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Logistics left of boom: Understanding adversary threats to the defense industrial base ahead of conflict
Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Affairs, co-authored this opinion piece that noted a prominent 2023 wargame found that in a defense of Taiwan, the U.S. would likely exhaust its inventory of critical long-range precision ....
February 6, 2026
PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish are dropping, study finds
Sarah Balgooyen, liquid chromatography mass spectrometry manager, discusses her study that concluded PFAS levels peaked between 2007 and 2017 in all five of the Great Lakes.
February 6, 2026
America’s rare-earths solution is hiding in plain sight
This guest essay cites a Science article by Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, that concluded the U.S. could meet most of its critical minerals and rare earths needs by reprocessing mine waste streams.
February 6, 2026