Skimming through the paper ( http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... ), I don't know that the mass spectrometry they did really required a military-academia connection, as the article seems to imply. While the machines certainly aren't everywhere, I would imagine that there are quite a few in the hands of researchers who aren't paid by the DoD.
