiple sources. The nonprofit organization said Monday it will use an open-source method to develop a user-device …
Read More »Mark Maybury Named Mitre VP, Chief Security Officer, National Cybersecurity FFRDC Director
Mark Maybury, a vice president and chief technology officer at Mitre, has been named VP and chief security officer at the non-profit organization. Maybury will also serve as director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center that Mitre runs for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mitre said Friday. He …
Read More »Mitre-Run R&D Center Teams Up With NHIT Collaborative; Luis Belen Comments
A Mitre-operated federally funded research and development center and the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved have forged a partnership in an effort to address health disparities and improve health for underserved communities. The CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC will work with the NHIT Collaborative to include underserved …
Read More »UMD System to Help MITRE Run Cyber R&D Support Hub; Alfred Grasso Comments
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 …
Read More »MITRE Operated R&D Center Renamed by Department of Defense
MITRE Corporation-operated Department of Defense Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Federally Funded Research and Development Center has been renamed the National Security Engineering Center. MITRE’s role in operation remains unchanged. “The new name better reflects the broad spectrum of our work program for customers across the DoD and Intelligence Community and …
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