Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: MARK PETERS

On Sept. 3, Peters will succeed Jason Providakes as president and CEO of Mitre, a not-for-profit research and development corporation that manages federally funded R&D centers. Mitre has more than 60 sites worldwide, employing 10,000 workers. The corporation’s 200-plus labs develop innovations in applied science and technologies in sectors ranging from artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum computing to maritime and aviation safety.

An expert in nuclear fuel cycle technologies, nuclear waste management and national security, Peters previously served as
executive vice president of laboratory management and operations at Charlottesville’s Battelle Memorial Institute. He also was director of Idaho National Laboratory and president of Battelle Energy Alliance. Earlier in his career, Peters worked at Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory and served two terms as chair of the National Laboratory Directors’ Council.

He was a 2015 Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a 2021 inductee into the National Academy of Engineering, and received the 2023 Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award, which recognizes individual service in developing and guiding the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Peters holds a doctorate in geophysical science from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in geology from Auburn University.