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Technology has the potential to enhance our travel experiences throughout the surface transportation ecosystem, as well as improve safety, reliability, and equity. However, user attitudes – from reticence toward AI to the importance of sustainability – underscore the need for planning. A new MITRE-Harris Poll on transportation found that U.S. residents believe their transportation experience will improve in the next 10 years, with 40% saying it will get better, compared to just 23% who believe it will get worse. “America’s transportation future is at an inflection point,” said Kerry Buckley, vice president, MITRE, Center for Integrated Transportation. “The decisions we make in the coming years set the course for decades to come. Though users are optimistic, that also means high expectations. We need integrated planning across federal, state, and local governments; industry; academia; and trade groups to achieve these ambitious goals.”
As the Intelligence Community (IC) calls for more diversity of thought to address an increasingly complex, diverse, and dynamic threat landscape, the cognitive differences observed in neurodistinct groups such as those with autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia can be advantageous for intelligence work. Individuals with these neurodistinct conditions bring exceptional strengths in areas such as visual processing and cognitive originality, comprise a considerable and growing portion of the general population, and remain underemployed compared to their neurotypical counterparts. In other words, the neurodiverse community represents a potentially valuable and largely underappreciated source of new talent for the IC. We recommend the IC pursue an intentional and purposeful neurodiverse talent program to support the intelligence mission. This includes better understanding the composition and needs of the IC’s existing neurodistinct workforce; increasing awareness and acceptance of neurodiversity within IC organizations; and increasing recruiting, hiring, and retention of neurodistinct talent. Read more research and analysis for the Intelligence Community in our Intelligence After Next paper series.
To further support access to global health services, the Swinfen Charitable Trust, UVA Health, Telemedicine AI, and MITRE announced a new collaboration to enable medical cyber infrastructure protection assessments and testing for Swinfen’s next-generation telemedicine platform, OpenTelemed. This collaboration also will incorporate educational resources and cyber technology training for the Trust’s extensive network of health professionals across 427 hospitals and clinics in 96 countries. “Easy and secure access to medical care is essential, and with this collaboration, we are enabling more doctors to connect with each other across the globe so they can safely bring their patients the best medical care wherever they are,” said Charles Clancy, senior vice president, MITRE Labs, and chief technology officer, MITRE. “Swinfen has spent decades building a trusted network for doctors, especially in remote and rural areas, and we’re honored to be a part of the solution to keep that network secure.”
The summer’s smoke from Canada blotted out the sun over New York City—drifting as far south as Florida. The haze was a startling reminder of the increasing dangers of uncontrolled wildfires and their climate impact, as the world’s forests grow hotter, become drier, and burn faster. As these infernos spread closer to population centers in places like Colorado and California, they bring often devastating results to lives and property. Firefighters use an array of human-managed and automated measures to combat the blazes, from controlled burns and fireline barriers, to satellite imagery and drone reconnaissance. MITRE researchers have added two potential capabilities to the arsenal. Developed under our independent R&D program, these systems use AI, data analytics and modeling, and remote sensing to help mitigate the effects of wildfires—and stop the burn. FiReLine (the “RL” stands for reinforcement learning) blends projection modeling and machine learning to provide a scalable, open-source decision-support tool. It includes the unique feature of integrating historical data on human mitigations implemented during real-world fires, stored in a data set called BurnMD. Our complementary tool, ART3MIS (Augmented Real-Time 3D Mapping with Intelligent Sensing AI), integrates deep-learning algorithms with remote-sensing data, such as from satellites and drones. This fusion offers a quick, tailored forestry mapping solution. It can also serve as a state-of-the-art data source.
Seventeen percent of our staff self-identify as military veterans. It has always been our organization’s commitment to create an environment where we honor their service while recognizing the incredible wealth of unique experiences, backgrounds, and ideas they deliver.
Can video games protect troops overseas? The new e-sports concept GameX combines experimental rigor with first-person combat games to help the U.S. Air Force protect assets and project power around the world. MITRE is entering the wide world of e-sports with the new digital combat game “Drone Guardians.” But this game will do more than determine champions, it may help determine how we defend our servicemembers deployed abroad. Eight teams gathered at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and MITRE headquarters in McLean, Virginia, to participate in the first tournaments of a MITRE-designed, interactive, e-sports experiment platform known as GameX. The winners walked away with cash prizes, and MITRE with terabytes of new data. It’s part of a series of tournaments to be held at MITRE locations across the country. The core concept: to answer questions of national importance through crowd-sourced experimentation and then develop novel ideas on adapting to pressing threats through public participation. Which means these digital victories could help shape the strategies and tactics of the U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (IMSC). Small drones can pose a major threat to Air Force operations, both through electronic surveillance and kinetic attacks. “GameX could help address ground threats and elicit what level of protection we need on the ground,” says IMSC Deputy Branch Chief John Enyeart. “This needs to drive the operational test and evaluation work we’re
When Jessica Dooley’s son fell ill on her first day at MITRE, it was a wake-up call many parents experience: She needed a more reliable childcare arrangement. MITRE made it possible for Dooley to complete her onboarding from home. And our Bright Horizons Family Solutions tuition discount benefit made childcare more affordable. Bright Horizons, founded in 1986, identified reliable childcare as a challenge for working parents, and opened on-site daycare centers. Today, Bright Horizons offers childcare, elder care, and help for education and careers to more than 1,000 employers like MITRE around the world. For Dooley, an executive administrative assistant in the Engineering and Prototyping Subsector, the simple enrollment and the center’s proximity to MITRE have been game-changing. “I truly don’t know how I did it before,” she says. “As soon as I enrolled my son, there was a noticeable shift for me. The ease of knowing he’s well taken care of and happy each day has made a world of difference for me personally and professionally.” “For our working parents, balancing priorities at work and home can be challenging and Bright Horizons can help navigate this challenge,” says Katie Borgasano, MITRE’s benefits and well-being manager. “Providing quality, thoughtful resources to help our employees manage their priorities is central to our holistic approach to employee well-being and engagement,” she notes.
MITRE’s Charles Clancy, Ph.D., was named chief technology officer, in addition to his role as senior vice president and general manager of MITRE Labs. He assumes management of the MITRE independent research and development (IR&D) program. Across these integrated responsibilities, Clancy leads MITRE's science, technology, and engineering workforce, IR&D program, and extramural research activities. Dr. Jay Schnitzer, MITRE senior vice president and chief medical officer, was named corporate chief engineer. He will help assure company-wide technical quality and mission impact, support technical staff development, and continue as chief medical officer. “Science and technology are critical to our nation’s future, in an era of global strategic competition,” said Jason Providakes, Ph.D., MITRE president and CEO. “Charles will leverage MITRE’s research activities to drive whole-of-nation impacts across our work with sponsors and partners in industry, academia, and other non-profit organizations. Jay will ensure our work meets the high bar of technical excellence needed to help our federal sponsors succeed in their missions and will continue to advance our cancer and quantum computing R&D programs.”
MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations (Evals), a program of MITRE Engenuity™, MITRE’s tech foundation for public good, released its latest round of independent ATT&CK Evaluations for 30 enterprise cybersecurity solutions. Through the lens of the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base, this round focused on adversary behavior informed by Turla (G0010), a known Russia-based threat group. The ATT&CK Evals team chose Turla based on its innovative stealth, the relevancy of its activity to various sectors, and the breadth of open-source reporting on its tradecraft. The emulation represents how Turla achieves post-exploitation persistence with a minimal footprint through in-memory or kernel implants, evades detection by defensive tools, and exfiltrates sensitive information from Linux and Windows infrastructure. These open and fair evaluations, which were paid for by the vendors, include solutions from AhnLab, Bitdefender, BlackBerry, Broadcom, Check Point, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Cynet Systems, Deep Instinct, Elastic, ESET, Fortinet, HarfangLab, IBM Security, Malwarebytes, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, Rapid7, Secureworks, SentinelOne, SOMMA, Sophos, TEHTRIS, Trellix, Trend Micro, Uptycs, VMware, WatchGuard, and WithSecure.
MITRE’s new Driver Research for Intelligent Vehicles and Environments (DRIVE) Lab has parking for one—yet offers the potential of safer transportation for millions. At first glance, the nimble looking, matte black car parked in front of a huge, wrap-around screen may look like a video game. But the lab’s intent is deadly serious: to facilitate research at the complex intersection of people, how they move around, and increasingly intelligent vehicles. The lab’s overall focus will be to create a safer surface transportation environment. “This is part of MITRE’s effort to take the impactful work we’ve done to modernize and improve the safety of the aviation system over the years and begin to apply that success to other forms of transportation,” says Beth Meinert, senior vice president and general manager, MITRE Public Sector.