Critical Conversations in SOF: We Know Sleep Matters. Now What?

New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) are poised to transform preclinical research and toxicology. Right now there are three interconnected barriers to in vitro NAMs adoption. Moving NAMs into the mainstream will require approaches that tackle all three together.

The United States is racing to secure the critical minerals that power modern life. While much of the focus has been on opening new mines or securing supplies overseas, one of America’s most accessible domestic resources has been hiding in plain sight.

New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) have demonstrated tremendous promise but there are still structural barriers standing in the way of widespread NAMs adoption. Here how to understand those gaps in promise vs. practice.

There is no more difficult conversation in this work than the one that follows suicide. It not about a single loss. It is about ripple effects that extend across families, teams, and communities. It changes families. It stays with teammates. It challenges leaders. And it leaves questions that do not resolve quickly or cleanly.

For years, when we talked about military families within the Special Operations community, the narrative centered on grit. Resilience. Quiet sacrifice. And if this were simply about any one of those, or even all of them together, we would be fine. But it is not.