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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

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9% of the World’s Cryptocurrency Computing Power is in Texas; Crypto Miners Power Down During Heat Wave

This post is a really interesting convergence of a few OODA Loop research vectors: crypto miners, drought/heat wave conditions, energy policy, risk awareness, and decision-making. To start, the reason Texas ends up in the national headlines (and is tracked as a bellwether during this now consecutive, seemingly now annual record-breaking mid-summer heat waves) is that…
Time to Separate CYBERCOM Or Get Off the Pot

Recently, the U.S. Senate put forth a bill that would require annual briefings on the relationship between CYBERCOM and the NSA, with concerns being expressed how a dual-hatted leadership impacts either organization. These annual reports would presumably cover important areas such as the division and sharing of resources, how operational risk is being managed, assessments…
Deep Tech, the “Valley of Death” and Innovative Technologies for the Warfighter

National Defense Magazine contextualizes the “Valley of Death” in the following manner: “The defense technology community spends a lot of time grumbling about the “Valley of Death,” a term referring to the place where innovative technologies funded by the Defense Department fail to make it into warfighters’ hands because they can’t make the transition from…
The July 2022 OODA Network Member Meeting: Topics included Flagship Cybersecurity Events in August, Geopolitical Uncertainties and Nuclear Energy Futures

To help members optimize opportunities and reduce risk, OODA hosts a monthly video call to discuss items of common interest to our membership. These highly collaborative sessions are always a great way for our members to meet and interact with each other while talking about topics like global risks, emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and current or…
Speculative Design: A Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel

The Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel is the intersection of Speculative Design, “a design practice that is concerned with future design proposals of a critical nature” and the conclusion amongst foresight strategists and subject matter experts in many scientific disciplines and public policy arenas that nuclear power is central to an “all-of-the-above” portfolio for the future of…
CHIPS Plus Act Passes Senate Procedural Vote on Way to Final $52 Billion Semiconductor Industry Subsidy

At 10:24 p.m. last night, Natalie Andrews from the WSJ filed this update on the unexpected vote yesterday on the CHIPS Act and the FABS Act: “A bipartisan bill subsidizing domestic semiconductor production cleared its first procedural hurdle on Tuesday in a 64-34 vote, even as the details of the legislation were still being worked out.…
Is There Too Much Focus on Disinformation?

Recently, the United Nations (UN) Security Council stated that there needed to be more done to counter misinformation and disinformation concerning the UN’s 12 global peacekeeping operations, which have received an increase of attacks on social media channels. Approved by all council members, the statement emphasizes that strategic communications needed to be improved in order…
The CHIPS Act up for Unexpected Vote to Approve $62 Billion Semiconductor Industry Subsidy

The U.S. Senate has fast-tracked a vote to bring to the Senate floor deliberation and final approval of the $62B in subsidies for the already Senate-approved bill known as the CHIPS Act. The separate vote today on the CHIPS act appropriations will also include a vote on the Fabs Act.
Safety Performance Will Drive the Future of Self-Driving Cars

Safety performance will be the determinant factor in not only the long-term viability of automated driving system (ADS) vehicles but the short-term perception and branding of the “Future of Mobility” to the general public. The actual promise of the future of mobility is as diverse as e-bikes, e-scooters, robotaxis, Mobility as a Service (MaaS), supersonic…
What Exactly is the PRC up to in the Artic?

Climate change and climate-induced emergencies and crises are also creating newly contested, geopolitical arenas. In February 2021, OODA CTO Bob Gourley reported on the “Blueprint for a Blue Ocean”: In January 2021, the Department of Navy released their Strategic Blueprint for a Blue Arctic. The document outlines their plan to prepare for an increasingly available and…

OODAcasts

Authors

Simon Clark on Investigating the Key Man and a Billion Dollar Fraud

February 11, 2022

In this OODAcast, we talk with Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist Simon Clark about his book the “The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale “. The book tells the story of Arif Naqvi and his Dubai-based private-equity firm Abraaj and attracted he billions of dollars…
Cyber, Intelligence

Charity Wright on China’s Digital Colonialism

January 28, 2022

Charity Wright is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst with over 15 years of experience at the US Army and the National Security Agency, where she translated Mandarin Chinese. Charity now specializes in dark web cyber threat intelligence, counter-disinformation, and strategic intelligence at Recorded Future. Her analysis has provided deep insights into a variety of incidents,…
Authors

Jan Chipchase on Field Research for Actionable Insights

January 21, 2022

Jan Chipchase is the founder and director of Studio D Radiodurans, a research, design and innovation consultancy. He specializes in identifying nuanced patterns of human behavior. The insight it generates informs and inspires design, strategy, brand and public policy. Jan describes his work in design anthropology in terms of a satellite launched into space that…
Tech

Ben Dubow on Detecting and Countering Malign Influence Operations

January 7, 2022

Ben Dubow is CTO and founder of Omelas, a firm that provides data and analysis on how nations manipulate the web to achieve their geopolitical goals. He has a background in research on Russian and Chinese online information operations and is a recognized expert, having appeared on international media including Reuters, Bloomberg and Roll Call.…
Tech

Jahon Jamali On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Coming Metaverse

December 3, 2021

Jahon Jamali is a leading expert on emerging technologies, global risk management and international relations. He began his career as a U.S. Intelligence Officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency. He also has extensive experience in the high tech community creating and growing startups through to successful exits. All this makes him an even more credible…
Tech

Maury Rogow: Every Corporation Will Have A Metaverse Strategy

November 12, 2021

Maury Rogow builds a solid case that your brand will live or die based on the story you tell in the metaverse. Maury is a pioneer in applying the art of storytelling to convey the value of technology in the Internet age. He built a successful approach to storytelling that made direct contributions to the…
Tech

Alan Cohen of DCVC on Investing in Deep Tech For Humanity

October 22, 2021

Alan Cohen is a partner at DCVC, a highly regarded venture capital firm who pioneered the concept of investing in Deep Tech. He has helped lead and grow some of the most influential enterprise IT companies in the world. We talk tech with Alan, and he is the perfect guy to examine some of the…
Intelligence

Digital Self Sovereignty and Avoiding the Long Night with John Robb

October 7, 2021

John is one of the most disruptive thinkers of our time and is capable of drilling down on critical issues like security, society, and technology with deep authority and insights. In this conversation we cover a lot of topics, including John’s concept of OODA Shear, data and digital self sovereignty, Afghanistan, AI, Bitcoin, and the…
Intelligence

Inman’s Rules: The Enduring Principles of Operational Intelligence

September 24, 2021

Admiral Bobby Ray Inman retired from the US Navy in 1982. But his influence endures. His principles, which he codified into a list still exchanged among intelligence community leaders today, is now known as Inman’s Rules. In this OODAcast interview of Admiral Inman we review these rules, seeking insights into how they can be applied to…
Cyber, Intelligence

The Man Who Protects Our Secrets: Bob Bigman on Mitigating Enterprise Risks

September 10, 2021

Bob Bigman spent a career in the intelligence community. He was the CISO of the CIA where he was tasked with leading efforts to protect the nation’s most sensitive secrets. Since 2012 he has provided direct consulting services to CISOs, CIOs, CTOs and CEOs seeking to reduce risk and improve security programs. Through it all…