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Air Traffic Control the key? Only contracts Mitre did before 2000 are highlighted. NSA, according to the reference from 2013 is an Engineering Center.
Early Mitre…..Through the 1960s, Mitre developed and supported military Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) projects, including the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Mitre also worked on a number of projects with ARPA, including precursors to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). Since the 1960s, Mitre has developed or supported most DoD early warning and communications projects, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) and the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS).
In 1980, Mitre allowed Germany to hack into the DoD DoE and NASA….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitre_Corporation#cite_note-4