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Emily CoBabe-Ammann announced her planned retirement as Research & Innovation Office Senior Advisor and Executive Associate Director (Acting), Center for National Security Initiatives, effective January 1, 2025.

Dr. Merritt Turetsky, NSI Faculty Director for Arctic Security, was named Volunteer of the Month by the American Geophysical Union for her work as a volunteer science advisor to Eos science news magazine.

Dr. Furlich participated in an exercise to detect and track Space X Starship IFT 4. Dr. Furlich continues his work for unclassified launch detection using weather satellites for the SDA TAP Lab Project Apollo Cohort 3. Dr. Furlich demonstrated an

²ÊÃñ±¦µä defense expert and Center for National Security Initiatives Director Iain Boyd discusses why nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones.