Mr. Grasso is the past President and Chief Executive Officer of the MITRE Corporation, which manages federally funded research and development centers, a position he held from 2006 to 2017. Since 2019, Mr. Grasso has served on the Board of Trustees of Riverside Research, where he serves as Chair of the Special Program Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee. He is a member of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine Board of Directors.
Mr. Grasso is a Permanent Director and Executive Committee member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International’s Board of Directors and served as Chairman from 2012 to 2014 and Vice Chairman from 2010 to 2012. Mr. Grasso is the former President of the Board of the National GEM Consortium, a non-profit organization that promotes the participation of under-represented groups in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, and a former member of the Defense Science Board and the Army Science Board. He has served as a Trustee of the George Mason University Foundation, a member of the Stevens Institute Systems Engineering Research Center Advisory Board, the University of Virginia’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering Advisory Board, Howard University’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences Board of Visitors, and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.