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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
The DHS Homeland Security Startup Studio (HSSS) 2024 Cohort Report highlights the program’s success in identifying, accelerating, and delivering commercial applications of advanced technologies from U.S. laboratories and research centers.
The 2024 year-end review of geopolitical risk and technology captures an accelerated, transformative period shaped by escalating global tensions and rapid technological advancements.
2024 was a transformative year for U.S. policy, technology, and security amidst escalating global competition and domestic challenges.
In the 21st century, wars aren’t fought exclusively on battlefields—they’re fought in factories, server farms, and shipping docks.
AGI, broadly understood, refers to an AI system capable of performing intellectual tasks at or beyond human capability. However, experts have differing takes on what this truly entails.
Global organizations face an increasingly complex web of emerging risks with no historical precedent. To tackle this uncertainty, the OECD has unveiled a forward-thinking methodology that leverages strategic foresight and scenario-based modeling to identify, understand, and manage critical risks before they disrupt.
The founder of the cybersecurity research conference ChinaCon, Kristin Del Rosso, led an OODAcon 2024 discussion with security researchers with insights from the latest ChinaCon.
China’s strategy for global dominance has gone digital, embedding itself in the systems we depend on and exploiting vulnerabilities to undermine U.S. national security.
Quantum technologies are showing great potential in computing, networking, and cybersecurity, creating profound opportunities and challenges – while demanding urgent preparation for a quantum-powered future.
The Department of Defense’s 2024 Annual Report to Congress on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China offers a comprehensive analysis of China’s evolving military capabilities, strategy, and its implications for global security
Sebastian Mallaby joined the OODAcast for a discussion about the Power Law in venture capital and the rise of the global hedge fund and private equity industries.
Neil Wiley has lead some of the US Intelligence Community’s most important analytical functions. His career in intelligence began as a Naval Intelligence Officer in an operational intelligence center focused on support to critical operational naval missions. He would later serve joint intelligence missions in Europe, would rise to lead all analytical activities at the…
This OODAcast features a fascinating conversation with Michael Gibson, the author of the book “Paper Belt on Fire” who is also the co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship program and the 1517 Fund, both of which focus on identifying unconventional ideas and individuals that can drive disruptive innovation in technology, arts, and science.
In this OODAcast, we talk with Jimmy Soni, the author of the book “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley”. Jimmy takes a deep, historical look at the founding story of PayPal with detailed analysis, interviews, and access that you won’t find in any other telling of the PayPal…
In this OODAcast we interview one of our close friends and OODA network members, Jen Hoar. Jen is a former journalist-turned-corporate investigator who has leveraged the potent act of asking, and listening, to turn strangers into sources and contacts into clients. Her expertise, which is clearly also her passion, is identifying and interviewing smart people…
Covering technology issues, and specifically cybersecurity as a journalist is a tough endeavor. Some of these technologies are complex as are the security vulnerabilities often inherent in their deployment and making these topics broadly accessible can be a challenge. Many of the underlying issues touch upon national security and civil liberties creating an interesting nexus…
Lawrence Gasman has researched and reported on quantum technologies from the beginning of the discipline of quantum computing. He is now the President of Inside Quantum Technology (IQT), which provides in-depth business intelligence for the quantum technology industry. IQT also runs several major quantum technology conferences as well as a quantum industry news service. On…
In 2020, we launched the OODAcast video and podcast series designed to provide insightful analysis and actionable intelligence to decision makers. In this 100th episode, co-hosts Matt Devost and Bob Gourley review some of the key insights from the series. Matt and Bob also discuss a OODA’s recent assessment of risks and opportunities given the…
While the OODA Loop was been heralded in the domain of conflict, we often find the concept in business and there is no greater business analogy to dogfighting that David Greenberg’s experience as a trader on the floor of the world’s largest physical commodities exchange. David’s job required rapid decision making based on constantly changing…
Katharina McFarland has led change in a wide array of national security domains including Space, Missile Defense, Acquisition and Nuclear Posture. She is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A) and a former Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASAALT). She currently serves on several corporate boards and as…
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