will stop their partisan bickering and work more closely together in 2014.

Of course, the big news this year was the split up of SAIC into two separate companies. It is something I did not favor, but now that it is done, I wish both companies and their employees all the best.

In February, my wife Betty was selected by the San Diego chapter of the American Heart Association to be recognized among their Legendary Women of the Heart.

In March, the FED’s new film about employee ownership We the Owners went into wide release, with screenings for a number of universities and business groups in the US and Europe. The film has been received very well by the public, business schools, and the employee ownership community. It has earned endorsementsfrom a variety of organizations including the MIT Sloan School of Management and the National Center for Employee Ownership, and has received awards and selections by numerous film festivals.

In April, SAIC’s new CEO Tony Moraco stopped by my home for a visit, and he left me feeling good about the company’s leadership and future. I was saddened that month by the passing of my good friend Ed Frieman, who served as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.

In May, Katherine Sebeck was named as a 2013-2014 fellow for the J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellows Program at the University of Michigan, and in June my daughter Mary Ann attended the opening of a time capsule