Mitre executives Wilson Wang and Jay Schnitzer have assumed senior vice president roles at the McLean, Virginia-based nonprofit research company. Wang will continue to serve as chief financial officer with oversight of the company’s financial analytics, enterprise accounting, contracts and pricing, financial planning and analysis and internal audi...
Mitre has secured a $474 million option contract to continue operating the U.S. Air Force-funded National Security Engineering Center, which conducts research work in cybersecurity and other technical areas. The nonprofit will continue to manage the NSEC federally funded research and development center through Sept. 30, 2022, and will initially rece...
Wen Masters, previously deputy director for research at Georgia Tech Research Institute, has been appointed as Mitre‘s vice president for cyber technologies, effective May 17. She will oversee Mitre’s cybersecurity strategy across a portfolio of programs including those that tackle national security and economics, the organization said T...
Holly Freedlander, corporate controller of Xator since September 2019, has been promoted to serve as chief financial officer at the Reston, Virginia-based security and intelligence services provider starting May 1. She will succeed the retiring Matt Galaski, who has led the company’s overall financial operations since 2014 and led the financin...
Dana “Keoki” Jackson, a more than 23-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined Mitre as senior vice president and general manager of the nonprofit corporation’s national security sector. He will be responsible for expanding and implementing national security programs that support the departments of Defense and Justice as well...
Dr. Stacey Dixon, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has received her second consecutive Wash100 Award, the highest honor that the government contracting (GovCon) sector has to offer, for her leadership and drive for innovation in GEOINT capabilities and platforms as well as digital transformation of emerging techn...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded contracts to teams led by Accenture Federal Services, BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, Kitware and Systems & Technology Research to support a research program that aims to automate search and analysis of multisource satellite imagery. A test and evaluation team for the Space-based Ma...
Accenture Federal Services and Mitre have helped the Department of Veterans Affairs update information technology systems for processing education benefits for military veterans. The Veterans Benefits Administration and its two industry partners performed software development, integration, testing, communications and training work as part of Colmery...
Mitre’s tech foundation Engenuity has launched a consortium to bring together government, industry and academic institutions to advance 5G innovation. Founding members of the Open Generation Consortium are Ericsson, Nokia, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Altiostar, FIRST iZ, HUSH Aerospace, Kittyhawk, CTIA - The Wireless Association, Northeastern Universi...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has indicated its intent to award task orders to Aerospace Corp. and Mitre for systems engineering services to support the agency’s Office of Space Commerce and Satellite and Information Acquisition Division....
