2017 ANNUAL REPORT

YEARS OF TRUSTED SOLUTIONS

Riverside Research is a not-for-profit organization chartered to

advance scientific research for the benefit of the US government

and in the public interest since 1967. Our not-for-profit status

allows us to be independent and unbiased and enables us to

reinvest our earnings into the continuous development of our

technical workforce and our open innovation approach to research.

Our open innovation R&D model encourages both internal and

external collaboration to accelerate innovation, advance science,

and expand market opportunities.

50 YEARS OF TRUSTED SOLUTIONS

1967Our engineers assisted with the collection and analysis of radar data taken on reentry vehicles being tested at the White Sands Missile Range for the AMRAD Measurements Program.

1972We were deeply involved through all stages of formulation, acquisition, and test and evaluation for the COBRA JUDY radar—a phased array radar system that provided a national capability for collecting data on foreign missile tests.

2009We modified our government-off-the-shelf software, Automated Collection Planning Tool, to perform mission and daily collection planning for TacSat-3.

2015The Open Innovation Center, a 30,000 ft2 expansion to our Dayton Research Center, was unveiled, serving as a collaborative work environment to drive innovation and develop high-end technology solutions in the areas of machine learning, trusted and resilient systems, electromagnetics, optics and photonics, plasma physics, and radio frequency systems.

TODAYRiverside Research is now a $95M company with over 500 employees working to deliver high-end, trusted solutions around the country at customer sites and within cleared research facilities, including Boston, New York City, Washington DC, and Dayton, OH.

1967What began as the Columbia University Electronics Research Laboratory supporting government contracts from the US Air Force in the early 1950s eventually led to the founding of Riverside Research.

1985We examined the compatibility between system requirements and the wide variety of technologies under the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.

1999Began work as an advisory support contractor for the Air Force Big Safari Program, providing engineering, management, logistics, and acquisition support to the RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft.

2000Our scientists and engineers laid the foundation for operationalizing IC and DOD Overhead Non-Imaging Infrared (ONIR), now known as Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR), collection and processing architectures to support military operations. years

1983A major biomedical breakthrough established the initial framework for quantitative ultrasound (QUS) in 3D for tissue analysis.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEORiverside Research began as the Columbia University Electronics Research Laboratory in the early 1950s. Supported by government contracts and consulting work, Mr. Lawrence H. O’Neill transitioned the organization to an independent not-for-profit corporation in the state of New York in May of 1967 and began operating as a separate entity from Columbia University on December 1, 1967. During those 50 years, Riverside Research engineers and scientists have consistently reached beyond the status quo and stretched the art of the possible in the service to our country. In 2017, as we looked back over those years in our “Then and Now” series, it was gratifying to see the consistent theme of innovation intensely focused on the missions of our customers.

That theme is as important today as it was in any of our previous 50 years, and the innovative spirit of our organization continues to be what our customers need and want. One of the things you’ll read about in this annual report is the progress we’ve made in the Open Innovation Center (OIC). The OIC is the current manifestation of our commitment to research and innovation; and it’s a fitting focal point of this report. In 2016, we were focused on building the labs and getting the equipment in place. In 2017, we focused on bringing in new staff, aligning our independent research and development (IR&D) programs, and introducing the OIC concept across the company and to our customers. In 2018, the OIC will continue to mature with three objectives:

• Implement IR&D programs that align with our customers’ long-term objectives

• Secure customer-funded R&D programs• Facilitate technology insertion throughout the Riverside

Research business units

We want the OIC to be a place where we can build ideas— a concept that differentiates us from our competitors. We want the OIC to be a part of our culture as a workforce that is curious, collaborative, and connected to our past and our future.

But our goal for the OIC to be a key discriminator, and the broader vision of Riverside Research as the destination company in our industry, can’t exist without the valuable work that our employees contribute every day. It is our employees’ hard work, attention to detail, and above-and-beyond work ethic that provide the foundation for everything we want to accomplish in the future. In 2017, we protected and grew many of our current contracts and continued to expand to new customers to build on what we’ve accomplished in the last 50 years. We added new talent to our staff and outstanding new members to our board of trustees. The progress we made in 2017 not only included critical contract wins and other high-profile achievements, but also the exceptional contributions each of our employees made.

As we look forward, we will continue to build a flexible, efficient organization that embraces a culture of collaboration and curiosity—with employees empowered to ask why and prepared to explore innovative solutions. In the first 50 years, Riverside Research gave us an incredible foundation; now we have the opportunity to extend and expand that legacy in the next 50 years.

Sincerely,

Dr. Steven R. OmickPresident and CEO

Dear Colleagues and Friends of Riverside Research:

As we look forward, we will continue to build a flexible, efficient organization that embraces a culture of collaboration and curiosity—with employees empowered to ask why and prepared to explore innovative solutions.

—Steve Omick, PhD, President and CEO

RIVERSIDE RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2017 5 4 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS

CELEBRATING 50 YEARSRiverside Research celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017. The company began as the Electronics Research Laboratory of Columbia University. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and first president of Riverside Research, Lawrence H. O’Neill, proposed a separation from the university in 1967. Since that time, Riverside Research has played a key role in the advancement of radar programs, pioneered breakthroughs in the fields of coherent optics and laser systems, and conducted seminal research in cancer detection and treatment. Today, Riverside Research conducts independent, mission-focused research in plasma physics, optics and photonics, machine learning, RF systems, electromagnetics, trusted and resilient systems, and biomedical engineering. The company has over 500 employees with its headquarters in New York City and research offices in Dayton, OH, Washington, DC, and Boston, MA, along with smaller operating locations in other cities across the country.

50TH ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES

To honor the company’s 50th anniversary, Riverside Research organized charitable events employees could participate in such as the American Heart Association (AHA) 5K Run/Walk and the 500 Hours of Service Campaign. For the heart walk, employee teams were organized near office locations, and all donations were matched by the company. More information about the 500 Hours of Service Campaign can be found in Community Outreach, page 14.

New investigations were initiated in 1975 to determine the scattering properties of the highly turbulent air which persists after passage of a hypersonic, plasma-clad reentry vehicle and permits the detection of “late-time” radar echoes.

Riverside Research’s large vacuum chamber enables advanced research and development of applications for ionospheric, space, and hypersonic plasma environments, plasma-magnetic field interactions, dusty plasmas, and in-space propulsion devices.

In 1978, the Riverside Research optics program developed laser sensor technology for applications in agile beam laser radar transmitters and receivers, designed fine angle trackers using laser radars, and developed algorithms for precision laser angle tracking.

To innovate and pioneer in optics and photonics research, Riverside Research has expanded its portfolio to encompass cutting-edge research in terahertz photonics, remote sensing, biomedical optics, and material characterization.

Lawrence H. O’Neill, Founder

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OPEN INNOVATION CENTER

Plasma Physics

Riverside Research has been developing a new LaVoPS capability that when completed, will generate a large volume (~4 m3) of magnetized plasma. This capability will allow us to pursue several research paths. In the short term, LaVoPS will enable research on ionospheric turbulence, which is of particular interest to several customers since turbulence negatively impacts GPS and over-the-horizon radar signals. During 2017, Riverside Research finalized the designs of all key components of the LaVoPS setup, including the cathode assembly (designed to exceed 2,200oC to produce plasma), the electromagnets, and most of the diagnostics. We also successfully tested the cathode assembly, and built and tested a microwave interferometry diagnostic that will be used to characterize the plasma’s density and provide other diagnostics.

We have also been focused on researching plasma-based metamaterials.Traditional metamaterials are devices formed from periodic lattices of dielectrics and metals. Due to their microstructure, these devices exhibit extraordinary bulk electromagnetic properties, such as the appearance of electromagnetic band gaps. In our research, we aim to include plasmas as an element within the metamaterial. The advantage of using plasmas is that we can easily alter their properties, and thereby alter the bulk electromagnetic response of the metamaterial.

Our plasma physics experts conducted research focused on defect-driven plasma production. Within a metamaterial, a defect is created by breaking the periodicity of the lattice. We have observed that the electric field of an incident wave is enhanced within the region of the defect. Our goal is to employ this field enhancement as a mechanism to drive plasma production. Reaching that goal would enable us to change the bulk properties of the metamaterial. Riverside Research has already used finite-element-method (FEM) modeling techniques to design a metamaterial that employs a defect.

The OIC’s second year of operation was an exciting year. It began with Governor John Kasich and members of his cabinet meeting in our plasma physics lab with technology leaders and economic development officials to discuss how his proposed budget and investments would drive innovation and growth in Ohio. Over the course of the year, our labs conducted research and development (R&D) in several technical areas:

• Quantitative ultrasound for cancer detection• Computational methods for high-frequency electromagnetic

interactions• Machine-learning-based classification of RF signals• Asynchronous THz system for blackbox scanning and

counterfeit detection• Large volume plasma source for ionospheric and hypersonic

physics, a novel software-defined radio implementation• Security architectures for open systems

The OIC experienced significant growth in 2017. The number of research staff working full time in the OIC doubled from 12 to 24, with six additional staff members matrixed from other business units who worked half of their time in the OIC labs developing new technologies and capabilities that our customers can leverage and the other half providing on-site support to customers.

The OIC’s growing research staff, technical diversity, and subject matter expertise derived from years of customer support will facilitate our pivot to increase company-wide contract R&D activities.

Plasma physics is a particularly fascinating field of research; after all, over 99 percent of the matter in the universe is thought to be in the plasma state.

—Chris Plechaty, PhD, Lead Plasma Physics Researcher

The OIC provides Riverside Research with unique R&D capabilities and positions us to pursue research opportunities requiring multidisciplinary expertise.

— Jeffrey Pursel, PhD, Executive Director, OIC

Current LaVoPS Design

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Optics & Photonics Machine Learning

Riverside Research is dedicated to helping our customers optimize the performance and efficiency of their critical national-security missions through the judicious application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to their existing baseline of technology, tools, and tradecraft. AI/ML is revolutionizing modern approaches to intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data processing through the integration of systems that automate production and analysis. By integrating AI/ML with advanced sensor technologies, we are developing intelligent automated sensing systems that can learn and adapt to their environment, perform complex problem-solving tasks, and ultimately make intellectual decisions.

In partnership with our Intelligence & Defense Solutions business unit, we expanded our collaborative support to key customers by more than 400 percent, while doubling our full-time research staff. We successfully pursued research opportunities with the US Army and Air Force. It was also an active year for creating intellectual property with the filing of two patents, authoring of 18 white papers, and the acceptance and presentation of two research papers with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Riverside Research is making a huge impact on the national stage as well. We have staff cochairing the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ML and AI Working Group, through which we are directly impacting AI/ML implementation strategy at the national-agency level.

AI technology is changing how we relate to other technology systems; properly applied, AI and ML can enable a more natural interaction between people and machines. AI enabled computational systems can enhance the analyst’s ability to make better sense of their data, leading to more insightful and accurate results, help a soldier make a shoot/no-shoot decision, reducing unnecessary casualties, or help a sensor platform better understand the environment in which it is operating, optimizing, and maximizing the efficiency of ISR collection missions. These systems can sense their environment, read text, images, and data, listen, and see; they can provide interactive feedback and results using natural language, either speaking or writing to us, and even helping to direct our actions.

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There has never been a more exciting time to work in artificial intelligence research. The impact of our work has a direct effect on improving our nation’s security, which is immensely satisfying on both a personal and professional level.

— Ted Josue, Director of Intelligent Systems and ML

The AI race is real, and Riverside Research is helping to transform the battlespace with advanced, novel AI/ML techniques in this winner-take-all technology.

—Jeff Clark, PhD, Research Director of ML Research

Our optics and photonics research program experienced a transformative year in 2017. We have established new capabilities such as distributed optical sensors for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) detection and an asynchronous Terahertz (THz) system for blackbox scanning and counterfeit detection. We are focusing on our mission to develop breakthrough and disruptive technologies and strategically align ourselves with future DOD needs by developing new research projects. These projects include, but are not limited to, remote sensing using a distributed optical stellar interferometer, optical neural chip development for data processing at the speed of light, and a quantum key distributor for next-generation cryptography and cybersecurity.

We are living in the golden age of innovation where well-established methods and industries are invariably being challenged or disrupted by new technologies. The research world is in an expeditious state of explosive growth where ideas complex problems are solved collaboratively to transform ideas into functional products. Our Open Innovation Center allows us to experience this state within our company’s ecosystem, which eminently accelerates group- and self-learning, which in turn creates a pathway for innovations.

—Ashwin Fisher, PhD, Director of Optics and Photonics Research

The diverse, collaborative research environment of the OIC has allowed me to expand my abilities and knowledge in ways I never thought possible. Collaboration on research projects outside of my direct field helps further my research through technical exchange and adaptation.

—Zach Thompson, PhD, Terahertz Research Scientist

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Riverside Research developed a multipath susceptibility test framework with the objective of determining how tolerant specific fundamental radio frequency (RF) waveforms are of multipath effects. One aspect of this research was an initiative to gain approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to broadcast on military frequencies using experimental waveforms between Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Riverside Research’s Dayton, OH, office. This research is ongoing and will culminate in physical verification by transmitting representative waveforms using our NTIA-allocated spectrum over a distance of approximately one nautical mile. To facilitate high-quality tests, Riverside Research will augment our existing capabilities by adding an extendible, remotely controlled mast, and a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) continuous operation reference station.

Riverside Research’s groundbreaking research into security architectures for open systems has led us to develop the Secura architecture. The Secura computing architecture pushes security down the hardware/software stack to more efficiently protect systems from entire classes of known and unknown vulnerabilities. The Secura architecture’s three foundational security components are its open-source cryptographic algorithms, a processor based on an open-instruction-set architecture, and a formally verified firmware layer running just above the processor. Riverside Research has completed initial prototypes of the cryptographic core and the formally verified firmware. Using these prototypes, we have demonstrated the feasibility of these two critical components by conducting experiments to measure and characterize the overhead associated with adding these components into common computing systems. We will present some of our results at the 2018 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference.

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Radio Frequency Systems

Trusted & Resilient Systems

Biomedical Engineering

Riverside Research biomedical engineering collaborated with numerous world-class institutions on multiple projects throughout 2017. For the third year in a row, we led a $4M, 5-year academic-industrial partnership (AIP) funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our partners include GE Global Research, Stony Brook Medicine affiliated with the State University of New York, and Kuakini Medical Center affiliated with the University of Hawaii. AIPs are intended to translate promising technologies into clinically useful devices based on research performed collaboratively by academic and industry investigators. This AIP is validating and refining advanced QUS and 3D-imaging methods for identifying cancers in lymph nodes that would be missed using conventional methods.

Along with New York University’s (NYU’s) Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, Riverside Research was awarded the second year of funding of a $2M, 4-year NIH grant for the In-utero Mouse Embryo Phenotyping with High-frequency Ultrasound project. During the second year, 3D ultrasound data was acquired from normal and mutant mouse embryos, and automatic image-segmentation algorithms were developed. A paper titled “High-speed, high-frequency ultrasound, in-utero, vector-flow imaging of mouse embryos” was published in Scientific Reports.

Riverside Research is also teaming with scientists at Duke University on a new, 2-year, feasibility-assessment project funded by NIH that will combine advanced QUS-based methods of identifying and imaging prostate cancer with similar methods developed by Duke University that sense the distinguishing elasticity properties of cancer foci using a technique called acoustic radiation-force impulse (ARFI) imaging. Preliminary studies show that combining QUS and ARFI methods can improve the ability to detect and image prostate cancer significantly.

Now in the third year of a $2M, 4-year project funded by an NIH grant to Columbia University Medical Center, Riverside Research has been providing instrumentation and data-analysis support on a project to image blood flow in the vascular layers of the eye in order to study perfusion in glaucoma. Using state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment capable of transmitting plane waves at a very high frame rate, the team has developed a technique to visualize blood flow in 3D.

Sonify Biosciences, a medical-device startup company in Baltimore, MD, is developing an ultrasound-based hyperthermia system to treat melanomas, other skin cancers, and a variety of ultrasonically accessible superficial tumors. In collaboration with Sonify during 2017, Riverside Research simulated thermally radiated electromagnetic power from tissue as a function of temperature.

Our group has been investigating QUS for evaluating tissue, particularly for detecting and imaging cancers since the 1970s, and we continue to create innovative methods that reduce the cost of care and improve patient outcomes. One of our most exciting current projects is improving means of detecting cancers that have spread to lymph nodes. This area of research now is focused on detecting cancer in lymph nodes within the body. Evaluating lymph nodes without surgical removal would expedite cancer staging and avoid unnecessary excisions of cancer-free lymph nodes.

—Ernest Feleppa, PhD, Director of Biomedical Engineering

The facilities provided by the Open Innovation Center, particularly the fabrication lab and the RF lab, have allowed us to respond quickly to our customers’ needs.

—Dan Kien, RF Systems Expert

The Secura will be a major enhancement for cyber defense. Because the Secura architecture is designed to protect systems from common classes of vulnerabilities rather than specific known vulnerabilities, this technology shifts the defensive paradigm to a more strategic position. As we continue to mature the Secura architecture, we plan to demonstrate it in a wide variety of domains including cloud computing, sensor systems, mission systems, and end-user computers.

—Mike Clark, PhD, Cryptographic Researcher

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Expanding Radar Capabilities and Research AreasWith the advent of automated sensor platforms, low-cost radio frequency (RF) hardware, high-output semiconductor technology, and advanced digital beamforming, the long-range radar sensing landscape has become more complex than ever. To take advantage of advancements in the ever-changing sensing landscape, Riverside Research has expanded its capabilities to provide excellent value to our customers across a variety of new sensor applications and missions.

New areas of research in support of our customers’ missions include jammer suppression, synthetic aperture radar (SAR)/inverse SAR (ISAR) techniques and algorithms, unique waveform modulation schemes, and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques for distributed radar approaches. Our radar experts have developed tools to model and design systems and algorithms to address the operational modes related to these areas of research. Additionally, we developed tools to model Doppler phenomenology. These tools can be used in the development of new SAR and ISAR algorithms, waveforms, and processing approaches that are key to mobile-platform situational-awareness and observation missions. We also explored advanced waveform coding techniques that allow for

reliable jammer suppression, and have the potential to extract new types of information from radar returns. Contracted research and development have driven our radar capabilities to new levels of automation, bringing advanced sensor techniques to the warfighter, and addressing dynamic mission and battlespace needs.

Riverside Research will continue to expand our portfolio of supported missions, platforms, and long-range sensing techniques. This expanded portfolio will grow our business and provide new and unique solutions to our customers by supporting even more radar operational modes that span land, sea, and sky.

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FROM THE LAB TO THE FIELD

Using AI to Aid GEOINT AnalysisGEOINT analysts have stated their desire for innovation in the process of generating geospatial intelligence. For example, the National System for Geospatial Intelligence Strategic Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for 2015 provides guidance for using intelligent machine learning (ML) algorithms to aid the GEOINT analyst. The CONOPS lists “tool-assisted information generation” and “fully automated information generation” as key elements of GEOINT analytic information generation. It also talks about “augmenting analytic capabilities through artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge processes (cognitive/rule-based inferencing, link analysis, pattern identification).”

In response and in coordination with the government and other industry teams, Riverside Research AI experts led efforts to incorporate ML/AI algorithms first against OPIR data, expanding across GEOINT and then to other intelligence data, to produce intelligence community mission-essential products. In our Open Innovation Center ML lab, we have also prototyped various types of neural networks for future development, proving their utility in working with GEOINT and broader intelligence data. Using AI techniques to augment GEOINT analytic processing, Riverside Research has demonstrated that analyst time is refocused on deeper analytics while detection accuracy and sensitivity are increased, enabling more effective and efficient intelligence.

First Field-Programmable Gate ArrayRiverside Research developed our first field-programmable gate array (FPGA) software-defined radio (SDR) and delivered it to our customer. The SDR includes low-density parity checking and other state-of-the-art signal-processing techniques required for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments. Building on this success, Riverside Research has looked at software models and hardware from vendors to evaluate their SDR interoperability. After completing the initial evaluation, we captured transmitted data from the selected vendors’ systems, corrected for sampling time and carrier-frequency offsets, and successfully ran the data through our SDR to show that the systems were indeed interoperable. The resulting model will enable the advancement of secure communication system technology.

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Scholarship RecipientsFor the third consecutive year, Riverside Research offered nearly $50,000 in scholarships through agreements with Dayton, OH, colleges and universities, including Clark State Community College, University of Dayton, and Wright State University. These scholarships support students pursuing degrees related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Seven students were awarded for the 2016–2017 school year, and three students were second-time recipients.

Additionally through a partnership with the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), Riverside Research awarded the second Ken Miller Scholarship for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications, which was named after a founding father of measurement and signature intelligence. It is funded by proceeds from the Riverside Research-authored textbook, The Phenomenology of Intelligence-focused Remote Sensing.

Thank you for the generosity you have bestowed upon me through the Riverside Research Scholarship. Along with my degree in mechanical engineering, I am pursuing a minor in human movement biomechanics. My goal is to combine my passions for service and engineering in a rewarding career.

—Lauren Rivera, University of Dayton

Receiving the Ken Miller Scholarship for Advanced Remote Sensing was huge for me, and I am incredibly grateful to Riverside Research and USGIF. The scholarship has allowed me to enhance the quality of my research by providing funding for specific resources such as a remote sensing software.

—Andrew Knight, University of Georgia

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Waves for ChangeWaves for Change launched in January 2017 as a company-wide initiative to recognize Riverside Research employees who are active in their communities and to encourage them to participate in charitable causes organized by the company. Due to our employees’ generosity and exceptional dedication to serving their communities, we were able to implement the following campaigns and support several charitable organizations.

500 HOURS OF SERVICE

500 Hours of Service was a six-month campaign to honor the company’s 50th anniversary. It highlighted all of the ways our employees volunteered in their communities and beyond with a company goal to reach 500 total hours by the end of 2017. Riverside Research employees exceeded the 500-hour goal and reached 736 hours.

CASUAL FOR A CAUSE

Casual for a Cause gave employees the opportunity to donate a minimum of $3 on payday Fridays and in return wear jeans that Friday. Each quarter supported a different charitable organization.

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Ian Jacobsen Ultrasound Image Processing Intern

New York University MS in electrical engineering

Ian worked with the biomedical engineering team to design an automatic registration scheme between histology and acoustic microscopy images of lymph nodes. The purpose of his project was to provide greater insight for identifying abnormalities within soft tissue that would result in detecting mechanical properties cancer cells more efficiently.

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Internship HighlightsDuring the summer of 2017, Riverside Research was excited to welcome 23 interns working in research offices in Boston, MA, Champaign, IL, Dayton, OH, and New York City, NY. Interns worked under the mentorship of subject matter experts on projects that provided them with real-world experience.

Alvina Lee Scientific Computing Intern

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology BS in electrical engineering

Alvina worked with the electromagnetics team on Aurora—Riverside Research’s antenna and radar modeling tool. Her work focused on developing an asymptotic electromagnetics solver that models Green’s functions to calculate far-field and near-field radiation. Through her internship, Alvina was exposed to working with Linux and C++ for the first time, and she generally gained more knowledge about simulation programs.

Colin Casey Radar Systems Engineer Intern

Northeastern University BS in physics

Colin was introduced to many concepts in digital signal processing, image processing, and radar. He developed a set of simulation tools for the inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) mode, which provides the ability to decide which system and waveform parameters produce the best ISAR image of a potential target. His developments helped expand Riverside Research’s portfolio of design and analysis of radar waveforms to support the synthetic aperture data collection modes.

Eric Moore Plasma Physics Intern

Ohio State University PhD in physics

Eric worked in the plasma physics laboratory with our diagnostics equipment. He automated and tested components that will be employed in our microwave interferometry diagnostics. This diagnostic is an important addition to Riverside Research’s growing list of diagnostics since it allows one to characterize plasma density in an experiment.

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As a not-for-profit organization chartered to advance scientific research in the public interest and the US government, Riverside Research received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop effective measures in education in 1967. Our researchers developed software that predicted and assessed the consequences of decisions and found ways to quantify social and psychological phenomena. As a result, school districts improved their performance and helped teachers individualize instructions based on immediate feedback.

Today, Riverside Research invests in community outreach initiatives and partners with local colleges and universities to facilitate workforce development through scholarship and internship opportunities.

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FRONT ROW (L TO R): RALPH J. MASTRANDREA MEMORIAL AWARD RECIPIENTS

BACK ROW (L TO R): LAWRENCE H. O’NEILL AWARD FOR SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE RECIPIENTS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

David Dirksen Colorado Springs, CO

Awarded for his dedicated support to the Cobra Dane program and improving our reputation throughout Peterson Air Force Base.

Eric Lally Dayton, OH

Awarded for his exceptional contributions as a key software developer on the Collection Planning Suite program.

Eli Lansey New York City, NY

Awarded for his innovative analysis concept that provided rapid simulation results on a classified problem of critical national interest.

Daniel Scott McLaughlin Dayton, OH

Awarded for developing an MIL-STD 1553 data logger and filter module, which resulted in enhancing the technology readiness level of a working prototype into a single solution.

Rex Mykrantz Dayton, OH

Awarded for his technical expertise as a lead engineer on the Common Data Link (CDL) program for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Jeffrey Oltmanns Dayton, OH

Awarded for his critical role in the National Air and Space Intelligence Center effort to respond to a 2016 Joint Urgent Operational Need combatant command request for additional hyperspectral sensors.

Samuel Bolling Washington, DC

Awarded for leading the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Functional Team at the DIA National MASINT Office.

William Hamilton III Greenville, TX

Awarded for his 10 years of exceptional professionalism and preservation of the positive reputation of Riverside Research.

Kevin Harris Dayton, OH

Awarded for his effective operation of the Airborne Reconnaissance Directorate, providing training and HR services to over 100 off-site personnel who support nearly 50 programs and 200 plus aircraft and traveling around the world in support of urgent military operations.

Timothy Birt Dayton, OH

Awarded for distinguishing himself as an information security expert, keeping the security posture of Riverside Research and our customer systems at the forefront of technological advances in the face of changes in overarching polices and network enterprise advancements.

John Latch Boston, MA

Awarded for his 23 years of commitment, mentoring, and support to Riverside Research and the Fixed Station Program.

Robert Cody Dayton, OH

Awarded for his contributions as the original algorithm developer and data analyst for a unique experimental national intelligence OPIR sensor system and leading the maturation of the multispectral electro-optical sensor program for over 25 years.

Brian Skow Dayton, OH

Awarded for the significant impact he has made as a geospatial intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence subject matter expert throughout his fifteen-year career with Riverside Research.

Also pictured: Dr. Steven Omick, President & CEO (upper left) and Thomas Pitts, Chairman of the Board of Trustees until June 2017 (lower right).

The Ralph J. Mastrandrea Memorial Award and the Lawrence H. O’Neill Award for Sustained Excellence are annual honors given to select employees who exemplify the selfless dedication, professionalism, and integrity of our founding principles.

The Riverside Research Board of Trustees congratulates the following recipients for the year 2016.

2016 Board of Trustees Award Winners

Welcome New Board Members

James Mungenast Steven Omick, PhD

Robert Calico, PhD

Stu Shea

Jeffrey Harris

Theodore YorkAngelina Rouse James Shields

Maureen McBride

Lisa Porter, PhD Dr. Lisa Porter joined Riverside Research’s Board in March 2017. With over 20 years of experience in the defense and technology industries, Dr. Porter has held both technical and leadership roles. She currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Director of IQT Labs at In-Q-Tel (IQT).

Reggie Brothers, PhDDr. Reggie Brothers joined Riverside Research’s Board in June 2017. He is an exceptional organizational leader and strategist with over 30 years of demonstrated success across the science and technology ecosystem of academia, industry, laboratories, and the Department of Defense. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Peraton.

Formerly the Vice Chairman, Mr. John Giering has been with the company’s board since 2013. He succeeds Mr. Tom Pitts, who served as Chairman since June 2010 and will continue to serve on the board as Vice Chairman.

John GieringChairman

Thomas PittsVice Chairman

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APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONSApplied Research Solutions (ARS) is completing their sixth year of operations as the proven small business subsidiary of Riverside Research with strategic customers across the USAF, DOD, and intelligence and federal market segments. ARS holds prime contracts on the $50B plus GSA OASIS Small Business contract schedules (Pools 5A, 5B, and 6), the Defense Logistics Agency, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), and the GSA IT-70 and Professional Services Schedule (PSS) Schedules.

ARS was awarded a 5-year, $47M, single-award contract to support the AFLCMC Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) program. This highly competitive program was successfully captured by ARS to support CROWS as the dedicated office responsible for managing the execution of the USAF Cyber Campaign Plan (CCP) and evolving cybersecurity and engineering across USAF weapon systems. The ARS team performs as key advisors for achieving the primary mission goals of “baking-in” cyber resiliency for all new weapon systems and mitigating critical vulnerabilities in current weapon systems. Supporting this first-of-its-kind effort by the USAF, ARS will integrate programmatic and technical cyber efforts across the USAF to include performing cyber risk analysis, embedding cyber into the systems engineering lifecycle, creating a cyber-savvy workforce, enhancing adaptability and modularity of system architectures, increasing cyber assurance in fielded systems in a cost effective and efficient manner, and increasing the integration of cyber intelligence across programs. Critical new technical talent will join ARS in support of the program in the areas of electrical and aeronautical engineering, software engineering, open systems architecture and modular design, and certified information systems security.

ARS initiated their cloud computing practice to support core customers at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory, with a focus on autonomous systems and management of big data for a multitude of sensor collection systems. In addition, they continue to grow within their strategic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance markets, adding positions at the AFIT Center for Cyberspace Research and Center for Directed Energy in Dayton, OH, the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade in Ft. Gordon, GA, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in Ft. Belvoir, VA, and the Office of Naval Intelligence in Suitland, MD. ARS plans to be well-positioned in these areas for years to come.

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Cybersecurity

Program Management

Test andEvaluation

SoftwareDevelopmentfor Land, Air,

and SpaceSystems

InformationTechnology

SystemsEngineering

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