SOLE is pleased to announce that on 23 March 2018 Major Thomas S. Bihansky was awarded SOLE’s Jerome G. Peppers, Jr., CPL Prize Paper Award for his paper “Resilient Aircraft Maintenance Constructs: Enhancing Repair Network Designs to Effectively Manage Risks and Supply Chain Disruptions.”  Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for his MS in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Maj Bihansky’s research aims to extend the understanding of supply chain resiliency by employing a simulation model of a USAF aircraft engine repair network to evaluate the degree of resiliency built into the system.  His study compares the recovery time of the disrupted existing system to one of a fully-integrated repair network, with the objective being the quantification of resiliency in the existing network’s design and gauging the effectiveness of various strategies in reducing recovery time. Maj Bihansky’s thesis has been cleared for open distribution: anyone interested in a copy can request an electronic copy from either the SOLEtter editor (chapter3403@gmail.com) or SOLE HQ (solehq@erols.com).