I have a hard time understanding what MITRE is or does from their website. Wikipedia helped:
>The Mitre Corporation is an American not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) supporting several U.S. government agencies.
They do non partisan research for the government. They are meant to give them the info to make decisions. They're business is primarily run on govt dollars