[en] During the first year of our renewed research program significant progress has been made on the following research problems: in computing both elastic and inelastic pion-nucleon scattering phase shifts in the (1,1) and (3,3) channels within our pionic nontopological soliton model; in developing a new method for computing quantum soliton states and energies for all momenta in relativistic quantum field theory; and in applying the subsidiary condition theorem to soliton quantization in relativistic quantum field theory. These topics are discussed in this paper