MITRE Corporation

The MITRE Corporation

Type	Not-for-profit corporation
Founded	1958; 59 years ago (1958)
Headquarters	Bedford, MA and McLean, VA, United States
Key people	Jason Providakes President & CEO
Revenue	US$ 1.484 billion
Number of employees	7,613
Website	www.mitre.org

The MITRE Corporation (stylized as MITRE) is an American not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) supporting several U.S. government agencies.

MITRE is organized as follows:

Additionally, internal research and development explores new technologies and ways to apply existing tools and technologies.

Since 1999, the MITRE Corporation functions as editor and primary CNA of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). CVE is now the industry standard for vulnerability and exposure names, providing reference points for data exchange so that information security products and services can interoperate with each other.

Under the leadership of C. W. Halligan, MITRE was formed in 1958 to provide overall direction to the companies and workers involved in the U.S. Air Force SAGE project. Most of the early employees were transferred to MITRE from the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where SAGE was being developed. In April 1959, a site was purchased in Bedford, Massachusetts, near Hanscom Air Force Base, to develop a new MITRE laboratory, which MITRE occupied in September 1959.

After the SAGE project ended in the early 1960s, the FAA selected MITRE to develop a similar system to provide automated air traffic control. The result of the project formed the National Airspace System (NAS), that is still in use today. To support the NAS project and continual operations with the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon, MITRE opened a second "main office" in McLean, Virginia.