Google Security Engineering and The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (in collaboration with OpenAI) have sorted through the hype - and done some serious thinking and formal …
Two Chinese Supercomputers (with Mystery Hardware Components) Go Online
Conspicuous, controversial and notorious is the Chinese unwillingness to participate in global benchmarking list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. So, the "top 500" list goes out - with …
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Under Fire, CISA’s JCDC Continues Astride with 2024 Priorities
We have been very vocal boosters of CISA, the efforts of CISA leadership, and since its inception, the work of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). And we continue in our support of both …
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The Future of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base: Challenges and Opportunities
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is best in class research and analysis, judged against both public or private sector standards. In a recent report, the CRS broke down the vital questions …
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Are Global Stressors and Bank Failures Considered Strategically Net Positive by Some Market Players?
We take a look at the recently released Federal Reserve Board 2024 bank stress test scenarios, with an eye towards just how sensitive the stress tests are to disruptions and uncertainties created by …
Microsoft and OpenAI Issue a Stark Report and a $10M Bounty from the State Department
Competing cyber capabilities (on a spectrum from nation-state to non-state actors alike) and cyber-based conflict will continue to restructure, reformulate, and transform the very essence of what …
Rice and Fertilizer are the Linchpins of Global Food Insecurity
Recent restrictions on rice exports by India prompt this analysis of the on the ground conditions of global food insecurity, returning to some of the themes we explored in The Future of Food …
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What You Need to Know About the Convergence of Robot Process Automation (RPA) and AI
According to the Robot Report, The International Federation of Robotics recently "noted that the stock of operational robots around the world attained a new record of about 3.9 million units in 2022. …
Will The AI Safety Institute – and the Consortium Model – Insure an AI-safe Future?
Consistent with our recent analysis of government regulation (or overregulation?) of AI, and the introduction of the concept of the "decontrol" of AI, the recent launch of the AI Safety Institute …
The Space Economy in 2024
The near term opportunities and risks of the space economy and Space Force, innovation, and national security were discussed at length at OODAcon 2023. We return here to the two panels from the …