The Mitre Corporation

The Mitre Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) headquartered in McLean, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor delivering systems engineering, technical analysis, program management, and strategic advisory services across federal civilian and defense modernization initiatives, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, and national security domains. Mitre holds no small-business certifications and competes exclusively in full-and-open federal procurements, with no set-aside activity; across its recent award portfolio spanning 4,629 federal contracts, IDVs, and grants, 100 percent are prime awards issued without set-aside designation.

Mitre's customer concentration centers on three mission-critical federal agencies. The Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service leads by volume (715 awards, $22.43 billion combined potential value), followed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (211 awards, $7.53 billion), and the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (84 awards, $5.37 billion). The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (386 awards, $3.52 billion) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center (250 awards, $3.33 billion) round out the top five. Combined, these five customer organizations account for approximately 41 percent of Mitre's combined potential value across all federal awards—a concentration reflecting Mitre's dominance in large FFRDC vehicles rather than dependency on a narrow customer set.

Mitre's parent vehicle portfolio anchors its federal footprint. The Treasury FFRDC Indefinite Delivery Contract TIRNO99D00005 carries the heaviest traffic, with 1,262 task orders valued at $30.41 billion combined potential value, supporting IRS technical analysis, fraud detection, and financial systems modernization across a decade of recurring awards. The Coast Guard IDIQ 70RSAT20D00000001 funds 296 task orders worth $1.22 billion for systems engineering and mission engineering support. The CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (HEALTH) FFRDC contract 75FCMC18D0047 sustains 215 task orders valued at $1.64 billion for healthcare IT modernization, quality program support, and state Medicaid systems renewal. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI) IDIQ carries a $400 million single-award ceiling (November 2025 through November 2026) for systems engineering, data analytics, AI validation, and technological innovation assessments. The VA Technology Acquisition Center single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract, valued at $551 million (through September 2028), sustains enterprise transformation, electronic health record modernization, and veterans benefits administration operational modernization. Task-order activity under these vehicles demonstrates Mitre's sustained engagement: representative recent awards include a $38.665 million delivery order from NIST for National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence research (September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2028), a $33.651 million delivery order from VA for Veterans Benefits Administration operational modernization (August 13, 2026, through August 11, 2029), a $29.642 million delivery order from CMS for financial oversight review support (September 25, 2026, through September 24, 2029), and a $26.2 million delivery order from IRS for deanonymization analytics and AI business process optimization.

Recent contract work exemplifies Mitre's core capability mix. On healthcare modernization, Mitre delivered a $39.186 million replacement delivery order to CMS for Advancing Medicaid IT modernization and state system compliance review (June 20, 2025, through June 19, 2028), a $24.5 million order for state Medicaid and CHIP management systems compliance validation, and a $13.936 million order for organ procurement and transplantation accreditation framework development. On national security and cybersecurity, Mitre performed a $744.943 million delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for systems engineering research and development (October 1, 2025, through December 31, 2026), a $13.526 million delivery order from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for cybersecurity and infrastructure security engineering and laboratory support (September 26, 2026, through September 25, 2027), and multiple cybersecurity capacity-building orders for allied nations (Taiwan, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Southeast Asia) through Naval Information Warfare Systems Command at values ranging from $450 thousand to $1.3 million. On federal financial systems and compliance, Mitre delivered a $8.999 million order to the Treasury Office of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary and Bureau of the Fiscal Service for technical expertise and management support (April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2028). Across these engagements, Mitre operates as a captive delivery organization, self-performing approximately 99 percent of contractor labor on SCI-reportable service contracts; across prime contracts, subcontractors account for only 1 percent of total contractor hours, with 105 named subcontractors appearing across Mitre's recent prime portfolio. Named subs include women-owned small businesses (Ripple Effect Communications, Significance Inc.), veteran-owned firms (Camber Consulting), and technology-specialized vendors (Xpryme Solutions LLC on NOAA satellite projects, Kennedy & Rand Consulting on FDA Title 21 modernization, Atdepth MRV Inc. on NOAA deep-sea mining characterization, and The University of Michigan on Department of Transportation safety analysis work).

SCI-reported invoicing demonstrates substantial federal service-contract activity. In FY2025, Mitre invoiced $836.3 million in government-paid labor across 1,680 FTEs on contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold. FY2024 invoicing was $951.8 million across 2,140 FTEs; FY2023 was $914.2 million across 2,251 FTEs. On federal service contracts, government-paid hourly rates track at a median of $195.31 per hour, with 10th percentile rates at $152.79 per hour and 90th percentile rates at $274.46 per hour. FTE scale variation across fiscal years reflects award completion cycles and task-order timing rather than workforce decline; Mitre maintains consistent internal delivery capacity across its prime FFRDC relationships. Activity has remained relatively flat year over year (236 new awards in 2023, 221 in 2024, 91 in 2025, 100 in 2026), reflecting the recurrent nature of its large parent vehicles rather than organic growth in new customer relationships. Within the next twenty-four months, 163 awards with a combined potential value of $1.66 billion face ultimate completion and recompete, concentrated among IRS delivery orders and Coast Guard systems engineering work.

Mitre's federal grant footprint is narrow but strategically targeted. The National Science Foundation awarded Mitre $207 thousand on October 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project with University of California San Diego titled "Tri-Hybrid Optimization and Reconfiguration (THOR) for Extreme MIMO Systems," developing tri-hybrid antenna arrays combined with online reconfiguration algorithms for next-generation 6G wireless networks (through September 30, 2029). The Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Mitre $2.158 million on November 5, 2025, under ARPA-E Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0003387 for a competitive cooperative agreement on "All-Optical Chiplets for Energy-Efficient Artificial Intelligence," developing photonic integrated circuits to address energy demands of large-scale AI systems (through November 4, 2028). The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded Mitre $1.25 million on October 1, 2025, under CFDA 19.989 (State/African Regional Economic Support Funds) for a project in Gabon to revitalize cyber legislation, strengthen critical infrastructure protection, and establish sustainable cybersecurity practices (through September 30, 2027). Mitre serves as a sub-recipient on grants to Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, focusing on quantum systems, marine carbon dioxide removal technology integration, battery supply-chain risk assessment, and photonic integrated circuits for quantum systems.

Mitre's corporate structure reflects its role as a parent FFRDC. The source identifies three entities under the parent "The Mitre Corporation" (non-profit); two are named identically, and one operates as "The Mitre Corp"—all drawing from the same $551 million VA IDIQ, $400 million DHS HSSEDI IDIQ, and $30.41 billion Treasury FFRDC parent vehicles. This structure supports administrative separation of technical delivery lines while maintaining a unified federal contracting posture and regulatory compliance framework as a non-profit FFRDC. The organization competes without small-business designation and operates as a full-and-open contractor across all federal customer categories, with zero subcontracting as a strategic characteristic of its FFRDC model and captive delivery approach.