The Mitre Corporation

The Mitre Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center headquartered in McLean, Virginia, delivers systems engineering, technical analysis, program management, and strategic advisory services to civilian and defense federal agencies across the full spectrum of federal modernization, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, and national security initiatives as a prime contractor on delivery orders, indefinite delivery contracts, and grants with no set-aside designation. Mitre operates as a tax-exempt non-profit FFRDC with subsidiaries operating under the "Mitre Corp" designation; the organization is structured as a parent entity and does not carry small-business certifications.

Mitre's customer concentration reflects deep entrenchment across civilian IT modernization and healthcare modernization. The top five funding agencies account for 40% of recent awards by count, anchored by the Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service (711 awards, $22.42 billion combined potential value), the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (206 awards, $7.47 billion), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (71 awards, $5.29 billion). By dollar value, the same five agencies control 40% of potential value: Treasury IRS ($22.42 billion), CMS ($7.47 billion), NIST ($5.29 billion), DHS Science and Technology Directorate ($3.49 billion), and VA Technology Acquisition Center ($3.25 billion). The divergence between volume and dollars signals that Treasury IRS work is high-dollar per order, while DHS S&T places numerous smaller technical assessments and cybersecurity capacity-building orders. Mitre has worked with 232 distinct federal agencies, spanning IRS, VA, CMS, DHS, DoD, Commerce, State, Labor, Interior, Transportation, and dozens of smaller agencies across the federal enterprise.

Capability portfolio centers on federally funded research and development services spanning systems engineering and integration, IT modernization and cloud migration, healthcare IT and data analytics, cybersecurity research and critical infrastructure protection, strategic advisory and program management, and enterprise transformation. Recent work includes a $699.9 million cost-no-fee delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for systems engineering research and development across multiple DOD mission areas; a $33.3 million NIST NCCOE cybersecurity research and engineering delivery order; a $21.8 million CMS Quality Payment Program delivery order; and a $19.2 million CMS strategic support delivery order for Medicaid and CHIP services. Healthcare-focused work includes a $24.5 million state Medicaid and CHIP systems compliance review, a $15.7 million technology agile enterprise market monitoring initiative for CMS, and multiple VA contracts for health record modernization and veteran care planning. IRS work spans fraud detection (OMNI narrative investigator model development), tax gap estimation methodology, deanonymization analytics, filing season readiness, and RAAS (Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics) services. NIST engagement includes AI economic security center cybersecurity support, operational technology security framework R&D, and manufacturing supply chain traceability using blockchain. Transportation work addresses positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure resilience and complementary GNSS antenna hardening.

Vehicle position reflects Mitre's status as an FFRDC with multiple large indefinite delivery contracts anchoring federal agency relationships. The TIRNO99D00005 Treasury FFRDC contract (parent vehicle) carries 1,255 task orders with $30.4 billion combined potential value and generates the majority of IRS delivery orders. The HSHQDC14D00006 DHS contract carries 309 task orders ($643.9 million potential value). The 70RSAT20D00000001 Coast Guard vehicle supports 296 task orders ($1.22 billion potential value). The 75FCMC18D0047 CMS HEALTH FFRDC contract (the "$2 billion single-award indefinite delivery vehicle" referenced throughout the award descriptions) carries 215 task orders ($1.64 billion potential value) and is Mitre's primary healthcare modernization vehicle. The HSHQDC09D00001 DHS contract carries 256 task orders ($465.1 million potential value). Additionally, Mitre holds a single-award $551 million VA Technology Acquisition Center contract (awarded June 6, 2025, through September 30, 2028) for systems engineering and integration support services, and a $400 million DHS Science and Technology Directorate HSSEDI IDIQ Renewal (awarded November 17, 2025, through November 16, 2026) for systems engineering, data analytics, AI validation, and technological innovation assessments.

Activity trajectory shows sustained volume with recent consolidation. Awards per year: 2022 (220), 2023 (236), 2024 (221), 2025 (91, partial-year), 2026 (27, partial-year). Mitre's total federal award footprint spans 4,555 awards (4,537 prime, 18 sub) with $103.68 billion combined potential value and $25.62 billion obligated dollars (25% of potential value). Within the next twenty-four months, 130 awards with combined potential value $1.42 billion face ultimate completion, representing significant recompete exposure concentrated in the IRS, VA, CMS, and DHS vehicles.

Service Contract Inventory data reveals federal service-contract activity (above $150K threshold) of $2.62 billion across SCI-reportable FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $752.6 million, FY2023: $914.2 million, FY2024: $951.8 million). FTE trajectory shows FY2022 at 8,671 FTEs, declining to 2,251 FTEs in FY2023 and 2,140 FTEs in FY2024, indicating either classification changes in how Mitre reports labor or a consolidation in SCI-tracked programs. Government-paid median hourly rate across SCI contracts is $195.22/hr, with 10th-percentile labor at $153/hr and 90th-percentile senior labor reaching $274.32/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for approximately 1% of total contractor hours, indicating Mitre predominantly builds its own delivery teams internally rather than subcontracting. Mitre names 97 subcontractors across the SCI dataset, including specialized firms in cybersecurity (Scarfone Cybersecurity, women-owned), IT infrastructure (ITC Federal), identity and security consulting (Spherical Cow Consulting, women-owned), communications (Ripple Effect Communications, woman-owned), and analytics (Carahsoft, Nexight Group, Applied Integrated Technologies).

Teaming pattern reflects Mitre's prime-dominant posture: 100% of recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs, with minimal sub-award exposure (18 sub-awards out of 4,555 total, or 0.4%). Across SCI-reportable work, subcontractors comprise only 1% of hours, confirming Mitre operates primarily as a captive delivery organization rather than a feeder sub to larger primes. Where Mitre does subcontract, partners include established specialists like The Rand Corporation (healthcare policy and survey research on the $15.7 million TAEMIM CMS order), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (marine science modeling on NOAA deep-sea mining work), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (quantum photonics research), Carnegie-Mellon University (AI/federal strategy articulation), ICF Incorporated (transportation digital infrastructure), and smaller women-owned and veteran-owned firms providing communications, cybersecurity analysis, and technical consulting support.

Subcontract footprint beyond SCI shows Mitre as a prime contractor engaging specialized subs on particular capability gaps: Dell Federal Systems L.P. provides IT infrastructure and server hardware on DHS cyber crimes and Secret Service orders; Atdepth MRV Inc. supplies marine carbon dioxide removal modeling on NOAA critical minerals work; Invaryant Inc. coordinates FDA REMS integration standards testing on CMS work; The ACI Group, Inc. delivers healthcare policy and quality reporting on CMS Clinicians on Call engagement; and Audient Group LLC provides fraud analysis on Social Security Administration work. These arrangements are selective rather than structural, indicating Mitre pursues specialized subs to augment internal capability on particular scopes rather than relying on a vendor ecosystem to scale delivery.

Federal grant footprint includes cooperative agreements and project grants. Mitre received a $1.77 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded November 5, 2025, for all-optical chiplets for energy-efficient artificial intelligence (photonic integrated circuit development for AI systems). A $1.25 million Project Grant from the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs (CFDA 19.989) awarded October 1, 2025, funds cybersecurity legislation and critical infrastructure protection capacity-building in Gabon through September 30, 2027. A Cooperative Agreement with the International Security and Nonproliferation directorate extended through April 30, 2026, provides access to Mitre's Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial Intelligence Systems (ATLAS) program to international AI developers. Mitre acts as prime recipient on these awards; sub-grant work includes cost-sharing partnerships with academic institutions (Carnegie-Mellon, MIT) on quantum and photonic research components. These grants represent a smaller footprint relative to Mitre's contract dominance and focus on emerging technology domains (optical AI, cybersecurity governance, quantum systems) where Mitre positions itself as technical leader rather than commodity provider.

Corporate structure: The Mitre Corporation operates as a parent non-profit FFRDC with subsidiary entities also designated as "The Mitre Corporation" and "The Mitre Corp." (DBA). No material subsidiary with distinct capability framing is exposed in the award data; the subsidiaries appear to be administrative entities under the parent holding structure.

Mitre's positioning as a large non-profit FFRDC without small-business designation, combined with its $103.68 billion award portfolio, 232-agency customer base, and captive delivery model, establishes it as a prime federal systems engineering and modernization provider competing predominantly full-and-open (no set-asides) across civilian IT, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, and defense technical domains. Competitive differentiation rests on FFRDC status (enabling objective technical analysis and privileged government access), established vehicle relationships (especially Treasury FFRDC, CMS HEALTH FFRDC, VA contract), and deep bench in federal modernization languages (cloud, data, AI, healthcare interoperability) rather than agility or cost leadership. The organization's recompete cliff ($1.42 billion over twenty-four months) is concentrated in core vehicles—Treasury IRS, CMS healthcare, VA systems engineering—where Mitre's incumbency and FFRDC designation provide structural competitive advantage.