Welcome to MITRE's 2008 Annual Innovation Exchange

The Innovation Exchange promotes discovery and discussion within MITRE and between MITRE and the broader community. The Innovation Exchange provides a forum for visitors and staff members to hear about the innovative work being conducted within the MITRE Innovation Program (MIP), including MITRE Sponsored Research (MSR) and Mission Oriented Investigation and Experimentation (MOIE).

The MIP seeks to address the nation's most pressing challenges through open technological innovation. The MIP complements MITRE's direct work program by striving to see these challenges in fundamentally new ways, thereby inspiring innovative-and sometimes radical-solutions. The program promotes research and development to advance and apply new and emerging technologies to our sponsors' highest priority mission problems. We want to identify areas where advanced and emerging technology can dramatically improve mission performance, or enable fundamentally new concepts of operations.

The MIP also serves as MITRE's primary mechanism for generating, gathering, and sharing relevant technical knowledge. MIP researchers develop collaborative relationships with academia, industry, and government laboratories to identify promising sources of technology. By combining the best of external and internal ideas, we try to find the most promising solutions to our sponsors' problems. The knowledge we gain and share yields direct benefits to MITRE, our sponsors, our staff, and to industry.

I hope that you will find the Innovation Exchange both informative and enjoyable, and encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to meet the leaders of MIP projects and discuss how their work might apply to your own activities.

Stephen D. Huffman, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer