斜线的partnerships with industry bring the best capabilities, tools, and insights to help solve the toughest national and global problems—and enable us to contribute to a robust technology market.
MITRE Partnerships with the Private Sector Deliver Public Benefit
“Industry partnershipsare particularly critical to what we do,” says Barry Costa, MITRE director of partnerships, licensing, andintellectual property.
That might sound surprising, considering MITRE’s longstanding role as a not-for-profit company without commercial interests. But there’s more to the story.
Today’s national challenges are multi-faceted and complex, evolving practically by the minute. Ensuring election integrity. Addressing vaccine hesitancy. Advancing cyber resiliency. No single government agency, company, or university can do it alone. Problems this big require a collaborative, holistic approach.
Miter是一个公正和值得信赖的合作伙伴，将公共和私营部门桥接在一起，以解决此类挑战。
“We want to bring the best that private industry can offer to support our government sponsors and contribute to our mission of solving problems for a safer world,” Costa explains.
As a national resource for U.S. security, prosperity, and resilience, we’ve long collaborated with industry on various innovations. But this concerted focus on industry partnerships really took shape over the last two years.
Working throughMITRE-operated federal R&D centers, our labs and platforms, and our tech foundationMITRE Engenuity, the strategic partnerships team actively fosters opportunities to engage with the private sector. The team also ensures such engagements don’t create unintended commercial conflicts of interest.
We’re at an inflection point—no one organization or sector can succeed alone. We have to get it right, and that will only happen working together.
这是一条双向街道。行业合作伙伴为我们如何应对国家的最大挑战做出了贡献。我们提供系统思考，对政府获取格局的理解以及前瞻性的知识产权，以帮助推进私营部门的创新。这一切都是为了公共利益。
For example, when COVID-19 hit, industry leaders asked us to help convene key stakeholders to maximize the success of our healthcare system against the pandemic. TheCOVID-19 Healthcare Coalition was born, co-chaired withour partner, Mayo Clinic.
This public-private sector collaboration brings together 1,000+ companies in a non-competitive way to work together toward common goals. Under other circumstances, many of the coalition members would compete. But to join the coalition, we made sure members cooperated and shared openly—and exclusively for the country’s benefit.
The Power of Networking
Networks of strategic partnerships not only help us address global challenges like pandemics and stabilizing world financial markets, but they also contribute to a flourishing marketplace for technology-based solutions.
其中包括人工智能中的能力，这是我们未来经济的主要驱动力。斜线的Generation AI Nexusconnects interdisciplinary teams across industry, academia, and government to make the U.S. more competitive in this area.
Additionally, while partnerships withindustry leaders like Microsoft and IBMbring transformative impact, some highly promising innovations emerge from newly established companies.
斜线的Bridging Innovationworks with organizations likeMassChallenge, an international startup accelerator, to engage innovators of all sizes around the world. We’re helping startups in Boston, Texas, and Rhode Island to connect with potential government customers and navigate the federal contracting landscape. That gives a much-needed lift to small companies, so they can contribute to solving big problems.
Successes from MassChallenge inform several of our other innovation initiatives. For example, our partnerships withStartUP FIUandCapital Factory努力使企业家在迈阿密和德克萨斯州取得成功。
Whether partnering with small businesses, large corporations, orother not-for-profits, collaboration is key.
“当今对美国竞争力的挑战的范围，经济增长的公平机会以及解决国家安全和保障中关键问题的需求需要新的合作伙伴关系。”Jim Cook, MITRE vice president for strategic engagement and partnerships.
“We’re at an inflection point—no one organization or sector can succeed alone. We have to get it right, and that will only happen working together. There’s a wealth of opportunity to engage across government, academia, and industry and find new ways to help solve these major challenges.”
To learn more, contact: partnerships@mitre.org.