News Release

June 23, 2008

Innovative Analytics & Training Taps Richard J. Raftery as Executive Vice President

WASHINGTON – Innovative Analytics & Training LLC (Innovative Analytics), a privately-held company that specializes in expert and technical data sources and employs advanced methods to assist organizations in analysis, research, training and new media support appointed seasoned executive Richard J. (Rick) Raftery as executive vice president.  Raftery will oversee all client services, new service offering development and business growth.

“Rick brings to the table over 30 years of broad knowledge and expertise in intelligence, operations, planning, training and analysis from the national to tactical level,” said Kevin O’Connell, president and CEO of Innovative Analytics & Training.  “His life-long experience in this community remains invaluable.” 

Before joining Innovative Analytics, Raftery held a number of senior industry positions.  He was most recently vice president for operations for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).  Previously, he spent six years with SRA International Inc. as senior principal and the director of Defense and Space Intelligence Programs where he was responsible for business development, employee relations and financial management.

In addition to holding leadership roles supporting the White House and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he provided guidance and advice on matters related to national and defense intelligence policy, plans and programs, as well as law enforcement intelligence, where he assisted in the integration of federal, state and local law enforcement requirements into the national intelligence apparatus.  A retired U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer, he has extensive experience supporting contingency and combat operations with high quality intelligence analysis and policy development. 

Innovative Analytics & Training LLC (Innovative Analytics), a privately-held company in Washington, D.C., focuses on improving analysis and decision-making for government and commercial clients.  Innovative Analytics is “the sources and methods company,” and draws upon analytic methods and techniques that range from critical thinking to global expert networks and advanced analytic applications. They help organizations understand the complexity and data dependencies of their decisions, offer new approaches to using existing information and gather new information to bound the uncertainty within a decision space. For more information on Innovative Analytics, visit www.innovative-analytics.com/news.php.

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