Rogers Earned $420,000 From MITRE During Pentagon Project Overlap

Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers received more than $420,000 for serving on the MITRE Corporation’s board from 2017 to 2023, including a period as chair, according to tax filings reported by Drop Site News. MITRE is now coordinating Project Meridian, a Pentagon effort announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to study future warfare and identify military capabilities; the initiative also involves prominent figures including Elon Musk. The overlap has prompted questions about possible conflicts of interest, while Rogers’s support for the Iran war has become an issue in his race against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. Rogers has called for the war to end based on conditions rather than a fixed date, though he has more recently said it should begin winding down.