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Accelerating Disruptive Technologies: October 29, 2025 | Reston, VA
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Accelerating Disruptive Technologies: October 29, 2025 | Reston, VA
This year's OODAcon theme is Accelerating Disruptive Technologies, recognizing that the pace of technological advancement demands new frameworks for assessing, adopting and scaling innovation.
Outpacing fast-moving adversaries requires procurement built for speed. Across the U.S. national‑security enterprise, acquisition has been reframed as a strategic capability—compressing timelines from prototype to fielded capability.
The OODAcon 2025 panel “From Automation to Autonomy: Navigating the Next Wave of AI Agents,” led by experts Josh Devon, Thomas Quinn, David Ginn, Josh Ray, and Andy Black, will confront a defining question for ...
According to Bill Hagestad at RedDragon1949, China is rapidly transitioning from legacy informationized warfare to intelligentized, AI-driven, cognitive warfare — reshaping the future of strategic competition.
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 ...
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