Marin Halper

Marin Halper is the vice president of the DoD and Services Center, supporting the National Security Engineering Center within MITRE's National Security Sector. In this role, he collaborates with the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and DoD agencies. Halper leads nearly 1,000 staff in tackling significant challenges, aligning teams and programs, and delivering mission-critical capabilities, from operational prototypes to modern systems engineering for agile acquisition. He also oversees a joint organization focused on accelerating strategic non-kinetic effects delivery across the DoD operational life cycle, including support to U.S. Cyber Command.

Halper previously served as vice president for Cross-Cutting Priorities, where he led efforts to identify and deliver solutions to complex national security challenges requiring integration across organizations and technologies. He oversaw MITRE’s initiatives in joint all-domain command and control; counter-C5ISRT, integrated deterrence; contested logistics; nontraditional data; space warfighting; and electromagnetic spectrum operations, while also enhancing U.S.-Australia national security ties.

With more than two decades of experience as an innovator and systems thinker, Halper was the founding director of MITRE’s Cross-Cutting Urgent Innovation Cell, which accelerated innovative solutions for urgent national security needs through analysis, prototyping, and experimentation. He played a key role in developing interrelated whole-of-government programs and partnerships in command and control, nontraditional data, and artificial intelligence. A technical leader in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, Halper also led MITRE’s Integrated Sensing, Processing, and Exploitation R&D portfolio. He invented the PRISM algorithm, now a community standard across the DoD, Intelligence Community, and industry, for accurately and automatically locating target materials in hyperspectral imagery.

Halper joined MITRE as a nanosystems research intern while completing a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics at Yale University. He holds a master’s degree in applied and computational mathematics from Johns Hopkins University and is a Stanford Executive Program alumnus. Halper holds awards of merit from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Director of National Intelligence, and the International Security Assistance Force.