The latest edition of the Power of R&D is now available online. The cover story focuses on USACE’s response to the environmental and ecological threat posed by the Connecticut River Hydrilla, a variant that has proven resistant to traditional mitigation efforts and has become the focus of the USACE R&D community. Other stories include a look at the USACE Paint Technology Center, Technical Center of Expertise and the support it offers USACE projects before, during and even after completion. You can also read about how researchers are deploying new numerical models to project the impacts of a changing climate on critical dune systems and how they are discovering new techniques to quickly determine a levee’s health based on the vegetation growing on it.