MITRE (tool)

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The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors'' critical needs. MITRE manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DoD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC), one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development), one for the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the Center for Enterprise Modernization), and one for the Department of Homeland Security (the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute). We believe that each FFRDC benefits from being part of an independent, not-for-profit company managing multiple FFRDCs. MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve our sponsors'' problems in the near-term and in the future. MITRE has 7,000 scientists, engineers and support specialists65 percent of whom have Masters or Ph.D. degrees. Staff members work on hundreds of different projects across the company, demanding a high level of technical, operational, and domain knowledge. The MITRE Corporation has two principal locations: Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. MITRE also has additional sites across the country and around the world.