MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) supports the FAA, an agency within the Department of Transportation. The National Security Engineering Center, previously known as the C3I Federally Funded Research and Development Center until 2011, addresses national security issues for the Department of Defense. Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) In March 2021, Engenuity created the MITRE ATT&CK Defender training program to educate and certify cybersecurity professionals. MITRE had previously released emulation plans for the Chinese and Russian hacker groups APT3 and APT29 in 20, respectively.
The library's first plan was focused on the prominent cybercrime group FIN6.
In September 2020, Engenuity's Center for Threat-Informed Defense and partners launched the Adversary Emulation Library, a GitHub-hosted project providing downloadable emulation plans to network security groups at no cost. The foundation created the Center for Threat-Informed Defense that has 23 member organizations with cybersecurity teams, as of 2020, including Fujitsu and Microsoft. The nonprofit foundation MITRE Engenuity (or simply Engenuity) was launched in 2019 "to collaborate with the private sector on solving industrywide problems with cyber defense" in collaboration with corporate partners. Approximately half of MITRE's employees work under the unit, which seeks to "further extend the parent organization's impact across federally-funded research-and-development centers and with partners in academia and industry". MITRE restructured research and development operations in mid 2020, forming MITRE Labs. 3.3 Cybersecurity and election integrity.3.2 Airspace, Global Positioning System (GPS), and aerospace.1.1 Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs).