ARCS Honors MITRE CEO Jason Providakes with 2023 Eagle Award
Jason Providakes, Ph.D., MITRE president and chief executive officer, has been honored with the Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Metropolitan Washington Chapter’s 2023 Eagle Award.
At the March 29 ceremony, Dana (Keoki) Jackson, Sc.D., MITRE’s senior vice president and general manager for national security, delivered remarks heralding Providakes’ leadership and promotion of scientific discovery to an assemblage that included ARCS members and donors, university partners, and current ARCS scholars.
Jackson highlighted Providakes’ commitment to supporting the growth and education of women scholars and technical leaders.
“It’s my honor to work alongside and learn from Jason Providakes,” Jackson said. “Knowing Jason as an innovator and visionary in the work we perform for our sponsors, but also as a national leader in nurturing tomorrow’s talent, it’s very fitting that he represent ARCS’s ideals as this year’s award winner.”
The Eagle Award—the chapter’s highest honor—recognizes an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in the advancement of American engineering, science, or medical research. Each honoree’s business leadership, scientific innovation, and public service has led to significant benefits for American competitiveness.
Providakes has served the public good for more than three decades at MITRE, steering discovery in artificial intelligence, aerospace, telecommunications, homeland security, cyber, transportation, defense and intelligence, health, and government innovation.
The ARCS Foundation, a national nonprofit volunteer women’s organization, promotes American competitiveness by supporting talented U.S. citizens who are completing degrees in engineering, science, and biomedical research at 54 of the nation’s leading research universities. According to ARCS, the more than $131 million raised by the ARCS Foundation since 1958 has helped upward of 11,500 students reach their academic and career goals.