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MITRE announced in December 2025 that it will operate two new AI Economic Security Centers on behalf of NIST, funded by a $20 million NIST investment, focused on applying AI to U.S. manufacturing productivity and securing critical infrastructure from cyberthreats. Both centers will leverage MITRE's Federal AI Sandbox and existing tools.

Details

The AI Economic Security Center for U.S. Manufacturing Productivity focuses on strengthening U.S. manufacturing through AI-driven efficiency and quality improvements. The AI Economic Security Center to Secure U.S. Critical Infrastructure from Cyberthreats focuses on developing and adopting AI-driven tools and agents to protect critical infrastructure. Both centers will partner with NIST experts, industry, and academia, and will leverage MITRE's AI Lab, Federal AI Sandbox, and publicly available tools including ATLAS, CALDERA, and ATT&CK frameworks.

Products affected

AI Economic Security Center for U.S. Manufacturing ProductivityAI Economic Security Center to Secure U.S. Critical Infrastructure from Cyberthreats

Sources & Evidence

Company Disclosure

NIST Launches New Artificial Intelligence Centers, Expands Collaboration with MITRE

MITRE·Dec 2025

https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/nist-artificial-intelligence-centers-collaboration-mitre

Regulatory Filing

NIST Launches Centers for AI in Manufacturing and Critical Infrastructure

NIST·Dec 2025

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/12/nist-launches-centers-ai-manufacturing-and-critical-infrastructure

Other practices by MITRE

OtherMITRE deployed its AI Assurance and Discovery Lab in March 2024 at its McLean, Virginia headquarters to evaluate risks in AI-enabled systems for federal agencies and private companies. The lab uses simulated environments, AI red teaming, and large language model evaluation to identify security, bias, and performance risks before agencies adopt AI systems.Data AnalysisMITRE's Center for Threat-Informed Defense offers TRAM (Threat Report ATT&CK Mapper), an open-source tool that uses machine learning and large language models to automatically identify and classify adversary tactics and techniques in cybersecurity threat intelligence reports. The tool assists security analysts who previously had to map reports manually.OtherMITRE offers ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems), a publicly available knowledge base launched in June 2021 that catalogs the tactics and techniques adversaries use to attack AI and machine learning systems. It is freely accessible to security teams worldwide and is continuously updated.

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