Dr. Ashton Carter Elected to MITRE Board of Trustees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

McLean, Virginia, March 24, 2006 — The MITRE Corporation is pleased to announce that Dr. Ashton B. Carter has been elected to MITRE's Board of Trustees. Dr. Carter was formerly a MITRE Trustee from 1988 to 1993.

Mr. Martin C. Faga, MITRE President and Chief Executive Officer, said "We are very pleased to have Dr. Carter join our Board again and welcome the insights and experience he brings to the role."

Dr. Carter is Co-Director (with former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry) of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Stanford University, and is the Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School, where he teaches national security policy.

In the course of his distinguished career in public service, Dr. Carter has held a number of major positions. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during President William J. Clinton's first term (1993-1997). From 1998 to 2000, he was deputy to former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry in the North Korea Policy Review and traveled with him to Pyongyang. From 2001 to 2002, he served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism and advised on the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. Carter was twice awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, as well as the Defense Intelligence Medal and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written extensively on defense and intelligence topics for a variety of publications and co-authored or edited 11 books.

In addition to his public service, Dr. Carter is a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, Chairman of the Advisory Board of MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, and a member of the Draper Laboratory Corporation.

Dr. Carter received bachelor's degrees in physics and in medieval history from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

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