Company

The MITRE Corporation

MITRE is a not-for-profit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers supporting U.S. government agencies in aviation, defense, healthcare, homeland security and cybersecurity. ↗

Headquarters	Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia ↗
Founded	1958 ↗
Leadership	Mark Peters, president and CEO ↗
Department of War obligations	$5.9 billion in prime contracts since fiscal 2022 ↗
Ownership	Nonprofit ↗

Products

MITRE ATT&CK, launched in 2015, is a free knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques used by organizations for cybersecurity, including CISA and the FBI. ↗
MITRE operates the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program for CISA. ↗

Customers

The Department of War and the U.S. Air Force sponsor MITRE's National Security Engineering Center, an FFRDC; the Air Force awarded a $463 million contract to continue the work in September 2020. ↗
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sponsors MITRE's Health FFRDC, and awarded MITRE a new five-year contract to operate it in 2023. ↗
CISA awarded MITRE approximately $11.8 million in August 2026 for further work on the CVE and CWE programs. ↗
MITRE's Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute does work for the Department of Homeland Security. ↗