2018 AFCEA TechNet Asia-Pacific Conference & Expo

Frank T. Quick
Director, Defense Security Cooperation Initiatives
MITRE National Security Sector


Mr. Quick is the director of defense security cooperation initiatives spanning defense and intelligence matters within The MITRE Corporation’s MITRE National Security (MNS) sector. MNS operates two of MITRE’s seven federally-funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) for the U.S. government: the National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) and the National Cybersecurity FFRDC. The sector is MITRE’s largest and employs more than 4,400 experts that provide independent and objective S&T/Systems Engineering expertise to the U.S. government and for U.S. allies in a variety of government/national security mission areas. Mr. Quick has been at MITRE for more than 25 years including the period after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks when he was mobilized by the U.S. Navy to lead the Anti-Terrorism Alert Center Operations Officer. Mr. Quick is a trained intelligence officer and a computer science engineer. He recently left the leadership of MITRE's Global Ops and Intel division to work defense security cooperation initiatives which are a focus of Secretary James Mattis. In his previous assignment, he was responsible for the direction of MITRE research, development, system engineering and acquisition support of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the work at each of the 9 Combatant Commands, Service Intelligence and the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. Mr. Quick led the MITRE work programs at DIA and at the sites of the combatant commands and primary components, such as USPACOM, USEUCOM, USAFRICOM, USSOCOM, USSOUTHCOM and USSTRATCOM. Mr. Quick first joined MITRE in 1993 in the Underwater Acoustics area.

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