Guest speakers from The Quantum Village (Mark Carney and Victoria Kumaran) made clear that 2026 is no longer about learning what quantum is, but about preparing institutions to operate in a quantum-aware and quantum-ready world.
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The U.S. capture of Venezuela’s illegitimate, de facto president in a surprise joint law enforcement and military operation marks a decisive break from decades of Western Hemisphere restraint.
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In 2025, geopolitical risk and technology ceased to be parallel domains. They fused into a single acceleration dynamic - compressing decision timelines and raising the cost of strategic hesitation.
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Across 2025, cybersecurity evolved from a domain of incident response into a core arena of geopolitical competition, AI acceleration, and systemic risk.
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A year-end review, organized by major themes as well as recaps of monthly federal activity over the course of 2025.
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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.
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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, ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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