MITRE's Dr. Joseph Mitola Awarded Office of Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service

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McLean, Virginia, January 23, 2006 — Dr. Joseph Mitola III, consulting scientist for The MITRE Corporation, recently received the Medal for Exceptional Public Service from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The award was presented to Dr. Mitola for "outstanding achievement" during three years of service as Special Assistant to the Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Dr. Mitola describes his DARPA work as a blend of quantifying the real-world problems that bedevil high technology in combat environments, identifying the military relevance of new technologies, connecting the right people in NSA and DARPA, and setting up field demonstrations to show the challenges at the intersection of technology and the battlefield.

The citation credits Dr. Mitola with "saving months of effort and establishing connections with users that might never have been found. Finally, by identifying key customer needs that had not appeared in formal documentation, he assured that technical development projects remained relevant to current and future warfighter needs."

Dr. Mitola, who joined MITRE in 1993, now works at the company's Tampa, Fla., site. Before taking the DARPA assignment, he worked on the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), modeling and simulation of communications systems, and was General Systems Engineer for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO).

Dr. Mitola was the founding chair of the global Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Forum in 1996, and published the first interdisciplinary graduate textbook on SDR in 2000—Software Radio Architecture: Object Oriented Approaches to Wireless Systems Engineering. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a master's degree in engineering, and a Licentiate and Doctorate in Teleinformatics from The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. His doctoral dissertation—Cognitive Radio: An Integrated Architecture for Software Defined Radio—focuses on integrating machine learning and natural language processing into future wireless devices.

His latest book—Adaptive, Aware, and Cognitive Radio—updates the dissertation to show how semantic Web technologies, machine perception, SDR, and spectrum management have matured toward cognitive radio. Dr. Mitola is a Senior Member of the IEEE, member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AFCEA, and the AOC.

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