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Outgoing Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers shares his parting thoughts and hopes for the Applied Optics community in the coming year.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers reports on some key indicators of Applied Optics' success.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers summarizes the current state of Applied Optics and its plans for 2020.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers announces changes to the Engineering and Laboratory Notes section of Applied Optics.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers reports on some key indicators of Applied Optics' success.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers shares a recent adventure, encourages readers to experience the upcoming total solar eclipse in the U.S., and announces that he has accepted a faculty position.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers discusses common ways that articles can include plagiarism and how to avoid them.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers cautions authors to avoid using trademarked or copyrighted content in a journal publication.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers reflects on another successful year for Applied Optics and discusses the journal's efforts to publish institutional feature issues.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers shares his thoughts on gender balance in engineering and physics.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers provides insight into how to position yourself for a successful career while still in graduate school.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers describes the responsibilities of an Applied Optics topical editor, the traits of a good editorial candidate, and the career benefits of serving on the editorial board.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers explains the standards that must be met by a simulation paper in order to be peer reviewed for publication in Applied Optics.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers details the Applied Optics policy of not considering papers that have been rejected twice by OSA journals.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers provides suggestions on how to become a successful program manager or principal investigator.

Applied Optics Editor Ron Driggers explains the new policy for considering expanded conference papers in OSA journals.

Editor-in-Chief Ron Driggers pays tribute to colleague and friend, Timothy Edwards.

Passive millimeter wave (pmmW) imagers are quickly becoming practical sensor candidates for military and nonmilitary tasks. Our focus was to adapt the Night Vision [U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command, Communications and Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center, Night Vision and Electronics Sensors Directorate (NVESD)] passive thermal infrared imager performance models and apply them to pmmW imaging systems for prediction of field performance for the task of small watercraft and boat identification. The Night Vision Lab's infrared sensor model has been evolving since the 1950s, with the most current model being NVThermIP [Night Vision Thermal and Image Processing (NVThermIP) Model Users Manual, Rev. 9 (U.S. Army RDECON, CERDEC, NVESD, 2006)]. It has wide recognition as an engineering tool for sensor evaluation. This effort included collecting pmmW signatures for a representative set of targets, conducting an observer perception experiment, and deriving the task difficulty criteria that can be used in NVThermIP for identification of boats. The task difficulty criteria are used by designers and managers to create systems capable of meeting specific performance criteria in the field.