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MITRE Research Program
For MITRE, serving the public interest means looking to the future while solving existing problems. The MITRE Innovation Program (MIP), formerly known as the MITRE Technology Program, seeks to address the nation's most pressing challenges through open technological and scientific innovation. The MIP complements MITRE's direct work program by striving to see these challenges in fundamentally new ways thereby inspiring innovative—and sometimes radical—solutions. The program promotes research and development to advance and apply emerging technologies to meet sponsor needs. Our efforts affect Americans' lives in many ways. "The MITRE Innovation Program connects new and emerging technologies to our sponsors' highest priority mission problems," says Stephen D. Huffman, MITRE's Chief Technology Officer. "We want to identify areas where advanced and emerging technology can dramatically improve mission performance, or enable fundamentally new concepts of operations." MIP researchers develop collaborative relationships with academia, industry, and government laboratories to identify promising sources of science and technology and connect them to our sponsors' problems. Because our research is not tied to the bottom line, we are free to recommend the best solutions to our sponsors, whatever the source. In addition, we can take more risks in our internal research than for-profit companies can, exploring radically-different approaches that have a high payoff but also a high risk of failure. By combining the best of external and internal ideas, we try to find the most promising solutions to our sponsors' problems. To ensure that knowledge gained through the program becomes widely available, MIP researchers publicize their findings through conference presentations, journal papers, consortia and standards bodies, along with events such as our annual Innovation Exchange (formerly the Technology Symposium). In the course of seeking and applying this knowledge, we often create intellectual property that is useful to our government sponsors and to the public. View MITRE's technical papers for more information. Related Information
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