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New Employees

December 2012 New Employees   

Welcome Kim, Ron, and Chris! Read more about our new staff members on page 3.

Honors & Awards

December Promotions   

Several Expanded Recognition awards were presented to staff members and Dr. Jeffrey Pursel and Ms. Jan Long were promoted to Director status. Congratulations on a job well done! Read more on page 3.

Group News 

 Battery Park   

Hurrican Sandy hit with a vengeance! Click here for more photos. Read all of the Group News stories on page 6.

  Family News   

Haish, Justin
Corporal Justin Haish (right) receives the Purple Heart! Read more on page 12.

Corporate News  

Beltway Bits 
  

Beltway Bits is back! Jim Bower provided another great read from the National Capitol Region. See page 13 to read more about Better Buying Power 2.0.

Celebrations   

NYO Holiday Party 
The New York Research Office hosted their Holiday Party! See more photos of the spectacular night on page 14.

HR Reminders

See page 15 for updated information on the Electronic Travel Voucher system.
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Ask Richard  

Company President Richard Annas answers your questions and discusses hot topics in the video messages below.  
  
Posted: June 2012
Topics: Rebranding, Growth, and Culture
  
Posted: September 2012
Topics: FY12 Review, FY13 Outlook, Lab Structure Aligned under R&E Group, and Talent Management

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VOLUME 25 | DECEMBER 2012

Riverside Research News

A Video Message from Company President Richard Annas

Ask Richard Vol 22        

Company President Richard Annas addresses four topics in this installment of Ask Richard: (1) collaborative opportunities between our directorates and labs; (2) business strategies to address the coming economic changes; (3) the legal relationship between Riverside Research and our small business subsidiary, ARS, and associated profit distribution; and (4) performance-based bonus determination. Click here to watch the video from the beginning or click the numbers above to jump to a particular topic. Previous editions of Ask Richard are available under Quick Links toward the bottom of this email.

 

Have a question for Richard? Send it to Wavelengths and your question could be a featured topic in the next installment of Ask Richard.

Bill Setchell is retiring after 12 years with Riverside Research

Bill SetchellBill was instrumental in supporting the ISR TOPOFF Pre-deployment Training Program and even had the opportunity to go on-site to personally train the soldiers. Bill provided some of his most memorable stories from his career (1) Just to Get Started, (2) Some Not-So-Serious Experiences, (3) Most Interesting Experiences, and (4) A Couple of Close Calls all of which are must reads, see page 2. Bill, we wish you a blessed retirement full of more great stories!

USPTO Issues another Patent to Lizzi Center

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Patent No. 8,292,812 B2, Ultrasonic detection of brachytherapy seeds based on singular spectrum analysis, to our Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Ernie Feleppa, Lizzi Center Director, and Dr. Jonathan Mamou are the inventors. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, this invention has the ability to save prostate cancer patients weeks of radiation treatment by determining the exact location of implanted seeds. Riverside Research now holds 19 active patents; seventeen reside in the Lizzi Center. Read More

Riverside Research Forges Partnership with Exelis VIS

    

Riverside Research partnered with Exelis Visual Information Solutions (VIS) to host a   three-day training session entitled "ENVI for Spectral PED," the first-ever ENVI training specifically designed to address the unique requirements of Spectral Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED). ENVI is the premier software application and industry standard for easily processing and analyzing geospatial imagery. Nearly 20 intelligence professionals supporting NASIC attended the training event at our Dayton Research Center last month. Read More 

Hard Work Pays Off for Two CIS Interns

 
 
Steven Byrd (right) and Michael Silvers (left) came to Riverside Research as software developers studying Computer Information Systems (CIS) at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. The students made the most of their internship opportunity, gaining valuable hands-on experience that led to certification in AGI's flagship analysis software, Systems Tool Kit (STK). Upon completing the intern program, Steven and Michael were hired as part-time consultants to our Cyber Research Lab in support of a major IR&D project. Read More

Collegiate Partnerships Build Case for UAS Test Site in Dayton

Wilberforce    

 

The Dayton region has its sights set on landing one of the FAA's highly coveted Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) test sites. Partnerships with several local colleges, including Wilberforce University, place our E&T Directorate at the center of Dayton's UAS workforce development surge. Riverside Research and Wilberforce have teamed up to offer Dayton's first and only bachelor degree program in Advanced Technical Intelligence and Remote Sensing. Three new courses were added for the upcoming spring semester, two of which are not offered anywhere else in the nation. Read More

 

You can also read more on the local news website WDTN or watch the video clip. 

 

 

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