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  • Microsoft and OpenAI Issue a Stark Report and a $10M Bounty from the State Department

    Competing cyber capabilities (on a spectrum from nation-state to non-state actors alike) and cyber-based conflict will continue to restructure, reformulate, and transform the very essence of what power, prestige, international governance, and geopolitical strategy are in the 21st century – and large language models are the new force multiplier.  Microsoft and OpenAI have quantified the…

  • Global AI Developers Need to Set Some Standards – Now

    Too many times the world has been caught flat-footed by technological advances.  With generative AI there has been ample expectation of its capabilities for both good and bad not to be prepared for what is already materializing.

  • Rice and Fertilizer are the Linchpins of Global Food Insecurity

    Recent restrictions on rice exports by India prompt this analysis of the on the ground conditions of global food insecurity, returning to some of the themes we explored in The Future of Food (In)Security and Agriculture Cybersecurity: Grain Hoarding, Rice Shortages and the War in Ukraine.  In 2024, we are on the lookout for technological…

  • What You Need to Know About the Convergence of Robot Process Automation (RPA) and AI

    According to the Robot Report, The International Federation of Robotics recently “noted that the stock of operational robots around the world attained a new record of about 3.9 million units in 2022. The average robot density, or number of robots per 10,000 human workers, rose to 151 and the trend of using artificial intelligence in robotics and…

  • Will The AI Safety Institute – and the Consortium Model – Insure an AI-safe Future?

    Consistent with our recent analysis of government regulation (or overregulation?) of AI, and the introduction of the concept of the “decontrol” of AI, the recent launch of the AI Safety Institute (organized as a public/private consortium) begs the same questions:  although a public/private collaboration, is the AI Safety Institute an extension of an overall climate…

  • Contextualizing Advancements in Bioengineering to your Business Operations

    As noted in the first post in this series, it has become increasingly clear that the revolution in biological science will impact most every sector of the economy.

  • The Space Economy in 2024

    The near term opportunities and risks of the space economy and Space Force, innovation, and national security were discussed at length at OODAcon 2023. We return here to the two panels from the conference and a compilation of our space coverage as we head into a year in space ripe with innovation, critical missions, and…

  • Nations Agree to Reign in Commercial Spyware- How Serious Are They?

    ecently, more than 35 nations have signed a new international agreement to collaborate on reigning in the “hacker for hire” commercial market, in which private interests sell tools and services to support offensive cyber activities.

  • Globalization Transformed: Where Should Your Organization “Nearshore” and/or “Friendshore”?

    Various perspectives – on Latin American nearshoring and Indo-Pacific “friendshoring” with allied nations in an effort to secure and shorten global supply chains – as well as the emergence of “China +1” –  four emergent manufacturing hubs – can be found here in this post.  

  • Decontrol AI to Accelerate Solutions

    In a previous post we asked “Is the US Government Over-Regulating Artificial Intelligence?” We followed it with some historical context and a summary of today’s government controls in “Regulations on Government Use of AI.” This post builds on those two to examine an example on how a decontrol mindset can help speed AI solutions into…


OODAcasts

  • Junaid Islam on Zero Trust Architecture

    Junaid Islam on Zero Trust Architecture

    In this OODAcast we provide insights into Zero Trust architectures from an experienced practitioner, Junaid Islam. Junaid is a senior partner at OODA. He has over 30 years of experience in secure communications and the design and operations of highly functional enterprise architectures. He founded Bivio Networks, maker of the first gigabyte speed general purpose…

  • Scythe CEO Bryson Bort on Enhancing Security with Realistic Adversary Emulation

    Scythe CEO Bryson Bort on Enhancing Security with Realistic Adversary Emulation

    Bryson Bort is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy. He is widely known in the cybersecurity community for helping advance concepts of defense across multiple critical domains. He is the co-founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control…

  • Trond Undheim on the Future of Technology and a Framework for Analyzing Forces of Disruption

    Trond Undheim on the Future of Technology and a Framework for Analyzing Forces of Disruption

    Trond Undheim is a futurist, investor, consultant, executive, speaker, entrepreneur and podcaster. He produces widely impactful podcasts: Futurized, which tracks the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment, and Augmented, which reveals stories behind the new era of industrial operations.

  • Jeremy King on the greatest leaders he has ever seen (and how we can all keep learning leadership)

    Jeremy King on the greatest leaders he has ever seen (and how we can all keep learning leadership)

    Jeremy King is a trusted advisor to corporate boards and some of the nation’s most elite business leaders. He is also a serial connector helping move business information on opportunities at the intersection of talent, capital, entrepreneurs and business development. Jeremy is an entrepreneur himself, creating successful executive search firms and also a game-changing non-profit…

  • Ben Ford, Founder of Commando Development, on the OODA Loop and Tech Leadership

    Ben Ford, Founder of Commando Development, on the OODA Loop and Tech Leadership

    Ben Ford is the founder of Commando Development, a firm which leverages his deep background and experience in enterprise IT as well as his years in service as a Royal Marine to the benefit of technology teams in startups and large enterprises. In this OODAcast we discuss Ben’s views on the history of Commando’s, from…

  • Matt Devost on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Succeeding in Competitive Environments

    Matt Devost on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Succeeding in Competitive Environments

    OODA CEO Matt Devost has a track record of executing on innovation via entrepreneurship. You may also know him as the Co-Host of the OODAcast or perhaps through his role as a technologist and international security expert. He has extensive past performance in cybersecurity, counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, and risk management issues.

  • Jim Clapper Shares Wisdom From A Career in Operational Intelligence
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    Jim Clapper Shares Wisdom From A Career in Operational Intelligence

    Security, Risk Management and Intelligence professionals all know of Jim Clapper, this week’s OODAcast guest. He had a long and distinguished career in the US Air Force, which included leadership spanning the Vietnam era all the way to the end of the Cold War. By the time he retired he was a three star General,…

  • Ray Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, On The Business Impact of Technology
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    Ray Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, On The Business Impact of Technology

    In this week’s OODAcast we interview Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. Ray is a great leader, evidenced by the people he has attracted to his firm. I know many of his team and can say for a fact that they are people who can do just about anything they want (which means they are…

  • Lisa Porter On Innovation, Technology, Security and Lessons in Leadership

    Lisa Porter On Innovation, Technology, Security and Lessons in Leadership

    Lisa J. Porter has successfully lead some of the world’s largest and most critical technology efforts. Her career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees, a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford. She would later lecture at MIT and…

  • Nate Fick on Dynamic Leadership and Adapting to Change

    Nate Fick on Dynamic Leadership and Adapting to Change

    Nate Fick’s career has been eclectic, but with a common element of demonstrating superior leadership abilities in a diverse array of successful opportunities. Nate is currently a General Manager at Elastic, having joined the firm with their acquisition of Endgame where he served as CEO.

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