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  • Mitre Unveils Cyber Insight Framework; Blake Strom Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Unveils Cyber Insight Framework; Blake Strom Comments

    Mitre Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity framework that seeks to offer insight into the behavior of cyber attackers once they penetrate a computer network. The Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge framework is designed to help organizations identify and classify cyber threats, Mitre said Tuesday. “Practitioners know there is a lot of guidance available about the […] More

  • John Kreger to Lead Mitre’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering, Development Institute; Alfred Grasso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Kreger to Lead Mitre’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering, Development Institute; Alfred Grasso Comments

    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

  • FBI Certifies Telos ID’s Biometric Systems; Mark Griffin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Certifies Telos ID’s Biometric Systems; Mark Griffin Comments

    Telos ID has obtained the FBI’s certification for the company’s fingerprint capture and enrollment software. The FBI’s criminal justice information services division and Mitre Corp. collaborated to review Telos ID’s MobileAssure fingerprint web capture and MobileAssure enrollment software, Telos ID said Tuesday. “Telos ID continues to work closely with the FBI and other law enforcement […] More

  • Mitre Rolls Out New Airport Capacity Analysis Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Rolls Out New Airport Capacity Analysis Tool

    Mitre Corp. has released a new simulation tool that is designed to help analyze airport capacity. The runwaySimulator has been turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration following the development phase under the company’s research and development program, Mitre said Tuesday. Mitre used the tool to estimate arrivals and departures at major U.S. airports for the FAA. […] More

  • Executive Profile: Jean Cain, Noblis VP of HR and Organizational Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Jean Cain, Noblis VP of HR and Organizational Development

    Jean Cain serves as vice president of human resources and organizational development for Noblis, where she is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the departments. She oversees operations in areas like employee engagement, retention and development of talent, delivery of benefits and compensation programs and support of work/life balance and wellness programs. Before Cain joined Noblis in […] More

  • Carson Zimmerman: MITRE Proposes Threat-Based Defense for Government, Commercial Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carson Zimmerman: MITRE Proposes Threat-Based Defense for Government, Commercial Networks

    Carson Zimmerman, a MITRE principal cybersecurity engineer, has written a book intended to help government, academic and commercial organizations adopt strategies to defend their cyber-dependent information technology systems. He discussed the motivations behind his book “Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center” in a question-and-answer session that was produced as part of the company’s […] More

  • MITRE's Lillian Ryals: FAA-Stakeholder Collaboration Key to NextGen Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Lillian Ryals: FAA-Stakeholder Collaboration Key to NextGen Program

    MITRE has sought to help the aviation community collaborate with the Federal Aviation Administration meet the goals of the Next Generation Air Transportation System program, Aviation Today reported Thursday. Juliet Van Wagenen writes that the company’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development has released a report to assess the progress of the program based on the FAA’s implementation plan and midterm concept of operations […] More

  • UMD System to Help MITRE Run Cyber R&D Support Hub; Alfred Grasso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 help promote public-private partnerships, MITRE said Friday. The […] More

  • MITRE's Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book

    Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer at MITRE Corp., has outlined strategies to bolster computer network defense across the government, industry, academia and nonprofit sector in his new book. The book, entitled Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, contains best practices based on lessons learned from MITRE’s previous projects with U.S. military and civilian clients, MITRE said Wednesday. Zimmerman […] More

  • Bob McDonald: VA Taps MITRE to Help Assess Programs, Practices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob McDonald: VA Taps MITRE to Help Assess Programs, Practices

    MITRE Corp. will work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to assess healthcare processes throughout the VA under a contract with undisclosed terms. The nonprofit research and development organization will serve as program integrator and coordinate the results of third-party assessments under the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014, the VA said Thursday. Bob McDonald, veterans affairs secretary, said the independent assessment “will provide the department a […] More

  • MITRE's Sarah MacConduibh Named Woman to Watch by the Boston Business Journal; Alfred Grasso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Sarah MacConduibh Named Woman to Watch by the Boston Business Journal; Alfred Grasso Comments

    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

  • Jim Cook of MITRE Named to 2014 Federal 100 List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Cook of MITRE Named to 2014 Federal 100 List

    James Cook, MITRE Corp. vice president and director of the Center for Enterprise Modernization, has been named to Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 list, the company said Wednesday. Cook first appeared on the list in 2007 for his work with the Internal Revenue Service. The list of award winners is based on employees that “have gone […] More