In a world where adversaries move at machine speed, Jennifer Ewbank’s OODAcon 2025 session delivered a blunt warning: acceleration is now a strategic imperative. Find archived video of the presentation and a summary analysis here. ...
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AI’s diffusion is now inseparable from its compute infrastructure. 2025 marks the year when nations and hyperscalers began measuring, monetizing, and governing “AI compute” as a strategic asset, linking sovereign cloud capacity, public-private infrastructure build-outs, ...
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At OODAcon 2025, hardware transparency took center stage as Allan Friedman introduced the Hardware Bill of Materials (HBOM) as the next critical pillar of national resilience. The archived video and an expanded summary of ...
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Quantum is no longer a distant promise - it is becoming a participatory practice. In a conversation at OODAcon 2025, Bob Gourley and Mark Carney showed how DEFCON’s Quantum Village is redefining quantum readiness. ...
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We kick off our annual series of expanded session summaries (including video) from OODAcon 2025 where the conference day began - on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 - with the keynote presentation from Matt Devost, CEO ...
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Researchers at Harvard and MIT have achieved a breakthrough in continuous quantum computing, operating a 3,000-qubit neutral-atom system for over two hours without loss of coherence — a feat that marks the transition from pulsed, ...
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how U.S. capital and derivatives markets operate — from trading algorithms and risk models to regulatory surveillance — raising new systemic, cybersecurity, and accountability challenges that Congress and regulators must ...
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Alphabet recently released the details of X Development's Project Suncatcher - an audacious vision for scaling artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure into orbit by coupling solar-powered satellites equipped with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and free-space optical ...
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Consistent with the substance, tone and tenor of presentations at OODAcon 2025 last week, Secretary Hegseth earlier today announced a major acquisition reform effort designed to put rapid acquisition of technology at the center of ...
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China and the United States are locked in a technological race to define the future of warfare through Physical AI—the fusion of artificial intelligence and computer graphics simulations with real-world, sensor-rich environments.
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