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The concept of integrated seed sector development (ISSD) for sweetpotato was tested in Shinyanga and Meatu districts of the Lake Zone of Tanzania. Agricultural Research Institute (ARI)–Ukiriguru documented the informal system. It comprised male and female vine multipliers with land close to water sources growing sweetpotato during the dry season. They sold vines during the rainy season, with male multipliers and those with larger crops selling more. The average multiplier supplied approximately 50 farmers who commonly travelled 20 km, each buying approximately 1–2 bundles of vine and provided an entry point for disseminating technologies. ARI–Ukiriguru organized demonstrations of rapid multiplication, inorganic and organic fertilizers and new cultivars on multipliers’ land. Fertilizer could economically more than double vine yields with huge potential benefits for an area where production is constrained by planting material; some multipliers immediately began using it. Multipliers took rapid multiplication and new cultivars to their home gardens for further experimentation, seeming likely to adopt especially the cultivar NASPOT 1. A strategy of growing large quantities of irrigated sweetpotato in Misungwi and selling the vines long-distance in Shinyanga, a marketing strategy derived from Uganda, was also adopted. These successes confirm the value of formal-informal seed sector interactions in ISSD.

Over the last few decades the US military has seen a Revolution in Military Affairs in regards to the development of new technologies; specifically space-based assets. The US Army has transitioned from previously used techniques for navigation and communications to a more technology focused technique employing Global Positioning Satellites and the use of satellite communications. China has observed this shift of military affairs from the US and has developed strategies to counter the America's perceived advantage in the space domain. China has developed a robust Anti-Access/Area Denial Capability (A2/AD) that focuses on disrupting or degrading the US Military's reliance on technology; specifically those space-based assets that provide navigation, positioning, and timing, satellite communications, and imagery to name a few. The new concept of Multi-Domain Battle (MDB) and the development of a Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF) will create a relative position of advantage for US forces in all domains against adversaries that threaten these critical space-based capabilities. The research compiled for this monograph comes from sources such as RAND, Strategic Studies Institute, and other authors on the China threat from the A2/AD perspective to overmatch the US Military's advantages in the space domain. This monograph attempts to nest space capabilities within the construct of this new concept. Also highlighted is the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Army Space Training Strategy's recent attempts to provide training to US Army units on degraded space environments during home-station and Combined Training Centers (CTC) training events.