Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Advantage, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization
Federal acquisition is easy and straightforward, said no one ever. Rules, regulations, policies, procedures, definitions, requirements, contracts, forms—constantly updated …
Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
On March 12, 2018, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group announced: “We find that our latest neural machine translation system has reached a new state-of-the-art, and that the translation quality…
Apr 12, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Intellectually, rationally, we know that the people with whom we speak don’t always understand us and that ascribing fault is counterproductive…
Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
How might we redesign an organization to improve mission outcomes without assuming that reorganization is the right first choice? ….
Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
When change management professionals step in to share their knowledge of how organizations can work better, they come with stories…
Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Applications in Data Science: Anti-Fragility in Action…
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 15, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
How much fun are you going to have with Howard Gershen’s second post on counting and reasoning? Innumerable amounts. Don’t expect any new rules of thumb, but he does offer some insights where it really counts.—Editor
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 23, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
When I read Howard Gershen’s riff on counting with his fingers, what came to mind instantly was theory of mind in the way that I heard Alan Alda explain it at George Washington University as a guest speaker for the Smithsonian. We know that words and pictures work...
Oct 18, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage
Time, attention, and craft are among the most beautiful, lasting experiences one professional can share with another. The author, a student investigator at MITRE, reflects …
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...
Oct 2, 2017 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
When we interviewed Angela O’Hanlon 18 months ago, she reported that the key to the success of the ATS Lab was listening—to sponsors and industry, to staff and leadership. What did they need and want? This capability has since traveled a long way and shows no signs of...
Sep 28, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage
If staff do fabulous work, but no one can ever reference it again—well, that’s not a good outcome. MITRE always tries to bring our whole company to bear, and our products, when staff know where to find them, bear fruit over and over. MITRE Product Libraries make...
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...
Sep 6, 2017 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
Although I’m a mere mortal myself, I do admire leaders with the gift of inspiring—not ordering—others to collaborate and do meaningful work. Command and control approaches are easy to set up, but they don’t necessarily enable enduring greatness or creativity. The...
