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Sentient Science welcomed Gerald Curtin today as the Director of Asset Answers. Mr. Curtin is a former GE Wind Product Manager and Parts Product Line/Global Remanufacturing leader. Mr. Curtin brings over 10 years of energy experience to Sentient, creating value through O&M cost reduction and new revenue channels. While at GE, Mr. Curtin focused on the development and launch of GE Wind Turbine and GE Solar products including GE's Full Wrap Warranty Service Agreement and PulsePOINT™ condition monitoring. Most recently, he managed a $50MM GE Wind global aftermarket parts business product line. Mr. Curtin has deep knowledge in product development and new product introduction, asset management, remanufacturing and equipment reliability. His focus will be on delivering the most accurate and low cost asset answers in the least amount of time across the Industrial Internet of things.

Sentient Science added Elias Tavarez to its senior management team as the new Vice President of Global Sales. Mr. Tavarez brings over 25 years of experience in developing and scaling software company revenues, most recently with Dassault Systemes, a software company that specializes in product lifecycle management (PLM). For most of Tavarez's tenure at Dassault Systemes, he focused on core industries for North America -- Aerospace & Defense, Transportation & Mobility (Automotive), and Industrial Equipment. Prior to Dassault, Mr. Tavarez served as a Vice President for the fourth largest software company in the world, SAP, providing end-to-end solutions for financials, manufacturing, logistics and distribution. Tavarez also served as Vice President for i2 Technologies, helping develop i2's $1B Supply Chain Management business in North America.

Sentient Science announced today the release of DigitalClone Live 2.0. The software is a computational tool and condition-based monitoring service that helps companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components in design, testing, procurements and service.

Sentient Science announced today that Joshua Kunkel has joined the company as Director of Energy Services. Mr. Kunkel brings 10 years of energy and energy finance experience to Sentient Science, most recently with AWS Truepower, a global leader in wind and solar engineering and consulting. At AWS Truepower, Mr. Kunkel led the global Due Diligence Services team, his team assisted investors and lenders assessing the technical suitability and risk of renewable energy projects. His team assisted on transactions ranging from $50M single asset loans to $1B+ portfolio acquisitions.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) presented Sentient Science with the honorable Tibbetts award for the role Sentient Science plays in research and development for the Government and for success in driving innovation into the industrial and energy marketplace. Sentient follows in the footsteps of past winners including Qualcomm, Symantec and iROBOT Corporation.

Sentient Science announced today that Mr. James O’Leary has joined the company as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. O’Leary is the former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kaydon Corporation, Inc. After the sale of Kaydon to SKF, the world’s largest bearing company, Mr. O’Leary joins Sentient with nearly thirty years of strategic managerial experience and leadership in major multinational industrial businesses. While at Kaydon, the company established leadership positions in several key end markets relevant to Sentient, notably wind energy, military rotorcraft and ground vehicles. Mr. O’Leary has a broad and diverse background, with deep experience in operations, finance, capital rising and corporate development.

Today, Sentient Science announced they were awarded a contract with the Air Force (FA8650-14-M-2499) to develop an add on to their DigitalClone® family of software tools that computationally predict the final stages of material, component, and system life for small and long crack effects for both fixed wing and rotorcraft vehicles.

Today, Sentient Science announced they have reached a computational milestone in predicting the remaining use life of wind turbine gearboxes and other rotating mechanical components throughout North America. In the past six months Sentient has run 1,500,000 gearbox component and system computational tests on the University at Buffalo’s Center for Computational Research High Performance Computing Cluster. This infrastructure has allowed Sentient to scale their life extension solutions for wind turbine owners and other industrial systems. This is a significant number of computational tests, compared to traditional methods for O&M planning, including conditional-based maintenance and physical testing of critical components.

Sentient Science today announced that they have implemented a new webinar series for the 2014 year.

Today, Sentient Science announced that thirteen new commercial and government customers chose DigitalClone™ to predict and extend the life of their mechanical equipment across the Industrial Internet. John Deere, BP, Sikorsky Aircraft, Energy Northwest, Boeing, Minnesota Power, Westar, Penoles, the National Science Foundation, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force and Moog signed new contracts to use DigitalClone prognostics to extend their product life in design, testing, and field operations.