Marin Halper has been appointed vice president of the Department of Defense and services center at MITRE, he announced on LinkedIn Tuesday
In his new role, Halper will lead efforts supporting the National Security Engineering Center within the company’s national security sector. He will supervise a workforce tasked with addressing challenges and synchronizing teams and programs. He will also spearhead the development and delivery of vital capabilities to the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Office of the Secretary of Defense and DOD agencies.
Marin Halper’s Career Summary
Halper has been with MITRE for over 22 years. He most recently served as vice president for cross-cutting priorities, responsible for overseeing the delivery of national security capabilities and services for industry partners, government agencies and foreign allies.
He also worked as cross-cutting priority director for non-traditional data employment for competition and founding technical director of Cross-Cutting Urgent Innovation Cell, a unit within MITRE committed to accelerating innovations critical to national security through analysis, prototyping and experimentation. In this role, Halper helped provide transformational data and automation capabilities to Joint All-Domain Command and Control and Strategic Competition.
The MITRE executive also served as associate chief engineer for innovation and integration, spearheading the alignment and oversight of the company’s research investments and other national security initiatives. As the innovation area leader for integrated sensing, processing and exploitation, Halper led research and development efforts focused on critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Halper spent over eight years as the algorithm lead for hyperspectral processing, leading the development of automated processing capabilities related to hyperspectral imagery. He started his career at MITRE in 2002 as a nanosystems researcher.