We track the rapidly changing world of technology with a focus on what leaders need to know to improve decision-making. Gain insights into the future of tech in a way that enables optimized action.

We expect IT spending to pick up in 2025 through 2026. Much of this will be centered on GPU buys.

Expect headlines on the continuing shift away from PRC dominance in IT manufacturing. 

The rapidly advancing pace of technology is reflected in the dramatically changing capabilities available in the marketplace today. This is changing the competitive landscape, changing the potential capabilities of your internal architecture, and changing the expectations of your potential clients/customers. In this age of dramatic advancements all should ensure appropriate measures are being put in place to understanding these potential market disruptions and changes to the competitive landscape. The best way to model out potential future disruptions is to examine drivers of tech, which should include assessments of future user/customer demands.

Although still early in the S-Curve, the growing capabilities of automation, including those provided by Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Robotic Process Automation, are providing positive business benefits and shifting how organizations operate. These efficiencies are needed now more than ever and this will likely accelerate their growth. 

New sensors, including new sensors leveraging quantum effects, are changing healthcare and the national security sector and will soon become more widespread and impact wider swaths of the economy. 

The benefits of advanced WiFi and Cellular communications and space based communications will improve the ability of organizations to disperse and further support distributed workforces. WiFI and Cellular advancements in particular are also enabling direct device to device communications in ways that will help optimize deployed robotics and advanced manufacturing.

The applications and compute foundation which has enabled knowledge workers to work from anywhere is now an important component of the nation’s infrastructure with impacts discussed further below. 

This page captures some of our most impactful research and reporting on disruptive and exponential technologies. For additional context also see latest OODA research reports on Cybersecurity Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Space Technologies, Quantum Technologies, Global Supply Chain, Federal Tech Needs.

Artificial Intelligence:

Using AI for Competitive Advantage in Business

OODA principles and analysts have years of real world practitioner experience in fielding AI capabilities including the foundational infrastructure required for successful AI. We capture lessons learned and best practices in our C-Suite guide to AI for competitive advantage. Explore Using AI for Competitive Advantage

Robotics and Automation

The Future of Automation In All Its Forms

Automation, as a subject for OODA Loop research and analysis, cuts a broad swath across many industry verticals.  As we attempt to further scope our coverage, specific areas of interest have emerged that we thought would be of interest to the OODA Loop membership: Security Automation; Automation and the Workforce; Automation – or Augmentation – of the workforce; Autonomous Vehicles as Automation; Automation of AI/Machine Learning Training Models; Automation Case Studies; and Industry Standardization. Please reach out to us if there are any industry sectors, government agencies, robotics sub-disciplines, or robotics subsectors you would like us to explore in our research and analysis. 

Quantum Computing and Quantum Security

Quantum Computing and Quantum Security Sensemaking

This page serves as a dynamic resource for OODA Network members looking for Quantum Computing, Quantum Security and Quantum Sensing insights to drive their decision-making process.

Blockchain Technologies

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cryptocurrencies

OODA Loop began reporting on Bitcoin just two years after Bitcoin’s Genesis block was mined with a summary of a Wired Magazine article discussing a new (at the time) type of malware that took over computers to mine Bitcoin. At the time, the price of Bitcoin had been rocketing to new highs and was just passing $9.50, on the way to $15.00 before crashing back down to end the year at $3.00 per coin. Since then millions of people and many businesses and even governments have recognized the powerful intrinsic value of a widely accepted, mathematically provable way to provide a distributed ledger that proves no coin can be spent twice. This method of mitigating the double spend problem, coupled with an approach that provides transparency and confirmation of transactions, kicked off a revolution that has generated a $1.6T market cap worth of cryptocurrencies. All indications are that this revolution has just begun. Flowing from the initial features of Bitcoin, a new blockchain and an ability to program a distributed ledger to enable smart contracts was created in Ethereum, kicking off another new wave of innovation. Our tracking of these developments focuses on the insights needed by operational decision-makers regardless of business sector of government, since these trends will be impacting all of us eventually.

What CEOs Need To Know About Bitcoin: Including potential new business models to consider

Bitcoin is the most famous crypto currency, with good reason. It was the first to leverage the new concept of a blockchain to enable a distributed, but trusted ledger, which for the first time in history allowed a cryptocurrency where double spending was impossible. Since its founding on 3 January 2009 the system has worked and proven it can scale with extreme accuracy. But what might this new store of value and distributed means of safe and secure transactions mean for your business? The models listed here can fuel your decision-making in that domain.