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2002 Press Release Archive
Duning Named Dayton Site
Director
November
8, 2002
- The promotion of Stephen L. Duning
to Director of Syracuse Research Corporation’s Dayton, Ohio, site was
announced by Mary K. Tyszko, Vice President Operations.
A SRC employee since 1998,
Duning will be responsible for the overall operation and business
development of SRC’s Dayton site. He has 16 years of experience in
research and engineering analysis of military radar and associated
electronic equipment. He also provides technical support to several
national databases, including the Electronic Warfare Integrated
Reprogramming Database and the Air Force Mission Support System. In
addition to his operational responsibilities, Duning is the program
manager of the Foreign Electronic Systems Capability contract with the
USAF at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Duning is a graduate of
the University of Dayton and has previously worked for the National Air
Intelligence Center. While at NAIC, he received a letter of commendation
from the Commander of the Foreign Technology Division at WPAFB for his
support to Operation Desert Storm.
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 400 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
Syracuse Research
Corporation Wins $1 Million Library of Medicine Contract
November
8, 2002
- Syracuse Research Corporation has
been awarded a contract for the National Library of Medicine's Hazardous
Substance Databank. SRC is anticipated to receive $225,000 per year for
the next five years, for a total contract value of $1.125 million.
Under this contract, SRC
will provide information on environmental fate and exposure for the
NLM’s HSDB and Chemical Files. Environmental fate and exposure refers to
what happens to chemicals when they are released into the environment
and how humans or environmental organisms are exposed.
Part of this effort will
include identifying new chemicals that might be hazardous to the public
and environment. With the new information, SRC plans to develop new
sections of the HSDB, as well as updating existing ones. SRC has
provided support for the Environmental Fate and Exposure section of HSDB
for over 20 years and has reviewed over 1800 chemicals during that time.
"This contract is the
direct result of our experience as a leader in using technology to
improve the quality of our environment,” said Mary K. Tyzsko, Vice
President Operations. “Our scientists and engineers are experts in
providing the services and resources that the NLM and other agencies
seek time and time again.”
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 400 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
Syracuse Research
Corporation Wins $23M Air Force Contract
November
7, 2002
- Syracuse Research Corporation has
been awarded a five-year, $23 million contract supporting the Sensor
Beam Program at the Air Force Information Warfare Center, San Antonio,
Texas.
Under the Sensor Beam Program contract, SRC will
continue to support AFIWC’s mission as it has for the past 10 years. SRC
will provide engineering support to AFIWC’s electronic/information
warfare and strategic planning missions. The support includes
engineering systems analysis, electronic warfare database development
and support analysis, mission planning systems tools, application
support, and software development.
“This contract is the direct result of our
in-depth and demonstrated high-quality services and products SRC
provided to AFIWC over the past 10 years," said Mary Tyszko, SRC Vice
President Operations. "We are delighted to continue our support to AFIWC
under this contract. Winning this contract strengthens SRC's position as
a national leader in the field of electronic systems analysis and
information systems development. It will have a strong, positive impact
on our Central New York operations as well."
SRC currently has over 45 jobs posted for all its
locations and is expected to hire up to 100 people this fiscal year to
support contract growth. SRC’s career opportunities can be viewed on the
web at
www.syrres.com/career.
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 400 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
Dr. Philip Howard Elected
to SETAC North America Board
November
7, 2002
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Dr. Philip H. Howard, of Syracuse Research Corporation, was recently
elected to the board of directors of the North American branch of the
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, a scientific society
of 5,000 members from the U.S., Canada, and more than 70 countries
worldwide. He will serve for the years 2003-2005.
With more than 30 years service at SRC,
Dr. Howard is Senior Director of its Environmental Science Center and is
an environmental chemistry editor for the SETAC journal, Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry. He leads an internationally recognized group
of expert scientists and support staff in scientific analysis and
support in the areas of environmental chemistry and exposure and risk
assessment for federal, state, and local governments; research groups;
and commercial chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
SETAC is a worldwide, independent,
nonprofit professional society that provides a forum for
interdisciplinary communication among environmental scientists –
biologists, chemists, toxicologists. It was founded in 1979 and convenes
an annual meeting with state-of-the-science poster and platform
presentations in the fields of analytical chemistry, anatomy/physiology,
atmospheric sciences, biology, toxicology, ecology, environmental and
organic chemistry, genetics, microbiology, and soil and water sciences.
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 400 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
Industry Statement on Release of EPA's "PBT Profiler" Web Page
September 26, 2002
- The American Chemistry Council
(ACC), Chlorine Chemistry Council® (CCC) and Synthetic Organic Chemical
Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) welcomes the release of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) PBT Profiler. The PBT Profiler
is a user-friendly screening tool to identify materials that may need
additional technical evaluation for environmental persistence (P),
bioaccumulation (B) and toxicity (T) characteristics. The PBT Profiler
web page can be found at
www.epa.gov/oppt/pbtprofiler.
The chemical industry recognizes that PBTs should receive priority
attention in industry risk characterization, risk management, and
pollution prevention programs and has committed to a goal of reducing
the potential human health and environmental risks that may be
associated with PBTs. Developing the Profiler was a collaborative
effort among EPA and members of ACC, CCC and SOCMA. Each participated in
the testing of the Profiler and provided valuable feedback to EPA on the
function of the Profiler. In addition, members of the three associations
were major contributors to the information contained in the existing
databases
ACC, CCC and SOCMA recognize that there are limitations associated with
the Profiler and they are spelled out by EPA on the web site. For
example, the PBT Profiler is a predictive screening tool to be used when
actual test data are not available. Data from a well-conducted study
should always take precedence over estimated values generated by the PBT
Profiler. Also, because the Profiler is based on estimates and
calculations, there are inherent uncertainties and results must be
interpreted with care. The Profiler’s predictions are not sufficient to
definitively label a material a PBT chemical. The PBT Profiler is a
research tool to identify chemicals that may need further
characterization; it is not a tool to trigger regulatory actions.
Despite its limitations, the PBT Profiler is expected to be a useful
tool for ACC, CCC, and SOCMA members in identifying substances as
possible PBTs that would deserve priority attention in further hazard
and risk characterization. The three associations will be encouraging
its members to consider the use of the Profiler by highlighting the
tool’s availability in various organizational literature and in working
with EPA in providing training workshops on the appropriate use of the
Profiler in product evaluation.
ACC, CCC and SOCMA appreciate EPA's work in
developing the PBT Profiler and other pollution prevention tools and are
grateful for the opportunity to coordinate with the Agency on this
important work. ACC, CCC and SOCMA will continue to work with EPA to
refine the Profiler and other pollution prevention tools.
Environmental Defense Offers Support For New EPA Internet Tool
September 25, 2002
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Environmental Defense today applauded the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) launch of the "PBT Profiler", a new online tool (www.epa.gov/oppt/pbtprofiler)
for assessing three critical properties of chemicals - persistence,
bioaccumulation potential and toxicity -- that help determine their
impact on health and the environment. So-called "PBT chemicals" having
all of these properties are particularly dangerous, DDT, PCBs and
dioxins being a few notorious examples.
"For many of the
chemicals that are made and used every day, there is surprisingly little
publicly available information about their hazard," said Dr. Richard A.
Denison, a senior scientist with Environmental Defense. "By providing
good estimates for some of these properties and making them widely
available via a user-friendly internet tool, the PBT Profiler is another
significant step forward in addressing this 'toxic ignorance'." Denison
noted that the toxicity element in the initial version is limited
primarily to assessing potential harm to fish, but provides a solid
framework to which additional health-related indicators can be added as
more data become available and estimation techniques are refined.
Environmental Defense,
which created the popular Scorecard website (www.scorecard.org)
several years ago, assisted EPA in testing and refining the new
internet-based tool.
Denison cited a wide
range of potential uses for the PBT Profiler: "Chemical manufacturers
can use it to assess new chemicals they're developing, while consumer
product companies can screen potential product ingredients and compare
alternative formulations. Institutional and individual purchasers of
chemical products can evaluate their ingredients, giving preference to "PBT-free"
products. And citizens can gain a greater understanding of the hazards
posed by chemicals to which they may be exposed," Denison said.
"Some important
limitations also apply to the PBT Profiler," said Denison. "Chemicals
estimated to be persistent and bioaccumulative (PB) but not toxic to
fish can still be harmful due to toxicity to humans or other organisms.
Similarly, persistent and toxic (PT) or bioaccumulative and toxic (BT)
chemicals are of concern especially in situations of frequent or
continual exposure. The Profiler cannot provide definitive assessments
either of chemical hazard or of safety, and is best used to flag
chemicals that need to be examined further. And the estimates provided
by the Profiler should not be used when reliable, measured data are
available, nor do they reduce the need to develop such data. Only then
will we have fully confronted the challenge of toxic ignorance."
EPA Tool Improves Screening for Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic
Chemicals
September 25, 2002
- EPA today
released the PBT Profiler, an on-line chemical screening tool developed
jointly by the Agency, the American Chemistry Council, the Chlorine
Chemistry Council, the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers
Association and with contributions from Environmental Defense. The
Profiler screens for potential persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBTs)
chemicals -- toxic substances that persist for extended periods in the
environment and build up (bioaccumulate) in humans and animals. This new
tool allows companies to screen for PBT chemicals faster than
traditional methods, to select safer alternatives to PBTs for use in new
and existing products and to incorporate pollution prevention into the
chemical development process. More than 120 chemical companies and other
parties participated in testing the PBT Profiler, including DuPont, PPG
Industries, S.C. Johnson and Eastman Kodak. Since 1999, EPA has required
certain additional PBT chemicals to be reported under Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) using a lower reporting threshold than the other TRI
chemicals. For more information on the PBT Profiler, see:
www.epa.gov/oppt/pbtprofiler.
Syracuse Research
Corporation Wins Second Cogswell Award
San Antonio, TX, September 25, 2002 –
SRC is proud to
announce that the Corporation has been awarded the James S. Cogswell
Award for security excellence in its San Antonio facility. This is the
Corporation’s seventh Cogswell Award.
The Cogswell Award is
the most prestigious security award given to industry by the Department
of Defense. There are over 11,500 DoD contractors including almost two
hundred in Upstate New York. Of these 11,500 contractors, only 12 were
awarded the Cogswell Award this year. SRC was previously awarded the
Cogswell in 1975, 1978, 1985, 1995 (2 awards), and 1998. Once a facility is
awarded a Cogswell, it cannot compete again for three years.
Milton
Driggers stated, “Winning the Cogswell Award is a team effort and
requires a dedication to the security program by all members of the
Corporation, including the security staff, management, the
administrative staff, and the engineers and scientists. We are extremely
proud of our employees and believe that this illustrates how important
we view our customers and their information. It also reflects that we
are experts and leaders in security.”
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 400 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
ChemS3 Chemistry Substructure Search System Available from
Syracuse Research Corporation
Syracuse, NY, June 24, 2002
- The Environmental Science Center of
Syracuse Research Corporation has developed the Chemistry Substructure
Search System (ChemS3) to add chemistry capabilities to
existing data sources. ChemS3 is a chemistry search engine
developed for both Internet and intranet applications, and is based on
four components: search engine, drawing applet, chemistry viewer, and
database interface. Using SQL to harness the power and speed of
relational databases, ChemS3 provides developers the complete
freedom to fully integrate chemical structure capabilities with their
existing data sources.
ChemS3
integrates with existing chemistry software and provides
browser-independent, server-side processing. There are no design
restrictions associated with ChemS3; the full creative
freedom of HTML can be utilized to provide information to users. ChemS3
can be used to create complex queries that combine text and numeric data
or to simply display a chemical structure on existing web pages.
Chemical queries can be drawn directly on the web page, and ChemS3
displays the search results within seconds. There are no limits on the
numbers of users or the number of records in the database, and ChemS3
works equally well with flat files or relational tables.
A demo of ChemS3 is now available at
www.syrres.com/esc/chems3. Substructure
searching can be performed using
SRC’s Pointer File (which contains
structures, names, and important pointers to experimental and estimated
data for nearly 20,000 chemical substances), available free-of-charge. ChemS3
and the Pointer File serve as a substructure searchable front-end
to SRC’s Environmental Fate Data Base.
A
Microsoft NT server running Internet Information Server version 4.0 or
later is required to run ChemS3. It is fully compatible with
Netscape and Internet Explorer, and no add-ins or helper applications
need to be downloaded and installed. ChemS3 was developed by
SRC in collaboration with Professor Ovanes Mekenyan at the Laboratory of
Mathematical Chemistry in Bourgas, Bulgaria.
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 375 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
NIMA Awards Alliance Members, Including Syracuse Research Corporation, $70
Million Procurement Agreement
Syracuse, NY, March 26, 2002 –
The National Imagery and
Mapping Agency awarded members of the Chemical, Biological, and
Radiological Technology Alliance a Procurement Agreement for Support of
the National Technology Alliance (NTA). As a member of this alliance and part of
the management team with 3M, Syracuse Research Corporation will
participate in the five-year agreement that has a potential value of more
than $70 million.
NIMA
serves as the Executive Agent for the NTA Program and executes the program
on behalf of the National Intelligence Community, Department of Defense
and other government agencies. In its capacity as Executive Agent, NIMA
will execute the CBRTA contract to address the CBR defense needs of such
government organizations as the Federal Bureau of Investigation; National
Institutes of Health; Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Centers for Disease
Control; and the Department of Energy.
The
CBRTA is composed of elements from the following 14 organizations:
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Syracuse Research Corporation
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3M
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Becton Dickinson
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Black & Veatch
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Calspan – Univ. of
Buffalo Research Center
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Cargill
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General Dynamics
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Honeywell
International
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Johns Hopkins
Univ./Applied Physics Laboratory
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Lucent Technologies
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Mayo Clinic
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Motorola
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RAE
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Veridian Corporation
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The NTA is a U.S. government program established in 1987 to help the
government capitalize on commercial technology advances. The NTA's purpose
is to discover, initiate, influence and accelerate commercial and dual-use
technology development to meet national security and defense needs. The
NTA has a history of accomplishments in research, development,
prototyping, evaluations, and demonstrations of technology through
partnerships with industry and academic institutions.
The
primary goal of projects executed under the agreement will be to identify
optimum solutions to Government technology challenges and create new or
enhanced commercial products where the cost of development and maintenance
may be shared among a broad user community. Emerging technology
capabilities will also be continually reassessed, and other partners from
industry and academia may be added to the teams.
The
CBRTA will provide the government with best-of-class technology and
commercial capabilities through the alliance membership representing broad
CBR technology capabilities. This team will assess government needs,
identify solutions, and collaborate on the research, development, and
prototyping tasks.
Don
Shepard, Ph.D. of SRC, is the Technology Area Manager for CBRTA. He is the
technical point of contact between the Alliance members and the
government. His duties include monitoring program progress toward
milestone events, and facilitating the overall program technical
requirements.
The
current capabilities SRC will use as a member of the Alliance include:
providing scientific underpinnings that support many Environmental
Protection Agency and Center for Disease Control decisions, knowledge and
understanding of environmental dynamics that provide direction to the
government, development of quantitative structure activity relationships
capable of predicting the environmental behavior of chemicals, development
of models to predict exposure concentration in complex environments, and
providing independent and objective evaluations of technologies identified
by Alliance members. Mary K. Tyszko, VP Operations for SRC, stated, “Being
a member of this alliance makes sense since SRC has always played a role
in projects of national significance and is considered an expert in many
areas that can support the tasks required of CBRTA. Especially in these
times of national crisis, we are proud to assist NIMA and work to improve
the technologies that can make a difference in the future.”
The
CBRTA will leverage government investment and accelerate product
development by applying existing commercial investment of more than $10
billion per year in R&D technologies and by partnering within the Alliance
to bring best-of-class capabilities together. An Alliance Advisory Group
representing government agencies such as CIA, NSA, CDC, FBI, and DOE will
assist the CBRTA in providing solutions that bridge needs across
government agencies.
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of national
significance. Today, the company employs more than 375 people, with eight
offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue over the
past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
Syracuse
Research Corporation Expands Operations
Syracuse, NY,
February 07, 2002 –
Syracuse Research Corporation has
expanded its offices in Syracuse New York. A new lease was signed for an
additional facility for SRC at Salina Meadows. SRC’s space lease was
negotiated by Mark Bethmann of The BellGroup who acted as their Tenant
Representative. SRC currently has its corporate office on Running Ridge
Road.
Their additional offices will be located
at 301 Plainfield Road in the Salina Meadows Office Park. Salina Meadows
Office Park provides a state of the art fitness facility, deli and other
amenities on site as well as a state of the art security system.
SRC is an independent, not-for-profit
research and development leader focused on technology programs of
national significance. Today, the company employs more than 375 people,
with eight offices across the United States. SRC has doubled its revenue
over the past five years and anticipates continued strong growth.
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