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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

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Speculative Design: U.S. Army Experimental CubeSats (Miniaturized Satellites)

This case study is a lot more “experimental/operational” than previous posts in our ongoing Speculative Design series – with the full resources of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) “in the midst of evaluating the results of experimental satellite tech designed to directly warn soldiers on the ground when GPS signals have been…
What The National Academies Believe Regarding The Future of Encryption

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently completed a study at the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence focused on Encryption and the future of encryption given advances in technology. The academies brought together experts for a detailed study aimed at identifying potential scenarios of critical interest.
“The Era of the Global Internet is Over” According to CFR Task Force Report

Nate Fick, who was confirmed last week to lead the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, was also the co-chair (along with Jami Miscik of Global Strategic Insights) of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force on Cybersecurity. In May, the CFR Task Force delivered their final report, “Confronting Reality in…
Nate Fick Confirmed to Lead State Department Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy

In April, The State Department launched a new cybersecurity bureau, designed to enhance digital diplomacy and online standards around the world. Last week, the Senate confirmed Nate Fick as the first person to lead the new Bureau as the first State Department Ambassador-at-Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Fick is familiar to the OODA Loop…
Signals from Mainstream Information Outlets on Digital Self-Sovereignty, Digital Rights and Digital Identity

We continue our research on Digital Self-Sovereignty, Digital Rights, and Digital Identity, which is an area of research concerned with the security of personal data, transactional or otherwise, and the individual’s right to ownership of their personal data. In the last few months, a signal-to-noise ratio has emerged on this topic, where previously there was…
A Proactive National Technology Strategy in the Great Power Competition with China

The co-authors of a recent article in Foreign Affairs, America Could Lose the Tech Contest With China, Eric Schmidt and Yll Bajraktari, are Chair and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), respectively. The SCSP “builds on the work of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), which ended its congressionally-mandated work in October…
The Stanford Internet Observatory and Covert Influence Operations

With the technological infrastructure that physicists and astronomers have brought to bear for decades as its foundational metaphor, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) was launched two years ago to create an equally as powerful social sciences-based “Observatory” for internet researchers. We analyze the SIO’s latest offering, in partnership with Graphika: the August 24th release of…
Opportunities for Advantage: Reshoring Manufacturing and Shortening Supply Chains

Future Typhoons. Future Covid-19 Lockdowns. Future Pandemics. Future Climate Crises Impacts. Future Wars. All of it adds up to a clear incentive structure for American businesses to reshore manufacturing and shorten supply chains.
Global Crypto and Digital Currency Initiatives: Pakistan

We continue with our survey of crypto and digital currency initiatives from around the globe, all of which are officially sanctioned to enhance national competitive advantage (in the event crypto overtakes the US dollar as the global reserve currency). It is the cumulative adoption rate of state-sanctioned crypto and digital currency legalization and regulation that…
Chinese Cyber Espionage Against Russia Is About Keeping Tabs and Learning

Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage is nothing notable as Beijing has been long engaged in the most expansive cyber-enabled data theft operation for the past decade. However, its recent activities targeting Russia’s military industries is rather novel and not widespread. What’s more, this is not the first Chinese APT actor that has brazenly targeted its close…

OODAcasts

Cyber

Operational Cybersecurity Leader Cameron Over

May 5, 2020

Cameron Over leads the Cyber & Privacy service line at CrossCountry Consulting. Cameron has extensive past performance in cybersecurity, including experience advising organizations with transforming their cybersecurity and privacy programs. Cameron has been in the field of information security since the late 90’s. From mid-high school, she was exposed to early network discovery techniques while…
Cyber

Cybersecurity Icon Phil Reitinger, CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance

May 1, 2020

Phil Reitinger has been been a pioneer in cutting edge concepts for reducing risks in cyberspace for years. He was a special assistant US Attorney in the late 1990’s, a time when high end nation state attacks were on the rise and the application of US law to help counter threats was in a nascent…
Serial Entrepreneur Henry Harrison, CTO of Garrison, On Disrupting Adversary Attack Paths

April 29, 2020

In this episode of the OODAcast, Bob discusses the creative process and technology management approaches of Henry Harrison, CTO of Garrison Computing. Henry is a seasoned technology industry executive and serial entrepreneur who has spent the last ten years focused on cyber security both as an independent consultant and as Technical Director for Cyber Security at…
Quantum Security Practitioner Jane Melia of QuintessenceLabs

April 24, 2020

In this OODAcast we dive deep into topics of Quantum Computing, Quantum Security and best practices for ensuring your data remains safe even after quantum computers can break current asymmetric encryption methods. Our guest, Dr. Jane Melia of QuintessenceLabs, is a practitioner who has spent years helping create and bring to market advanced enterprise technologies.…
Tech

Former CIA CTO Bob Flores on Accelerating Technology Disruption

April 22, 2020

OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by former CTO of the CIA Bob Flores in a discussion on the state of enterprise technology, resulting in this next in our series designed to provide actionable insights to leaders in business and government. Bob is a member of the OODA Network and was one of the scheduled…
Cyber

Tony Cole On Deception In Cyber Operations

April 17, 2020

OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by Tony Cole of Attivo Networks in an interactive discussion on the state of cybersecurity, with a focus on how deception technologies can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to mitigate risks. Tony is an icon in the cybersecurity community. He is known both as a practitioner and…
Tech

Lewis Shepherd on Government Mission Needs

April 14, 2020

In this second of a two part OODAcast, OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by Lewis Shepherd, seasoned federal technology executive and a senior director of technology strategy at VMware for an interactive discussion on the actionable lessons we should all be learning from the current crisis but also how the events of today are…
Cyber

David Bray On Today’s Global Risk Environment

April 7, 2020

This is part two of our series with Dr. David Bray of the Atlantic Council’s Geotech Center. This second of two parts covers questions businesses should be asking about today’s global risk environment and approach to knowing what comes next. The session is full of important advice on how to survive and thrive in and…
Authors, Tech

Dan Gerstein of RAND Corporation on The Story of Technology

March 27, 2020

OODA CTO Bob Gourley is joined by technologist and national security expert Dan Gerstein from Rand Corporation. Dan is also the author of the recently released book entitled “The Story of Technology”.