The MITRE Digest is an online magazine that showcases our latest work in aviation, defense and intelligence, enterprise modernization, and cutting-edge research. We cover timely topics that affect our sponsors and the national interest. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/ http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/ http://www.mitre.org/images/rss_mitre_digest_news.gif 158 45 The MITRE Corporation 2008 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research In helping sponsors to navigate transformational and transactional change, MITRE must frequently confront the social, organizational, political, and cultural complexities of a sponsor's business. MITRE's Social Contexts of Enterprise Systems Engineering research project is an initiative to identify the ever more sophisticated social science skills and management processes needed to confront these complexities. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/12_08/ese.html The MITRE Corporation Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence To better combat the cyber-terrorism endangering the information systems that support our nation, MITRE—through an initiative known as Mission Assurance Against Advanced Cyber Threats—is collaborating with the Department of Defense to develop a strategic approach to cyber conflict. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/11_08/cyber.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization So much of our lives can be found online these days. That's why MITRE's fast-growing privacy practice is helping the federal government keep your personal information safe. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/11_08/private.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization Consolidating five military medical training schools into one is no small task. MITRE's systems engineering expertise is helping ensure a smooth transition. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/11_08/medical.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 12 Nov 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE is using a dune buggy and a variety of sensors to collect visual clues about unpaved terrain. The data will be used to predict how unmanned ground vehicles will travel over different terrain so that the best path can be chosen for them. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/10_08/sensing.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Sometimes, the limitations of technology turn out to stem in part from the limitations of human beings. To help our customers' meet their technology needs, we use anthropological techniques to find out what's really going on when man meets machine. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/10_08/technology.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:00:00 ET Aviation While existing navigation technology has made flying under arduous circumstances possible, greater accuracy in instrument guidance would make pilots' jobs much safer. The Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) augments an aircraft's GPS readings, providing the pilot with much more precise idea of his position in relation to the terrain. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/10_08/jpals.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Knowing their precise location—and the location of fellow members—is a matter of life or death for warfighters, police officers, and firefighters. Researchers at MITRE are developing real–time situational awareness technology for military and civilian use. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/10_08/pervasive.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization Because of the growing need to expand IT functionality across organizational boundaries, sponsors and MITRE employees are learning more about employing service oriented architecture. With SOA, there's less time spent creating custom–made technology and more time building foundational systems that can be reused, upgraded, and integrated with other systems. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/09_08/external.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence Years of instability in Iraq means the country's healthcare infrastructure has suffered along with its citizens. A simple, yet innovative idea is providing a cure—linking local clinicians with medical centers around the world to help with diagnosis and treatment, using digital cameras, email, video hookups and satellite feeds. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/09_08/telemedicine.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence Recently, military and civilian leaders discussed the information sharing challenges facing joint and coalition forces worldwide. They did it at the MITRE-hosted Sixth Biennial Multinational Operations Conference—and what they said provides a close-up look at this complex problem. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/09_08/multops.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence During an intense six months in 1960, several of the leading minds in engineering and military thinking met at MITRE, eventually bringing forth the foundations of electronic command and control. Join us as we look back on that groundbreaking time. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/09_08/winterstudy.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE researchers and their partners at Penn State have started down the road to unlocking the key to mass production of carbon nanomaterials—a breakthrough recognized by a recent U.S. patent. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/08_08/patent.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence When the U.S. Air Force mandated that all of their radios must comply with a particular communications architecture, they turned to MITRE to learn how their vision would come to fruition. MITRE developed a lab to test advanced prototypes that is helping the USAF's mission become a reality. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/08_08/di_radio.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence To test how the Air Force can operate in the National Airspace System in the Next Generation Air Transportation System, the Air Force's Electronic System Center has joined its RCAT lab with Raytheon's Network Centric Operations Integration Lab. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/08_08/di_rcat.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:00:00 ET Aviation MITRE, working with a diverse team of aviation partners, helped make Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast, or ADS–B, a reality. Today ADS–B has set the stage for safer air travel than ever before. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/08_08/av_adsb.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Soon, the sight of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) overhead may become common as they take on tasks such as homeland security and border surveillance. But first, MITRE researchers must help the FAA find ways to use sensors to avoid collisions between UAS and everything else in the sky. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/07_08/a_uas.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence The third week of July marks the founding of MITRE, a not–for–profit corporation dedicated to supporting national defense. We look back at 1958 on the occasion of our 50th anniversary. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/07_08/di_arrives.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 24 July 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence Although AWACS and Joint STARS platforms have been around for decades, they continue to thrive. To make them even more useful, MITRE is central to the current initiative to bring these surveillance kingpins fully into the Internet age. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/07_08/di_mail.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 14 July 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Soldiers will someday use 3D–Simultaneous Localization and Mapping to build a 3D real–time video of an unknown environment before entering it. Used for urban situation analysis, 3D–SLAM uses video sensors on unmanned ground vehicles and hovering unmanned aerial vehicles, along with visual odometry, to improve the safety of our soldiers. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/06_08/a_situation.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 30 June 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence Over the past 50 years, MITRE has made significant contributions to command and control programs in our nation's defense. As the anniversary of our founding nears, we take a look back—and peer forward—at some of these achievements. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/06_08/di_history.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 20 June 2008 15:00:00 ET Aviation To accommodate its expanding domestic aviation market—the second-fastest growing in the world—India has enlisted MITRE to help modernize the country's aviation infrastructure. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/06_08/av_takeoff.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 12 June 2008 15:00:00 ET Aviation MITRE's UAT Beacon Radio is a revolutionary small, low–cost radio beacon under development that allows pilots to detect and avoid UAVs and other aircraft, such as sailplanes, made from composites. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/06_08/av_uat.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 06 June 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence Radio–frequency spectrum may not be at the top of everyone's list of pressing issues, but its importance cannot be underestimated. So when the World Radiocommunication Conference met last year to debate new rules governing the use of spectrum, MITRE was there. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/05_08/di_spectrum.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 30 May 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Change can be daunting for organizations as well as people. MITRE researchers are smoothing the pathways to organizational change by developing models to help government agencies, businesses, and other organizations predict how people will react to major transformations. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/05_08/a_transformations.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Technological advances that allow researchers to "see" into the brain have flooded the field of neuroscience with a bright new light of understanding. MITRE's Neurotechnology Thrust aims to focus that light on a host of sponsor problems involving intelligent information processing that have resisted solution by conventional approaches. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/05_08/a_brain.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 16 May 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization Since its founding in the aftermath of 9–11, the Transportation Security Agency has partnered with MITRE on a variety of programs. Our work with TSA on sophisticated airport screening initiatives such as Registered Traveler and Secure Flight uses advanced biometric techniques to help keep passengers moving smoothly to their gates. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/05_08/m_checkpoints.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization For more than two years, MITRE engineers have been working with the Department of Veterans Affairs and private–sector contractors to get more veterans benefits processed and paid through VETSNET. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/04_08/m_debt.html The MITRE Corporation Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence In MITRE's Nanotechnology–Biotechnology Laboratory, the scale of the subject matter may be vanishingly small, but the lab's capacity for experimentation is growing continuously. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/04_08/di_nano.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Patients' medical records contain a wealth of health–related information, but privacy concerns prevent medical researchers from mining the data. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/03_08/a_privacy.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:00:00 ET Aviation How can the nation's busiest airports prepare to serve travelers in the future? And what emerging airports might be able to take pressure off the major hubs? A MITRE team has devised a travel forecasting tool that helps aviation authorities foretell future air traffic and handle expected passenger demand. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/03_08/av_fate.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Research by MITRE's Nanosystems Group shows that the rules of classical physics also apply to the world of nanotechnology, or the science of the very small, which draws from applied physics, materials science, and mechanical and electrical engineering. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/03_08/a_nano.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence A smeared radar image is of little use to anyone, particularly when lives might be at stake. Fortunately, the Keystone algorithm, developed by MITRE engineers, can be used by a variety of advanced radar systems to provide clarity where it's most needed. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/03_08/di_keystoning.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization The development of electronic health records (EHRs) promises to transform the healthcare industry. Project Laika, a research initiative co–sponsored by MITRE, will help EHR developers create software tools that share information seamlessly across a variety of systems. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/02_08/m_electronic.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research When Princeton University was organizing its new Center for Theoretical Physics, the leaders needed complementary expertise in quantum computing—and they approached MITRE. In the bargain, MITRE's Quantum Information Science Group positioned itself to help the company and its sponsors benefit from worldwide interest in the long run–up to the quantum revolution. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/02_08/a_princeton.html The MITRE Corporation Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization Medical errors kill more Americans each year than car accidents or breast cancer, but thanks to MITRE efforts, an electronic infrastructure for the secure exchange of medical data among doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies is one step closer to reality. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/02_08/m_standards.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research "Mashups" are a new breed of Web application consisting of interactive programs that draw content from multiple data sources and allow for software applications that are often richer and more useful than the sum of their parts. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/01_08/a_web.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research With aircraft crossing the globe every minute of the day, it's not surprising that infectious disease crosses the globe with equal ease. That's why MITRE researchers are running a feasibility study on an innovative biosensor that detects infectious diseases in an aircraft while it's en route to the U.S. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/01_08/a_biosensor.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization Concerns about protecting sensitive information (and prompting from a key lawmaker) moved HUD, with MITRE's help, to beef up its information security procedures—with results that have pushed HUD's information security ratings from the bottom to the top of the class in a relatively short time. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/01_08/m_hud.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE's sponsors strive to develop systems that meet the needs of today while maintaining the adaptability to meet changing mission challenges over the course of their life cycle. But without knowing exactly what the future will bring, how can our sponsors determine which features to build into a system? http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/12_07/a_planning.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:00:00 ET Aviation When aviation authorities from around the globe need to learn the latest about air traffic management, airport safety and security, spectrum management, and a host of other aviation topics, they turn to the MITRE Aviation Institute, where hundreds of students from across the U.S. and as far away as China get instruction on improving the world's airports and airspace. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/11_07/av_institute.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE's START—which stands for Spatio–Temporal Analysis for Rapid Tasking—aims to help Air Force analysts make quick decisions about the best targets to pursue when mission needs change suddenly. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/11_07/a_uav.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research A team of MITRE researchers are devising a "playbook" for the U.S. Navy that provides techniques for limiting the potentially devastating effects of pandemic diseases amid the challenging environment of confined space. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/10_07/a_infectious.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research A pioneering MITRE technology initiative using special sensors is developing ways to detect illicit materials poised for entry into the country. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/10_07/a_sensors.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research A MITRE research team is helping to close these cultural divides by creating a standard database to share and analyze nonverbal behavior. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/09_07/a_cultural.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization From modest beginnings, MITRE's Enterprise Technology Lab (ETLab)has expanded dramatically, enabling it to play a key and growing role in advancing a wide range of work programs addressing the federal government's top priorities. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/09_07/m_lab.html The MITRE Corporation Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Researchers and technicians in MITRE's Emerging Technologies Office have opened a new front in the effort to protect civilian populations. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/08_07/a_nanoscale.html The MITRE Corporation Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Keeping a step ahead of hacker attacks is getting easier, thanks to forward–looking MITRE research into Internet security tools called "honeyclients." http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/08_07/a_honeyclient.html The MITRE Corporation Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE research into Semantic Web technologies is helping to bring "thinking machines" to the battlefield, providing warfighters with more targeted real–time data than ever before. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/06_07/a_web.html The MITRE Corporation Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:00:00 ET Defense and Intelligence The Marines have an unusual problem—sometimes their operations outrun their communications. But thanks to a MITRE–developed solution called "disruption–tolerant networking," the Marines can maintain continuous communications even under the worst of conditions. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/defense_intelligence/05_07/di_condor.html The MITRE Corporation Tue, 01 May 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE evaluated Phase I of ASSIST, which allows every soldier to become a sensor by gathering intelligence data with a helmet–mounted video camera, a still camera, and a digital pen and then use Web technology to share the data. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/04_07/a_assist.html The MITRE Corporation Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research MITRE is working with DNA microarrays to develop a rapid diagnosis system to help the military find a signature for the body's response to biological warfare agents, which in turn, will help the military determine when soldiers have been exposed to an agent and for how long. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/04_07/a_diagnosis.html The MITRE Corporation Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:00:00 ET Advanced Research Teaming up a big, fast transport robot with a small, slow, precision robot can give the military better control of bomb disposal over long distances. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/advanced_research/03_07/a_robots.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:00 ET Enterprise Modernization A team from MITRE's Center for Enterprise Modernization is looking into ways to collect realistic data gauging how public health initiatives and emerging technology might affect your pocketbook and your quality of life. http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/enterprise_modernization/02_07/m_rx.html The MITRE Corporation Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:00:00 ET