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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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