Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM)

Internal Revenue Service/Department of Veterans Affairs FFRDC

As an honest broker bridging government, research, and industry communities, CEM brings a commitment to the mission of transforming how its customers do business.

Overview

Since our founding, MITRE has been integral to the evolution of large, technologically complex government programs—from the development of the SAGE command and control system to the modernization of air traffic control. The work we do for our federal sector modernization customers entails similar levels of complexity. In the case of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for instance, improving the business systems and practices of an organization that processes millions of returns and collects trillions of dollars in revenue yearly requires a fundamental understanding of both technology and organizational dynamics. When the IRS chose MITRE to manage its federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in 1998, the choice reflected the agency's commitment to modernize America's tax administration systems and its confidence in our ability to meet that challenge.

Today, that FFRDC, known as the Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) and, since early 2008, co-sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, performs work for civilian agencies across the federal government. We offer a strategic systems perspective for the most prominent challenges facing our nation. As an honest broker bridging government, research, and industry communities, CEM brings a commitment to the mission of transforming how its customers do business.

CEM combines systems engineering, enterprise-level integration, and change management competencies with expertise in financial management, financial intelligence, tax administration, healthcare, economic analysis, acquisition management, government infrastructure, and homeland security. This blend of technical competence with subject-matter knowledge enables us to improve our customers’ mission performance by modernizing government enterprises. We work to enhance an organization's capability to acquire, integrate, institutionalize, and manage business and information technology solutions. In turn, we are able to leverage what we learn about systems and strategies across government.

Going Where Our Customers Need Us

CEM is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with staff working in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and at other locations around the world in close proximity to our customers.

CEM takes advantage of MITRE's depth of technical and organizational knowledge. We draw expertise from the MITRE-wide research and development program and from various Centers of Technical Excellence throughout the company. In addition, CEM maintains a multi-platform, classified/unclassified Enterprise Technology Lab for evaluating software tools and accommodating the testbed and prototyping needs of our customers.

Competencies

CEM's core competencies reflect the broad range of expertise and experience of our staff. Coupled with our ability to reach back to the whole of MITRE, we have the capacity to handle our customers' most challenging problems:

• Enterprise Strategy and Transformation
• Business Strategy
• Applied Enterprise Architecture
• Organizational Strategy and Change
• Investment Planning and Acquisition Strategy
• Program Management and Systems Engineering
• Systems Engineering, Design, and Development
• Information Assurance
• Data Management
• Program Management
• Technologies, Infrastructure, and Operations
• Systems Engineering and Execution
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Information Technology Operations
• Project Management Tools and Techniques
• Project Execution

Customers

• Public Revenue and Finance
• Internal Revenue Service
• Department of the Treasury (including Office of Financial Assets Control, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)
• Healthcare
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Department of Health and Human Services (including Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, National Institutes of Health)
• Civilian Agencies
• Census Bureau
• United States Courts

Related Information

Articles and News

• Many Happy Returns: Gaining Converts to e-File
• Private Eyes: Keeping Personal Information Safe
• Building Collective Strength: Transforming Military Medical Education and Training
• Building a Solid IT Foundation with Service-Oriented Architecture
• The Art of Enterprise Systems Engineering
• Social Contexts of Enterprise Systems Engineering
• Clearing Checkpoints in Transportation Security
• VETSNET: Repaying a Special Debt
• MITRE Transforms Electronic Health Records
• Healthcare IT Standards to Bring Order to Medical Records
• Helping HUD Give Your Information a Safe Home

Technical Papers and Presentations

• Secure Citizen Interaction Framework
• Findings of Case Studies in Enterprise Systems Engineering
• Engineering a Complex Information Enterprise: A Case Study Architecting the Department of Defense Hourglass
• Engineering the Enterprise
• Enterprise Systems Engineering Theory and Practice, Volume 9: Enterprise Research and Development (Agile Functionality for Decision Superiority)
• A Framework for Enterprise Systems Engineering Processes
• On the Pursuit of Enterprise Systems Engineering Ideas

Websites

• Our Work: Large-Scale Enterprise Transformation
• Our Work: Healthcare Transformation
• Research Areas: Enterprise and Systems Architecture and Engineering

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