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On July 17, 1958, the new company opened.
Under the leadership of C. W. Halligan, MITRE was formed in 1958 to provide overall direction to the companies and workers involved in the US Air Force SAGE project.
In April 1959, a site was purchased in Bedford, Massachusetts, near Hanscom Air Force Base, to develop a new Mitre laboratory, which Mitre occupied in September 1959.
Also in 1962, MITRE and ESD sponsored the first congress of information system sciences ever held.
As electronic command and control systems proliferated, in 1963 the organization established a Washington-area office in addition to its Bedford, Massachusetts facility.
In 1968, researchers from several departments investigated the effectiveness of lasers under varying conditions to determine how they could complement military communications of the era.
In 1971, for example, it began developing a two-way, interactive cable-television system.
In 1974, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger expanded its use to all branches of the military to form JTIDS.
In 1977, the first operational E-3 AWACS aircraft was delivered to the Tactical Air Command with JTIDS terminals.
MITRE registered the first .org domain on July 10, 1985, which continues to be used by the company.
MITRE's revenues then rose to $463 million in 1988, when it had 5,800 employees and $62 million in a reserve fund.
The company opened a new installation at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in 1989 to support the Army’s growing volume of work in battlefield visualization.
Later, in 1989, Charles S. Zrabet&mdash′esident and chief executive officer at the time--recalled MITRE's beginnings: "They wanted a dedicated laboratory that had the multi-disciplines of radar, computers, and communications.
On October 1, 1990, the FAA selected MITRE to operate its FFRDC, the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD).
In 1991, the Air Force deployed two prototype Joint STARS aircraft for Operation Desert Storm to identify and track the movement of Iraqi ground vehicles.
In 1993 this agency awarded the organization a new three-year, $222 million contract to continue operating its Center for Advanced Aviation System Development in McLean and to provide support for further development of the National Airspace System.
As one of ten federally funded research and development centers scheduled to lose $100 million of $1.35 billion in government funds, the organization reacted by laying off 300 of its 5,500 employees in October 1994.
In 1994 MITRE and ESC personnel were engaged in laboratory simulations intended to improve the capabilities of AWACS and Joint-STARS aircraft to use both onboard and offboard sensors in providing a synthesized picture of the battlefield.
MITRE disarmed its critics in January 1996 by divesting itself of $70 million worth of federal nonmilitary contracts.
On January 29, 1996, MITRE divided into two entities: The MITRE Corporation to focus on its FFRDCs for DoD and FAA, and a new company, named Mitretek Systems (now called Noblis) to assume non-FFRDC work for other US Government agencies.
Redmond, Kent C., From Whirlwind to MITRE, 2000, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
In June 2008, MITRE was presented with the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for "significant contributions in communications, command and control decision-making, intelligence, cyberspace, and warfighter field support, as well as research and development."
In 2008, the ADS-B team won the prestigious Collier Trophy for this ground-breaking effort to improve the safety, capacity, and efficiency of the National Airspace System.
In 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs becomes a co-sponsor with the IRS of the Center for Enterprise Modernization.
Fifty Years of Service in the Public Interest (50th anniversary book), 2008
In 2009, the new Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute™ became the fourth FFRDC operated by MITRE.
On December 2, 2010, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts selected MITRE to operate the Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center (JEMC) FFRDC.
In 2010, the Federal Judiciary created the Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services selected MITRE to operate an FFRDC in October 2012.
↑ "2012 InformationWeek 500". InformationWeek. http://www.informationweek.com/1343.
In 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services created the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare.
In 2013, MITRE was named a 2013 CSO40 Award winner by the International Data Group's CSO Magazine.
In 2014, the National Cybersecurity FFRDC was created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ManTech | 1968 | $2.6B | 7,800 | 784 |
| IDA | 1956 | $160.0M | 1,480 | 27 |
| General Dynamics Mission Systems | 1999 | $2.3B | 13,000 | 436 |
| Vencore | 1972 | $300.0M | 1,319 | 566 |
| Dynetics | 1974 | $293.0M | 1,900 | 6 |
| Valador | 2001 | $5.0M | 68 | - |
| SAIC | 1969 | $7.4B | 25,500 | 1,668 |
| Medidata | 1999 | $635.7M | 2,800 | 45 |
| BAE Systems | 1999 | $11.4B | 35,000 | 3,510 |
| a.i. solutions | 1996 | $45.5M | 488 | 11 |
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