# Mitre Corporation American federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) that manages critical defense and intelligence infrastructure. Mitre emerged from MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, which itself had connections to the broader Cold War research ecosystem that included [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] through programs like [[wiki/SAGE|SAGE]]. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].