Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Strategy
MITRE is, and always has been, a learning company. It’s a point of pride among staff to be immersed in training, a new degree, a new book, a new talk. The key to making it all stick, however, is intent and practice. Whether you agree with the 10,000 hours concept or...
May 31, 2017 | Blog, Cognitive Assistance, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The 42 staffers and interns who participated in MITRE’s 2017 Hackathon aimed to connect around problems not projects. and connect they did, using Discuss@MITRE, Github, Hackathon.io, Slack, our internal wiki (MITREpedia)–and these are just the tools. The...
May 31, 2017 | Blog, Cognitive Assistance, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
(L-R) Michael Lull, Kevin Long, Grant Pan, Joey Menzenski, and Jared Ondricek show off their award after a 24-hour marathon of hacking (team member not pictured: Jeff Stein). On February 24, 2017, MITRE sponsored an internal hackathon at its McLean, Virginia campus...
Apr 28, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The MITRE Job Shadowing Program allowed Software Systems Engineer Dan Mauer to shadow Chief Engineer Richard Games to better understand how the MITRE Innovation Program addresses the needs of our sponsors. (Photo by Michael Baker)There are many ways to network and...
Mar 23, 2017 | Analytic Tools, Blog
In Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert observed that “Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.” Referring to the painful misconceptions that arise when we use...
Mar 1, 2017 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
MITRE staff are lifelong learners—it’s not hard to engage us in conversation online or in person or both at the same time. Somewhere in the swirl of activity, however, someone needs to capture the connections and outcomes, of course. For MITRE’s Center for Advanced...
Nov 14, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog
At his MITRE Innovation Speaker Series talk this past May, Ben Shneiderman talked about his newest book, The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, a guide for junior researchers and a manifesto for senior researchers, academic administrators,...
Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The old computing was just about what computers could do; the new computing is also about what users and organizations can do. Successful technologies are those that are close to being in harmony with the needs of users and organizations. These technologies must...
Oct 31, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Linda Fischetti, John Shottes, Lisa Tutterow, Cynthia Taylor Small, Steve Scott, Marianne Smith, Phil Trudeau, Lara Van Nostrand, and Stacey Zlotnick—who together bring expertise in learning, technology, and healthcare to the endeavor—created an interactive learning...
Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
If you’ve ever remodeled your kitchen, you know (perhaps to your horror) the potential difference between an estimate and the final bill. It’s why experienced homeowners often warn, “Take that estimate and double it!” Fortunately for taxpayers, there are a number of...
Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
To ensure that our soldiers are well prepared to operate in a complex and dangerous security environment, MITRE is working with the U.S. Army to develop the most advanced training environment in the world. MITRE’s Bruce Gorski and Brian Parrish created a...
Aug 15, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
If you’ve ever experienced weather-related turbulence while traveling on a plane, you know it can be a frightening experience. Understanding how weather events impact air operations can help pilots avoid potentially dangerous situations. The MITRE Corporation’s Center...
Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception: A Framework for Supporting Active Cyber Defense, by Kristin Heckman, Frank Stech, Roshan Thomas, Ben Schmoker and Alexander Tsow, examines how using denial and deception (D&D) techniques can prevent cyber attackers...
Jul 28, 2016 | Assessment & Recognition, Blog
MITRE award winner Dr. Alex Tsow discusses a first-of-its-kind framework for active cyber defense at MITRE’s Knowledge Advantage Event May 19. (Photo by Jae Robinson)Authors: Donna Cuomo and Jean ColbertSince 2001, MITRE has run an internal, formal Knowledge...
Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
MITRE’s intranet team stays on top of trends like responsive design. They also keep us responsive to one another so that we can engage in the reachback that helps us answer our customers’ questions. In this post, the authors describe how MITRE’s Organization Pages...
Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
This second post on the challenges of retaining corporate know-how in the face of changing work-force demographics reviews an extended conversation among interested MITRE staff. Because it’s always easier to come up with ideas than to implement them, this group...
Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
This first of two posts covers some of the challenges of retaining the know-how of experienced staff in the face of changing work-force demographics. The authors compare tacit and explicit knowledge, and consider how companies might capture and retain this rich...
Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
When you hear the word documentation, if the first image that pops into your head is the crummy user guide you just threw away, you are in for a surprise. In the hands of Alex Lyte, John Griffith, Tod Levitt, and Leo Obrst, documentation is an indispensable business...
Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
MITRE’s Patient Toolkit mobile app enables chronically ill patients to better manage knowledge about their conditions, track their symptoms and medications, and communicate what they know to their healthcare providers. MITRE has a simple process to enable...
Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
Cognitive assistance isn’t mainstream yet, but decision support tools that enable decision-makers to understand tradeoffs in multiple dimensions are available. Shawn Chin and Rick Haberlin, who built one such tool, make the case that “engagement requires visualization...
