Deanna West is the Department Head for Information Services at the MITRE Corporation. Information Services is comprised of three teams of information professionals who perform research services and provide a robust library of digital resources to the organization in the support of MITRE's work program. She and her department are focused on providing situational awareness to the company, investigating just-in-time delivery methods and discovering new approaches to communication their Services value.  The MITRE Corporation is a private, not-for-profit corporation that operates Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC).  FFRDCs serve as long-term strategic partners to the United States government, providing objective guidance in an environment free of conflicts of interest. MITRE works in the fields of aerospace, defense, health and human services, federal agency modernization, homeland security, cybersecurity and more.