MITRE Announces Appointment of Alfred Grasso to Senior Vice President and Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

McLean, Va., July 6, 2004 — The MITRE Corporation's President and Chief Executive Officer Martin Faga is pleased to announce the appointment of Alfred Grasso to senior vice president and director of the Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by MITRE for the Department of Defense (DoD).

In his new role, Grasso will be responsible for managing all of MITRE's C3I work, and ensuring integration across its various programs to achieve national security objectives. He will focus on assimilation across service and agency systems and programs, to achieve transformational goals in areas like network-centric operations.

The appointment was approved at a June meeting of MITRE's Board of Trustees. Grasso takes over the position from John Quilty, who recently retired from the Corporation.

Faga commented, "Al has built a distinguished career at MITRE with his remarkable ability to make strategic use of information technology. He is well equipped to lead the DoD FFRDC to the next level of service to the Department."

Mr. Grasso joined MITRE in 1986, and has worked in the corporation's Center for Air Force C2 systems, as technical director of the Battlefield Systems Division, and as MITRE's vice president and chief information officer from 1999-2001. Most recently, he was senior vice president and general manager of the Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center (W3) in MITRE's DoD C3I FFRDC, responsible for the management and direction of work conducted for the Army, Navy, Defense Information Systems Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other members of the national security committee.

He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1980, and his master's degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1993. He is a graduate of the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School, and he is a member of the Army Science Board.

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