Saturday, September 1, 2007

Work History Part 3: MITRE Corporation

Location: Bedford, MA
Position: Network Software Engineer
Period: June 2007 – August 2007

MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). I worked for the Command and Control Center (C2C) as part of the Tactical Edge Solutions group.

I worked on the MIDS LVT 1 MultifunctionaI Information Distribution System (MIDS) Low Volume Terminal (LVT) radio developing an interface that would allow messages to be passed between the radio network and an application running on a host machine. One application was a situational awareness visualization.

Responsibilities and accomplishments:
  • Implemented a gateway between military radio networks and the Global Information Grid using an enterprise service bus.
  • Programmed a Java controller to exercise the MIDS Low Volume Terminal Platform D Ethernet interface.
  • Configured terminals using time division multiple access communication method.