On Friday, August 16, at 11:56 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched Transporter-11, SpaceX’s 11th dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Tanager-1’s payload included a cubesat built by San Francisco-based company Aethero, the first space-hardened Nvidia AI GPU built into the Aethero device, and Planet’s…
A Congressionally mandated bi-partisan Commission on the National Defense Strategy has provided actionable recommendations pointing to shifts in U.S. strategy: Here is what you need to know.
In the spirit of the significance of tracking the global impact of disruptive events and encouraging the sharing of relevant stories for compilation, the following is our latest tracking of the Crowdstrike Incident since our last update on 7/22 – The Crowdstrike/Microsoft Global IT Outage Debacle: Ongoing Impacts and Recent Updates and the July 2024…
CISA Director Jen Easterly participated in a keynote session at Black Hat USA 2024 to “unpack how international leaders are approaching election security risks to the democratic processes.” Along with coverage of this keynote panel, we have compiled Director Easterly’s recent communications on the 2024 security threats and security and integrity strategies taken up by…
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its principal set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand cyberattacks from a quantum computer.
The Federal Ruling against Google is finally part of the tipping point, as many have been waiting for a much-needed wave of judicial and legislative activity to begin strengthening the U.S. cognitive infrastructure and cleaning up the information ecosystem. Details of the ruling can be found in this post.
Designed as “A Practical Guide for State and Local Governments,” Addressing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Elections is diagnostic, prescriptive, directive, and immediately actionable. The report is the result of a workshop convened in the spring of 2024 consisting of a group of senior law enforcement officials, national security analysts, attorneys, legal…
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”.