Wanting to know the extent of Mitre’s touch, Forbes launched an investigation to pull Mitre’s staggering range of work from the shadows. Read all about it here:
Mitre Corp. runs some of the U.S. government's most hush-hush science and tech labs. The cloak-and-dagger R&D shop might just be the most important organization you've never heard of.hether it’s an invisible Aston Martin or an exploding pen, whenever James Bond needs a high-tech edge, he heads right for Q and his secretive MI6 lab. In the real world, American agents often rely on a less clandestine, but far better-funded group.
While at Mitre, engineer Matt Edman partnered with the FBI to take down the infamous online drug bazaar, Silk Road.“If there’s a national security or public interest [problem], Mitre probably has a hand in it,” says former Mitre cybersecurity engineer Matt Edman. Bald, bearded and baritone-voiced, Edman could have worked at his pick of hot Silicon Valley tech companies, but instead focused his talents on challenging national security problems.
While out of the public eye, Mitre’s history is remarkable. The nonprofit company was born out of the Cold War, spun out of perhaps the world’s most famous tech campus, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . In the late 1950s, facing the threat of a Soviet nuclear strike, the U.S. Air Force called on MIT to help it create an air defense system that would help it detect incoming bombers. The institute came up with the Semi-Automated Ground Environment .
The $200,000 contract states: “As the pandemic progresses, the contractor will identify, collect and analyze data to enable near real-time learning to state and local leaders for the eventual appropriate retrograde of NPI implementation efforts.” In other words, Mitre is helping America’s leaders decide when and how to open up again.
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