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Millimeter-scale Robots: Small in Stature, Big in Capability

February 2010

With the success of unmanned aviation systems generating demand for battlefield robots of every size and shape, MITRE researcher Mark Taczak offers an overview of the next stage in autonomous robotic platforms: millirobots the size of large insects.

MITRE's Collaborative Experimentation Environment: Putting Cooperation to the Test

January 2010

MITRE's Collaborative Experimentation Environment helps government agencies test their collaboration policies by staging experiments based on realistic operational data, staffed with experienced personnel, and equipped with authentic tools and equipment.

MITRE Helps Illuminate the Rising Area of Metamaterials

December 2009

Metamaterials form a new class of ordered composites that exhibit unusual properties like negative refraction. MITRE's Steven Best is authoring a paper for an IEEE magazine about how metamaterials can help advance antenna design techniques and improve warfighting.

Green Air Space Design: Reducing Fuel Burn

October 2009

Can re-designing airspace save fuel for airlines? MITRE is looking at the benefits of reducing level-offs in terminal airspace, which could have the additional environmental benefit of reduced carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur oxides.

A Successful Landing: Modeling Chicago's Airspace in Real Time

August 2009

A MITRE team worked with the Chicago Terminal Radar Approach Control and Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center to run human-in-the-loop scenarios to find solutions for easing congestion at O'Hare International Airport—one of the world's busiest.

TCAS: A Second Set of Eyes for Pilots

June 2009

TCAS, the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, has helped keep commercial and military aviation safe since 1990. Today MITRE is working to help TCAS evolve as the new airborne surveillance procedures and applications required by NextGen become operational.

Finding the Way: Taking Web Infrastructure to the Network's Edge

January 2010

When the DoD needed to evolve the net-centric capabilities of the Global Information Grid to the farthest reaches of the globe, MITRE engineers Steve Farish and Stan Ames found a solution in a commercial company's innovative approach to Web infrastructure.

Innovative Collaborative Community Helps Warfighters Connect the Dots

January 2010

Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) systems, which use Doppler radar and sensors for tracking ground-based targets, are in widespread use in active combat theaters. Now, with MITRE's help, a group of GMTI stakeholders is collaborating to help make GMTI data even more useful to military intelligence analysts.

Predictive Heads-Up Display Compensates for Feedback Lag for Predators and Reapers

December 2009

Using a computer gaming engine, MITRE created a heads-up display that predicts a Predator's near-real time position over Afghanistan despite a two-second satellite round trip delay from the operator in Nevada to the aircraft and back.

Smooth Moves: Helping Military Families Transition to New Homes

September 2009

Moving military families from one location to the next is a daily—but complex—occurrence and virtually no two moves are alike. A team from MITRE helped the U.S. Transportation Command streamline the process, which ultimately ensures easier moves for service personnel and their families.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Take Health IT Lead

August 2009

One of the key drivers in the move toward national healthcare reform is the growing need for standardized electronic health records. One of the key players is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is working with MITRE to transform its IT systems in advance of the coming wave of change.

Many Happy Returns: Gaining Converts to e-File

March 2009

Congress wants at least 80 percent of all taxpayers to file their taxes over the Internet—a process known as e-filing. Convincing the skeptical taxpayer to file electronically involves much more than technology, but MITRE and its IRS partners are on track to do just that.

MITRE's Cyber Security Operations Center Helps Sponsors Keep Networks Secure

January 2010

To counter advanced cyber threats from malicious code, viruses, and hackers, MITRE created a Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC). Our sponsors, who have larger networks, can use the CSOC to extrapolate best practices for their own network environments.

Technology Collaboration Improves Security for Boston's July 4th Celebration

October 2009

During Boston's Fourth of July celebration, crowd safety is monitored by the Unified Command Center (UCC) under the control of the Massachusetts State Police. To improve access control security to the UCC, advanced technology was developed by a team that included MITRE, the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center, Middlesex Community College, VideoIQ, Fenwick Technologies, and RFID Global Technologies.

Insider Threats: Countering Cyber Crime from Within

October 2009

A MITRE cybersecurity team, supported by I3P at Dartmouth College, uses double-blind experiments to research the social and behavioral aspects of malicious insiders who use their computer access to create data breaches and steal intellectual property.

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