As the earliest large-scale adopter of AI, healthcare demonstrated the promise and peril of accelerated innovation—revealing where algorithmic tools deliver breakthroughs and where they generate unacceptable risk.
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This year-end collection of analyses provides a structured observe and orient foundation for leaders preparing for 2026 - highlighting where momentum built, where friction emerged, and where decisive action will be required next.
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In 2025, the OODA Network Monthly Meetings captured a decisive shift from awareness to action as accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space, and quantum technologies collided with heightened geopolitical volatility.
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Guest speakers from The Quantum Village (Mark Carney and Victoria Kumaran) made clear that 2026 is no longer about learning what quantum is, but about preparing institutions to operate in a quantum-aware and quantum-ready world.
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The U.S. capture of Venezuela’s illegitimate, de facto president in a surprise joint law enforcement and military operation marks a decisive break from decades of Western Hemisphere restraint.
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In 2025, geopolitical risk and technology ceased to be parallel domains. They fused into a single acceleration dynamic - compressing decision timelines and raising the cost of strategic hesitation.
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Across 2025, cybersecurity evolved from a domain of incident response into a core arena of geopolitical competition, AI acceleration, and systemic risk.
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A year-end review, organized by major themes as well as recaps of monthly federal activity over the course of 2025.
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In her most recent essay for Foreign Affairs, the former CISA Director argues that insecure code and poor design drive persistent vulnerabilities, and that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the only realistic path to systemic resilience.
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MissionLink has announced the graduates of its 2025 Cohort, spotlighting a group of dual-use technology companies positioned at the intersection of innovation and national security. Spanning AI, cyber defense, data intelligence, space, and emerging technologies, ...
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