!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] (stylized as [MITRE]) is an American [not-for-profit organization|not-for-profit Entity] based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. 


[{$pagename}] manages Federally [Federally Funded Research and Development Centers] ([FFRDC]s) supporting the [United States Department of Defense] (DOD), the [Federal Aviation Administration] ([FAA]), the [Internal Revenue Service] ([IRS]), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the [United States Department of Homeland Security] ([DHS]), the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the [National Institute of Standards and Technology] ([NIST]).

[{$pagename}] maintains the [Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures] ([CVE]) system and the [Common Weakness Enumeration] ([CWE]) project. 

!! History
[{$pagename}] was itself spun off from the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] ([MIT]) MIT Lincoln Laboratory which began in the [1950s] as the Lincoln Project at [MIT]. The Lincoln Laboratory was created to develop ground radar air defense systems for the United States. The [{$pagename}] was established as the "system engineer and overseer for the development of this highly complex system."

!! [MITREid Connect]
[Open Source] reference [implementation] of [OpenID Connect] and [OAuth 2.0] from the [{$pagename}] and  [MIT Internet Trust Consortium|MIT TRUST DATA CONSORTIUM] ([ITC]).

!! More Information
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* [#1] - [Mitre_Corporation|Wikipedia:Mitre_Corporation|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2015-11-28