MITRE Australia
Accelerating whole-of-nation solutions for sovereign and global security impact
Being Bold to Outpace Strategic Challenges
MITRE Australia is a not-for-profit that works in the public interest to address the most complex national security challenges in today’s hyper-competitive strategic environment.
In recent years, MITRE Australia has signed partnership agreements with federal and state governments focused on the development of whole-of-nation solutions that strengthen the defence of Australia. These partnerships with governments are supported by active research collaborations with Australian universities focused on enhancing joint advanced capabilities across AUKUS and Australian critical infrastructure. MITRE Australia’s Canberra headquarters, based at Brindabella Business Park, was launched by Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist in 2022 and is home to our advanced system engineering centre.
MITRE has proudly operated U.S. government federally funded research and development centres (FFRDCs) for close to 65 years.
MITRE Australia is designated as a Registered Charity under Australian law, pursuant to the Charities Act 2013, as a not-for-profit. MITRE has offered independent expertise and objectivity concerning matters of strategic national importance to Australians for more than a decade.
MITRE Australia embodies this role of a trusted, unbiased, objective partner with the cognisance and sponsorship of the U.S. government. We are honoured to be a part of the pioneering future of the Australia-U.S. partnership, applying our cross-domain technical knowledge and expertise and our proven data-driven, system-of-systems engineering approach to the challenges in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
We are mission first, people always.
Solutions & Services
We apply systems thinking and an interdisciplinary perspective to current and emerging problems in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, defense, transportation, health, and more. All without commercial conflicts of interest.
Partnerships
At MITRE Australia we work with our expanding network of partners—government, industry, academia, and other not-for-profits — to solve critical problems spanning sectors, technologies, and nations.
News and Insights
MITRE Names Dean Commons Managing Director of MITRE Australia
MITRE has named Dean Commons managing director of MITRE Australia. Following a three-decade-long career in the Australian Army and Navy, he will bring his extensive national security expertise to lead a hybrid Australia-U.S. team.
Accelerating AUKUS Innovation Efforts: Lessons Learned from NATO Collaborative Strategies
In June 2024, experts across government, industry, and academia gathered at the University of Oxford to consider paths to advance AUKUS, the Australia, United Kingdom, and United States trilateral partnership.
Australia’s Space Epoch: Leveraging Geolocational and Technological Advantages to Forge a Commercial Space Frontier
This white paper delineates Australia’s strategic shift from a primarily defense-focused space policy to fostering a dynamic commercial space economy, aligning with the global pivot toward space exploration and commercialization.
