MITRE names new chief executive

The Mitre Corp. said today its board has named Jason Providakes president and chief executive, effective March 6.

Providakes, who previously served as senior vice president and general manager of MITRE's Center for Connected Government, will succeed Alfred Grasso. Grasso, who announced late last year he would step down, will continue to be a member of the not-for-profit organization's board of trustees.

Providakes joined MITRE in 1991 and has previously served as director of its Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute and of the joint and defense-wide systems division within its National Security Engineering Center.