Mitre Corporation
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The Mitre Corporation is an American not-for-profit organization with dual headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages federally funded research and development centers su
The MITRE Center in Bedford, Massachusetts, in 2009
MITRE offices in McLean, Virginia, in 2017; the company has had a presence in McLean since 1963.
James McCormack
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James McCormack Jr. was a United States Army officer who served in World War II, and was later the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
Mitre Corporation
…1996 this led to the civilian projects being spun off to a new company, Mitretek. Mitretek was renamed Noblis in 2007. The name MITRE was created by James McCormack Jr., one of the original board members. The name is not an acronym, although various claims that it is can be found online. Originally always seen in upper…
James McCormack (right) is congratulated by Major General Lauris Norstad after being presented with the oak leaf cluster to his Legion of Merit
McCormack at West Point in 1932
Inscription from former AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal to James McCormack from a copy of Lilienthal's 1963 book, Change, Hope and the Bomb.