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2.9★- www.mitre.org
- McLean, MA
- 5001 to 10000 Employees
- 23 Locations
- Type: Nonprofit Organization
- Founded in 1958
- Revenue: $1 to $5 billion (USD)
- National Agencies
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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
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MITRE Awards & Accolades
- Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering Schools, Career Communications Group, Inc., 2022
- CIO 100 Award Winner, CIO Magazine, 2022
- America's Best-in-State Employers, Forbes, 2021
- 100 Best Places to Work in IT, Computerworld, 2021
- DEI Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion, 100% Disability Equality Index, Disability Equality Index (DEI), 2021
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