Resilient Cognitive Solutions Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

Resilient Cognitive Solutions (RCS), the leading innovator of Decision Support Systems, celebrated its sixth anniversary this month. The small technology start-up based out of Pittsburgh, Pa. has been growing steadily since its inception six years ago as the need for Situational Awareness increases with the advent of Big Data.

RCS, a member of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, opened its doors in April of 2007 and has grown steadily, doubling its engineering staff made up of Cognitive Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and Graphic Designers. In addition, RCS has offered paid internships for students in related disciplines during the summer months, serving as a catalyst for their continued professional development. Two interns have gone on to accept full-time positions with RCS. To support their growth, an addition to the building is nearing completion.

In its first six years, RCS has developed and fielded over 40 Advanced Decision Support applications to government, commercial, and academic customers. RCS has expanded its offerings from the core capabilities — Cognitive Systems Engineering, Decision-Centered Design, and Advanced Software Development — to include Innovation Facilitation, Usability Testing and Improvement, Technical Communications, and Decision-Centered Testing, making RCS one of the few full service, turnkey providers of Cognitive Systems Engineering services.

RCS, which boasts one of the earliest practitioners of Cognitive Systems Engineering as its President, also endeavors to find and retain local talent. More than half of the company’s employees are either Pittsburgh-area natives or attended a Pittsburgh university. The company’s newest employees are recent graduates from Carnegie Mellon University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Leveraging the multi-disciplinary nature of the company’s unique Applied Cognitive Systems Engineering methodology, RCS is able to recruit students and professionals from various academic backgrounds including psychology, cognitive engineering, decision sciences, human factors, software engineering, graphic design, and systems engineering among others.

About Resilient Cognitive Solutions

Resilient Cognitive Solutions (RCS), the premier innovator of Decision Centered Solutions, applies the science of decision-making to deliver informative, compelling, and intuitive decision support systems. RCS specializes in applying Cognitive Systems Engineering to the design and delivery of revolutionary, high performance decision support systems for the most challenging mission critical and business critical problems.  For more information, contact William Elm at [email protected].

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