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Knowledge Partners (KP) is a MITRE initiative to enable rapid discovery, creation, and use of global experts and knowledge to solve problems of national concern. MITRE is frequently challenged by sponsors with interdisciplinary and/or inter-organizational problems. Also, we are often called on to organize and participate in blue ribbon panels and advisory boards (e.g., Defense Science Board, Science Advisory Boards). According to MITRE President and CEO Vic DeMarines, "Knowledge Partners is being established to complement classic MITRE roles in order to more effectively address short- and long-term sponsor tasks, including studies and analyses, design of enterprise architectures,and strategic planning and decision support." MITRE is currently formulating a range of Web-based services for KP participants. These will include specification and refinement of a customer requirement/information need, discovery of experts and/or preexisting knowledge (i.e., because the answer may already exist); and formation and support of teams (i.e., if the knowledge doesn't exist and if the expert doesn't exist, then learning must occur). KP will provide services for negotiation of terms with an expert and/or team, support for team collaboration and execution, and capture, delivery, and evaluation of knowledge and results. KP will leverage existing MITRE/government efforts such as environmental studies, studies in national security, and technical analyses. KP will be facilitated by MITRE's knowledge of and collaborations with leading information technology enterprises, and supported by our award winning intranet (the MITRE Information Infrastructure or MII), worldwide video teleconferencing, our Collaborative Virtual Workspace tool, and Risk Assessment and Management Program. KP will help MITRE tap the vast reservoir of knowledge embodied in its retirees through Reserves at the Ready, a pilot project designed to offer highly qualified, MITRE retirees opportunities to support short-term work program requirements. When becoming a member of the reserves, MITRE retirees become Part Time on Call employees with their resumes available via the MII. Project leaders can call upon them to perform project work that draws upon their typically extensive experience base or to mentor new or recently promoted staff. Upon completion of assignments, reserves will update their online resume to include current experience. MITRE is initially piloting this program at our Bedford Air Force Center and Washington Center for Command, Control and Communications operating centers. "MITRE retirees offer a unique source of world-class expertise," says Executive Director of the Air Force Resource Center Rich Byrne. "All of them have demonstrated a commitment to serving the nation. Leveraging this resource to help mentor our next generation leaders is an exciting and powerful opportunity." KP will enhance MITRE's existing infrastructure by establishing an e-commerce environment to facilitate interactions. While the initial focus will be on internal partnerships, KP will provide an opportunity to explore new organizational models that enable efficient teaming of leading talent across Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, national laboratories, academia, and industry. Accordingly, KP will provide an opportunity to explore new organizational models that enable efficient teaming of leading talent. KP aims to establish MITRE as a leader in applied knowledge management by drawing from and refining MITRE core competencies and Web-based services in expert finding, capture and reuse of knowledge and lessons learned, and project and partnership creation (leader identification, team formulation, collaboration). In summary, KP promises to bring interdisciplinary expertise to bear on demanding multidisciplinary challenges of national concern. Please contact us to learn how your organization could participate in or benefit from KP. For more information, please contact Mark Maybury using the employee directory. |
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