2025 Year-end Review: Federal
A year-end review, organized by major themes as well as recaps of monthly federal activity over the course of 2025.
A year-end review, organized by major themes as well as recaps of monthly federal activity over the course of 2025.
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.
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, ...
Cryptocurrency has crossed a strategic threshold: what began as a speculative financial innovation has accelerated into a contested/persistent system shaping cybercrime, sanctions evasion, statecraft, financial enforcement, and global monetary competition.
This compilation brings together videos and session summaries from OODAcon 2025, pairing concise takeaways with visual capture of the ideas that define the next phase of technological acceleration.
Energy has become the limiting factor for technological acceleration: no longer a background constraint. Energy is rapidly becoming the primary strategic asset shaping AI, national security, industrial competitiveness, and geopolitical alignment.
India has officially released a comprehensive national strategy, “Transforming India Into a Leading Quantum-Powered Economy: Vision 2035”, that aims to make the country one of the top three global quantum powers by 2035.
A new wave of U.S./U.K. sanctions and a global joint advisory on operational technology (OT) risks underscore a rapidly escalating campaign by pro-Russia hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure worldwide.
OODA Network Member Bill Vass (Booz Allen Chief Technology Officer) and Booz Allen SVP Munjeet Singh showed how physical AI, digital proving grounds, and agentic autonomy are converging to reshape real-world robotics, test ranges, and ...
At OODAcon 2025, former CIA Directorate of Science and Technology chief Dawn Meyerriecks delivered a blunt warning: America’s strategic advantage will not come from scale, but from adaptability - and the nation is losing ...