Oct 18, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Sponsors turn to us for our expertise and expect us to have the answers and to make recommendations. This role of guide can be liberating. As guides, we no longer need to have all the answers. Instead we ask provocative questions to our sponsors to elicit their own answers. (Feel free to start playing the song “Let it go” in your head.) This change in role may push both us and our sponsors out of our proverbial comfort zones. Let me tell you how this has worked in real life.
Sep 23, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
How do we balance the desire of organizations to harness big data’s power with the need to prevent potential harm to individuals or populations? For health care, MITRE developed a framework to promote the ethical use of consumer-generated lifestyle data.
Sep 12, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Today’s environment is one of constant change and disruption. Government organizations are greatly impacted by new technologies, new laws and policies, administration changes, and customer expectations for increased services. To carry out their missions and serve customers in this type of environment, government organizations must operate in a more agile manner and better manage constraints and demands.
Aug 30, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Jackie Morin is a Senior Software Engineer whose journey at MITRE started when she was a high school intern. Now she guides new interns as they journey from academia to industry! Enjoy a discussion on what it takes to be an intern (and employee) here at MITRE, as well as the steps MITRE is taking to pave the way for future employees. It’s an exploration of excellence at all levels.
Jun 3, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization, Uncategorized
This article identifies veterans navigating the process of transitioning to civilian employment in an attempt to highlight the struggles and benefits of being a veteran in the civilian workforce.
Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
What 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?
Feb 6, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
Welcome to the first installment of the Knowledge-Driven Podcast. In this new series, Software Systems Engineer Cameron Boozarjomehri interviews technical leaders at MITRE who have made knowledge sharing and collaboration an integral part of their practice.
Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Guidance developed with FDA outlines preparedness and response recommendations for healthcare delivery organizations and others.
Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
MITRE 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 practitioners use data to ensure that our recommendations on strategic communication have the greatest possible impact.
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….
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 with them. MITRE serves as an interface for all types of ongoing collaboration.—Editor
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 weather patterns…
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…
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…
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...
