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  • Escalating Tensions between US and Mexico: An OODA Network Strategic Assessment

    This recording is from a special OODA Salon featuring the highly regarded expert in international crime and law enforcement (and long term friend of OODA) John Sullivan, Hal Kempfer and Brian Micchael Jenkins. John led this expert panel in a discussion of the geopolitical and business impacts of the kidnappings and killings of Americans in…

  • Player Ready? A Third Launch Attempt by Space Startup of First 3D-Printed Rocket Confirmed

    The Next Launch Attempt Window is Saturday, March 11 from 13:00 to 16:00 ET.

  • The Future of Bitcoin and the Exponential Growth of and Risks Posed by Ordinal Inscriptions

    Bitcoin-based ordinal inscriptions are the “new, new thing” and an opportunity to frame and make more accessible issues surrounding designing, quantifying, and measuring exponential innovation. To start: the recent growth metrics of what are being described as the “NFTs of Bitcoin” – Ordinal Inscriptions aka Ordinals – from Jason Nelson at Decrypt: “On Monday, February…

  • What Executives Need To Know About The Annual Threat Assessment from the U.S. Intelligence Community

    The Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community is an unclassified report released each year concurrent with Congressional testimony to Congress by the Director of National Intelligence. The report focuses on what the ODNI believes are the most direct, serious threats to the U.S. during the next year.  OODA leverages the details of this…

  • The DoD Office of Strategic Capital Will Focus on Expanding Capital for Small Business

    Wesley Spurlock, Senior Advisor, Office of Strategic Capital (OSC), reached out via email recently with the following update: “…the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and the Secretary of Defense announced the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative. (SBICCT).”

  • Reducing the Risk of the Exponential Growth of Automated Influence Operations

    Of the research outlets we have discovered since the launch of OODALoop.com, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET),  OpenAI, and the Stanford Internet Observatory are best-in-class sources on topics of vital interest.  A new report  – “Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations” – is the result of…

  • Webinar: What business and government leaders should know and do about escalating tensions between US and Mexico

    On Friday 10 March at 5:30pm Eastern we are hosting a special OODA Salon featuring the highly regarded expert in international crime and law enforcement (and long term friend of OODA) John Sullivan. John and other special invited expert guests will discuss the geopolitical and business impacts of the kidnappings and killings of Americans in…

  • Pakistan Looking for a Cyber Way Forward

    The Ukraine crisis has revealed how geopolitical conflict can quickly spill over into cyberspace and bring in an assortment of other state and nonstate actors. Geopolitics has always been a powerful motivator in catalyzing aggressive and even hostile activity. Pakistan has been watching the crisis closely, purposefully remaining neutral as to avoid any unwanted attention…

  • Offensive Cyber: Moral Hazards and Externalities

    The world is in a contest for geopolitical advantage. Perhaps that has always been the case. We merely substituted the reconnaissance and surveillance of telegrams, telephones, signal flags, wigwags, and morse code for a continuous cycle of largely uninterrupted destruction, espionage, sabotage, and surveillance in cyberspace. What is certain is that cyberspace is now in…

  • Chips for America Funding Now Available

    The Biden-Harris administration through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology [on February 28th] launched the first CHIPS for America funding opportunity for manufacturing incentives to restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, support good-paying jobs across the semiconductor supply chain, and advance U.S. economic and national security. 


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    Kim Zetter on Understanding the Realities of Cyberthreats and How Code Has a Story to Tell

    This week’s OODAcast is with Kim Zetter, an incredibly well respected journalist who has been covering cybersecurity related issues for two decades.  Matt Devost talks with Kim about a wide variety of cyber-related issues including a deep dive into Stuxnet and the implications for today’s security environment. Kim also shares details as to how she…

  • 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…

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