The U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) awarded MITRE the 2024 Jack Donnelly Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence. The award is given to cleared companies that excel in protecting sensitive or classified U.S. information and technologies. Named after a former DCSA director known for his leadership in counterintelligence, the award recognizes organizations’ efforts to deter, detect, and disrupt foreign attempts to steal classified information, ensuring secure delivery of such technologies to the Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies.
This award recognizes MITRE’s robust counterintelligence program and its commitment to safeguarding U.S. defense and national security technologies. The selection process is highly competitive, as only four out of 12,500 cleared defense organizations are honored each year.
MITRE earned a DCSA Excellence in Counterintelligence award as well in 2022. The award highlights MITRE’s role in protecting critical U.S. technologies from foreign threats and ensuring that sensitive information remains secure, supporting the nation’s defense capabilities and technological edge.