John P. Stenbit Elected to MITRE Board of Trustees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

McLean, Virginia, May 10, 2005 — MITRE Chairman of the Board James R. Schlesinger and President and Chief Executive Officer Martin C. Faga are pleased to announce the recent election of Mr. John P. Stenbit to MITRE's Board of Trustees.

Mr. Stenbit is the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) and its successor organization, Networks and Information Integration, and the former Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. His career spans over 30 years of public and private sector service in the telecommunications and the command and control fields, including several years at the Department of Defense, a distinguished career at TRW, and an early position with Aerospace Corporation, during which time he was both a Fulbright Fellow and an Aerospace Corporation Fellow at the Technische Hogeschool, Einhoven, Netherlands.

Mr. Stenbit has chaired the Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, and served as member of the Science Advisory Group to the directors of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Communications Agency. He also chaired the Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee for the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and served on the Defense Science Advisory Board, the Navy Studies Board, and the National Research Council Manufacturing Board.

In 1999, Mr. Stenbit was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

"We are pleased to have Mr. Stenbit join our Board and welcome the insights and experience that he brings to the job," said Faga.

Mr. Stenbit holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, and has received the Secretary of Defense Medal for both Outstanding and Exceptional Public Service.

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