“MITRE is launching this Strengthening Eligibility Verification Challenge on August 6 to engage creative inventors to find ground breaking approaches to solving the problem of improper enrollment in federal benefit programs.” “MITRE is offering innovators the chance to solve a national problem, safeguard billions of tax-payer dollars, make government connections, and win up to $50,000. The MITRE Challenge is an 8-week-long competition that is open to individual entrepreneurs, college teams, state and local government representatives (if their organizations support their participation), and large and small for-profit and not-for-profit entities.” Read the full press release here. Source: MITRE Launches Challenge to Solve Government's Improper Payment Problem – August 6, 2018. MITRE.