
Thanks to a Christian podcast called The Confessionals I recently became aware of Project Meridian and a “non-profit” called the Mitre Corporation that Forbes suggested could be the most important organization you’ve never heard of.
Before we get to the Mitre Corporation, though, let’s get a basic breakdown of Project Meridian:
The Pentagon’s newly announced Future of Warfare initiative will aim to fundamentally transform U.S. military doctrine and deliver a blueprint for how American forces can succeed in a world of rapidly evolving technology and artificial intelligence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.
Mr. Gingrich, tapped by the Trump administration to co-lead the effort alongside SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey, co-founder of the defense technology firm Anduril, said the group will deliver a study by the end of January that aims to gain bipartisan support for “huge structural reforms that we need in our national security system.”
Ok, with the main players tapped by the Trump administration for Project Meridian established, here’s what Forbes had to say about Mitre six years ago as Covid-19 gave this government R&D arm a privileged position at Uncle Sam’s feeding trough:


Whether it’s an invisible Aston Martin or an exploding pen, whenever James Bond needs a high-tech edge, he heads right for Q and his secretive MI6 lab. In the real world, American agents often rely on a less clandestine, but far better-funded group. Armed with 8,000 employees and an annual budget of between $1 billion and $2 billion of taxpayers’ money, Mitre Corp., a government-linked Skunk Works, has been making bleeding-edge breakthroughs for U.S. agencies for more than six decades. With its HQ housed in four towers atop a hill in McLean, Virginia, Mitre’s research centers employ some of the nation’s leading computer scientists and engineers to build digital tools for America’s top military, security and intelligence organizations.
Among the government’s wilder Mitre orders: a prototype tool that can hack into smartwatches, fitness trackers and home thermometers for the purposes of homeland security; software to collect human fingerprints from social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the FBI; support in building what the FBI calls the biggest database of human anatomy and criminal history in the world; and a study to determine whether someone’s body odor can show they’re lying.
These varied, multimillion-dollar projects, revealed in hundreds of pages of contract details obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, as well as interviews with former Mitre executives and government officials, provide just a glimpse into this sprawling contractor’s secretive world. Mitre’s influence goes far beyond its vast tech development; it’s also a major consultant for myriad government agencies on how best to deploy tech and policy strategies. Its latest gig: helping the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) and Homeland Security’s ominously named Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office craft sweeping plans for curtailing the Covid-19 pandemic.
After doing a smash-up job helping America “curtail” the Covid-19 pandemic, Mitre announced its role in Project Meridian earlier this month at its website:
The Department of War has commissioned MITRE to lead Project Meridian, an independent initiative on the future of warfare. The effort examines the technologies and operational concepts required to sustain U.S. military advantage across the full spectrum of future warfighting domains.
MITRE brings decades of experience working at the intersection of national security, technology, and the public interest. Its mission-immersed technical experts will apply deep understanding of warfighter needs, systems-level perspective, and rigorous, objective analysis to assess emerging technologies and their implications for future military operations.
And here’s the announcement (PDF) from our War Department:


Three days after Trump made this announcement about Montana’s selection for Project Meridian (which made Tim Sheehy and Steve Daines very happy), the Montana Free Press highlighted what’s already been reported about Montana’s “public/private” collaborations with innovation across the state:
“The U.S. faces a clear choice: adapt and expand our development infrastructure to the realities of modern warfare, or risk falling behind adversaries who iterate faster,” Sheehy’s statement said in part. “Montana is uniquely positioned to spearhead the development of the next generation of instruments for the warfighter.”
In his speech Wednesday, Trump said that Sheehy and fellow U.S. Senator Steve Daines had repeatedly lobbied for the testing range in Montana.
The news agency Reuters pointed out that the state is already home to the Montana Spaceport and Test Range and the Montana Innovation Campus, which are public-private aerospace projects with sites near Helena, Billings and Townsend. It’s not known if the forthcoming super range will involve these facilities.
While future details of the Montana Super Range are unknown, the history of the Mitre Corporation is less murky. Here’s a bit of Mitre’s origin story from its Wikipedia page:
MITRE formed in 1958 as a military think tank, spun out from the radar and computer research at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Over the years, MITRE’s field of study has greatly diversified. In the 1990s, with the winding down of the Cold War, private companies complained that MITRE had an unfair advantage competing for civilian contracts; in 1996 this led to the civilian projects being spun off to a new company, Mitretek. Mitretek was renamed Noblis in 2007.
And here’s another notable project the Mitre Corporation had a role in via its history with the U.S. Air Force:
U.S. military forces, especially the Air Force, were primary initial sponsors; according to Air Force Magazine, MITRE was created “as a special-purpose technical not-for-profit firm to perform the SAGE systems-engineering job”. The aerial warfare service branch had struggled to identify a for-profit corporation to develop the defense system, so MITRE was hired to serve as the system engineer. MITRE subsequently designed air defense systems for the U.S. and allies, improving aircraft and missile tracking as well as communication interception abilities. The company also helped design the Cheyenne Mountain Complex facility in Colorado operating the North American Air Defense system.
With successes like curtailing Covid-19 and helping America’s stellar air-defense, which only had that one whoopsie on 9/11, maybe it would be helpful to see what kind of money floats around a “non-profit” like the Mitre Corporation:


Wow, those are some BIG numbers, but I guess that’s what it takes to keep up with China.
Moving on to Epstein, Mitre popped up in connection to Noam Chomsky and MIT in this article discussing that awkward Epstein connection.
Interesting.
Linguists at an MIT-offshoot called the MITRE Corporation were particularly interested in Chomsky’s ideas. As their lead researcher, Donald Walker, wrote, ‘Our linguistic inspiration was (and still is) Chomsky’s transformational approach.’ As many as ten of Chomsky’s linguistics students conducted research at MITRE – work that was always intended to support the ‘development of US Air Force-supplied command and control systems’.
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In the light of this, and especially considering MITRE’s involvement in the Vietnam War, the one institution we might have expected the anti-militarist Chomsky to avoid would have been the MITRE Corporation. It appears, however, that Chomsky worked as a ‘consultant’ both for MITRE and for the SDC, another corporation involved in nuclear weapons command and control.
With this connection to Chomsky (and through Chomsky, Epstein) I wondered what the Epstein Files might have on Mitre so I put the word in the search bar and found this:

What else might I find in the Epstein Files related to this project? Since Newt Gingrich is being named as one of the three main players in Project Meridian (along with Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey), I decided to plug Newt’s name into the Epstein search bar to see what I could find and what I found is Newt’s desire to establish a moon colony.
Hmmm.

While men get plenty of credit for being warmongers, the future of war also has some impressive women helping develop the future of killing and controlling enemies for Uncle Sam, so let’s end today’s post with one of those warmongering ladies involved with the Mitre Corporation:

Ravich began her government career working for Vice President Dick Cheney, rising to become his principal deputy national security advisor. From 2011 to 2013, she co-chaired the bipartisan National Commission for the Review of R&D Programs for the U.S. Intelligence Community.
She was appointed vice chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, an independent element within the Executive Office of the President in 2018 and served as co-chair of the Department of Energy Artificial Intelligence Working Group from 2019 to 2021. Ravich also held a seat on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, established in 2019 to develop a national strategy to defend against cyberattacks.
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Ravich holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, Calif. In her off hours, she is a mediocre golfer and a beginner HAM radio operator.
For more context on Montana, space tech, and the future of America’s war machine, here is a post I wrote earlier this year worth reading:
“On Making The Space Great Again…For The Epstein Class!“
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