Martin Faga is president, chief executive officer, and a member of the MITRE Board of Trustees. He directs the company's activities, primarily the operation of three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). The Department of Defense (DOD) FFRDC focuses on Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I); the Federal Aviation Administration FFRDC on air traffic management; and the Internal Revenue Service FFRDC on enterprise modernization.

Prior to his promotion to president and chief executive officer, Mr. Faga served as executive vice president. Earlier, he was senior vice president and general manager of MITRE's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems, one of the three units operating under the DOD FFRDC. This center serves the DOD and intelligence community sponsors in the integration of intelligence systems, from sensor technology through presentation to the ultimate user.
Before joining MITRE, Mr. Faga served from 1989 until 1993 as assistant secretary of the Air Force for space, where he was responsible for overall supervision of Air Force space matters with primary emphasis on policy, strategy, and planning. At the same time, he served as director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), responsible to the secretary of defense and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the development, acquisition, and operation of all U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs.

Other facets of Mr. Faga's career include service as a staff member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, where he headed the program and budget staff. He served as an engineer at the CIA for several years and a research and development officer in the Air Force.

Mr. Faga has been awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the DOD Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal. He served on the board of directors of the Security Affairs Support Association and the Open Geographic Information Systems Consortium. He has also served on the Commission for the Protection and Reduction of Government Secrecy, the Jeremiah Panel to review the mission and organization of the NRO, the NRO Panel on Satellite Lifetimes, and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Satellite Reconnaissance. He is currently serving on the National Commission for the Review of the NRO.

He received master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1964 and 1963, respectively.