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The hardware supply chain is a clear front in the global competition to control (or at least heavily influence) the global IT supply chain — and Hardware Bills of Materials (HBOMs) are emerging as the ...
The global race to expand AI compute is pushing data centers underwater, into orbit, and adjacent to new energy sources — reshaping critical infrastructure and geopolitical risk.
This summer at DEFCON 33, DARPA’s 2025 AI Cyber Challenge showcased how generative and agentic AI can autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities in complex software systems.
A new body of reports reveals how Beijing’s state-backed networks are embedding control across semiconductors, software, and infrastructure, transforming commercial interdependence into strategic dominance.
The global race to secure rare earths has moved beneath the waves. Undersea nodule mining near Palau and along the U.S. coastline could become a strategic counterweight to China’s control over critical minerals—if environmental and ...
This integrated assessment explores how geoeconomic transformations are unfolding across the Americas, the Northern Frontier of Mexico, the Arctic, and Africa, drawing from recent OODA Loop analyses.
How Statecraft, Finance, and Technology Are Reshaping Global Power in the Era of Polycrisis.
The upcoming OODAcon 2025 session “Securing Internet First Principles; Access, Privacy, and Expression in the Age of Disruptive Technology”—a fireside chat with SnowStorm CEO Serene—arrives at a critical inflection point for global digital governance.
For over half a century, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) served as the Pentagon’s internal think tank for long-term competition, strategic foresight, and technological offset. Its founder, Andrew W. Marshall, known as “Yoda,” designed ...
The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) 22025 report, mandated by Congress and delivered to the White House and DoD, calls for urgent modernization of U.S. bio-innovation governance to counter China’s accelerating state-driven biotech ...
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