Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
MITRE offered Discover Engineering Family Day visitors a chance to build their own tiny robots.Author: Russell WoolardWhat child can resist the challenge of building a tiny robot (or “bot”) using the head of a toothbrush, a button battery, and a pager motor?Judging...
Feb 6, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
Photo credit: Cameron BoozarjomehriInterviewer: Cameron BoozarjomehriProducers: Nils Granholm and Andy CleavengerWelcome to the first installment of the Knowledge-Driven Podcast. In this new series, Software Systems Engineer Cameron Boozarjomehri interviews technical...
Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Author: Michelle HerdThe MITRE Corporation, in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), released the Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook in October 2018. The playbook outlines a framework for...
Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
Photo credit: Dylan Gillis at UnsplashAuthor: Jeff BrookeMITRE loves data. MITRE practitioners are passionate about solving problems using scientific evidence, and this is just as true for social scientists at MITRE as it is for engineers. Here is how MITRE...
Mar 11, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Knowledge Advantage, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
An electronic flight bag (EFB) may typically be used to replace pilots’ paper charts, but with some new developments it could start to be more of a cognitive assistant. MITRE researchers are not only developing and licensing technology that moves the EFB concept...
Feb 14, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Even in the most high-tech domains, knowledge needs to flow across many platforms—explicitly during face-to-face discussions at conferences and in working groups, implicitly as teams perform together, and deliberately as new technology rolls out and directives roll...
Jan 31, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Air traffic managers have dozens of tools and capabilities they must monitor to keep up with what’s going on in the nation’s airspace at any given time. These tools and capabilities monitor airport and airspace demand, assess the impact of reroutes, and track emerging...
Jan 23, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Knowledge Operations
The 2017 RTCA Symposium in Crystal City, Virginia, featured MITRE staff speaking on topics ranging from commercial space operations and the future of avionics to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast. MITRE has supported the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
One practice that Natalie Angier, James Gleick, Jeanne Liedtka, Steven Pinker, and Deborah Tannen have in common is their desire to make complex subjects accessible to the general public. These writers are among a growing community of scholars committed to bridging...
Oct 13, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Knowledge Operations
Tony Colavito leads MITRE’s remote tower efforts—using real-time camera feeds to replicate or enhance the panoramic view air traffic controllers have from an airport tower. MITRE is exploring its application to a variety of airport operations in both the United States...
Sep 18, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Offering rich technical papers that resonate with international researchers and the chance to collaborate with the world’s aviation innovators, the June ATM R&D Seminar in Seattle, Washington, once again featured MITRE presenters who work on behalf of the Federal...
Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Echoing Lewis Carroll, a colleague reminded me once that words mean whatever we choose to have them mean—a practice that might work if we lived in isolation from one another and if nothing that we said or did mattered. Alas, language, like personal devices, seems to...
Aug 21, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
MITRE has supported the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mission for more than 50 years and has operated its federally funded research and development center—the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD)—since 1990. CAASD provides the FAA with...
Aug 21, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Knowledge Operations
It’s one thing to talk with your cubemate about a cool technology, another to collaborate companywide to build one. But it’s a whole different level of conversation when you try to talk to the world at large about a technical issue that affects every person on the...
Aug 12, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Elly Smith shared the MITRE perspective on time-based management in air traffic control at the 2017 ATCA Technical Symposium. Smith is the Trajectory Based Operations Portfolio Manager in MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD, our Federally...
Aug 1, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
At the 2017 Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation Conference this past spring, MITRE’s Mimi Dobbs and Juliana Goh participated in a panel discussion on the remote tower concept and its impact on air traffic management. Dobbs and Goh are staff in MITRE’s Center...
Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
As co-chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Science and Research Panel, MITRE’s Ted Lester recently presented an update on the past two years of the panel’s work, at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s (AUVSI) Xponential 2017...
Jul 20, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
MITRE works with the Federal Aviation Administration to enable the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world and to meet the evolving needs of the nation’s airspace. We have supported the FAA’s mission for more than 50 years and have operated...
Jul 17, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Advantage
As the author of this post observes, there’s an emotional component to the exchange of knowledge via games that goes beyond just having fun. Serious games may increase loyalty, engagement, and participation in tasks.—Editor Author: Michael PackPlaying games is one of...
Jun 29, 2017 | Awards, Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
With the increasing demand for a diversity of new entrant operations come a variety of economic efficiency challenges. A MITRE team collaborating with the Federal Aviation Administration and industry experts is developing technology to make it easier for FAA’s air...
