Counterterrorism (CT) organizations must navigate complexity across environments, often with incomplete information and competing priorities. it is essential to embrace a strategy‑driven approach that proactively shapes the operating environment to stay ahead of...
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Advanced Small Modular Reactors: Cybersecurity and Operational Resilience
Advanced and Small Modular Reactors (A/SMRs) are critical to meeting the world’s surging energy demands. While headlines often focus on data centers driving nuclear energy demand, these compact...
Strategic Recommendations for a Unified Critical Materials National Strategy | Part 5
Building a unified national strategy means getting federal, state, industry, community, and international partners aligned around a central goal: reducing U.S. vulnerability to critical material supply disruptions. This requires coordinating actions across production,...
Critical Minerals Supply Chains: Close the Processing Gap, Score Risk Better, and Prioritize What Matters | Part 4
Throughout this series, we’ve explored how the United States can sharpen its strategic approach to critical minerals. In this post we will shift our focus to three areas where the U.S. can turn analysis into action: processing capacity, risk scoring, and...
Critical Minerals Supply Chains: Campaigning vs. Declaring | Part 3
Adversaries are running coordinated campaigns to control critical mineral supply chains, while the US is still talking about action instead of taking it. China and Russia are executing synchronized, long-term strategies to control access,...
Rare Earth Supply Chains: A Mission-Critical Risk | Part 2
Rare earth magnets are essential components in systems like the F‑35, wind turbines, drones, and missiles. The U.S. Department of War (DoW) recently invested in U.S. companies to expand domestic magnet manufacturing and heavy rare earth processing, an investment that...
Critical Minerals and National Security: Time for a Smarter Framework | Part 1
First in a series examining how the United States manages- and could better manage- its critical minerals strategy The US sits at a strategic inflection point with critical materials. A subset of these critical materials are critical minerals, needed...
Ellen: Turning Materials Intelligence Into Decisions
National security rests on secure, reliable access to the materials that build our platforms, weapons, and infrastructure. The National Security Strategy makes that plain. The harder truth is that the intelligence needed to protect that access sits scattered across...
Nuclear Reactors: Innovation meets Resilience
The conversation around Advanced and Small Modular Reactors (A/SMRs) is accelerating for good reason. Governments, utilities, national laboratories, and private industry are all investing in next-generation nuclear technologies that promise cleaner energy, greater...
Tier Tech International, Inc. Achieves Official CMMC Level 2 Certification
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tier Tech International, Inc. Achieves Official CMMC Level 2 Certification Delray Beach, FL — June 8, 2026 — Tier Tech International, Inc. (“TTI”) is proud to announce that it has officially achieved the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...









