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Ms. Diane Schulte is the vice president and deputy director of MITRE's Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM), the IRS FFRDC. She supports the CEM general manager, Mr. Mike Blom, in providing vision and strategic leadership, and has responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Center. Since joining MITRE in 1983, Ms. Schulte has supported civilian, Department of Defense, and intelligence organizations; playing significant roles in helping large-scale government programs develop acquisition strategies, implement programs, and undertake business transformation and enterprise modernization. Ms. Schulte has assumed increasing responsibility over the years, serving MITRE as a group leader, associate department head, department head, and then director.
Before the IRS selected MITRE to operate its FFRDC, Ms. Schulte had supported the agency for nearly 10 years through strategic leadership contributions and management of multidisciplinary teams for some of its most challenging and visible programs. When MITRE and Mitretek separated in 1996, she was a department head whose responsibilities included the IRS, and she moved with that work to Mitretek. Ms. Schulte returned to MITRE later that year to support the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. However, when the IRS announced the competition for its FFRDC in January 1997, she became a leading member of the MITRE pursuit team that won the competition to establish the IRS FFRDC.
From the start of the IRS FFRDC in October 1998 through April 2004, Ms. Schulte served as program director for the IRS work program, leading a team that grew to 100 professionals. She and her team built a strong, trusted partnership with the IRS and expanded the work program beyond the Business Systems Modernization program to include IRS line operating divisions, legacy IT operations, and tax administration research studies. In December 2002, the IRS awarded MITRE two five-year options to continue the work of the IRS FFRDC. The team continues to increase the value and impact of MITRE's contributions.
In April 2004, Ms. Schulte became director of practices for CEM, providing senior leadership to more than 250 technical staff. In this role, she was accountable for high-quality services to CEM's customers, which include the IRS as the FFRDC sponsor plus the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Treasury; the Bureau of the Census; and the Peace Corps. To meet the future challenges of CEM's growing and diverse programs, she expanded the focus of the practices through staff development and the advancement of Center-wide capabilities.
Ms. Schulte recently graduated from the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program, an executive education program. In 1978, she earned a master's degree in mathematical statistics from American University. Her undergraduate degree, earned in 1975, is a bachelor's in mathematics from the University of Dayton.
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