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  • Berkeley Humanoid Lite: Open-Source Breakthrough in Accessible Robotics

    Researchers at UC Berkeley unveiled Berkeley Humanoid Lite, a fully open-source, mid-scale humanoid robot platform designed to radically lower the barrier of entry for robotics research, education, and innovation through low-cost, modular 3D-printed design.

  • The Private Sector Seeks to Minimize Cyber Threat Actor Attribution.  Will It Work?

    Recently, Microsoft and CrowdStrike are collaborating in order to streamline the naming conventions of state and nonstate cyber activity in an effort to clarify current inconsistencies across the cybersecurity industry’s attribution taxonomies.  As anyone involved in cybersecurity knows, vendor reporting of hostile campaigns can be confusing as companies use unique identifiers to classify campaigns to differentiate the orchestrators…

  • Thermodynamic Computing Could Radically Reshape AI, Energy, and Strategic Competition

    At the 2025 SCSP AI Expo, Extropic CEO Guillaume Verdon provided details and updates that build on his presentation from OODAcon 2024 back in November. Verdon continues to provide real-world updates on the traction of his startup operation while broadly evangelizing a vision of the future of thermodynamic computing, which promises orders-of-magnitude improvements in energy…

  • No-Code Robots and the Rise of Generative Automation

    Generative AI is transforming robotics from code-heavy systems into intuitive tools, enabling non-experts to program complex tasks and unlocking massive gains in automation, productivity, and adaptability.

  • Eric Schmidt Warns: AI Workflows Are Redefining Command and Advantage

    Former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt is the Chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), which hosted its annual AI Expo and Ash Carter Exchange last week. Speaking at the event, Schmidt warned that AI is transforming not just knowledge creation, but the very workflows that underpin national power, enterprise innovation, and personal…

  • OODA Weekly Dispatch: AI in National Security, OODA Network at Blackhat and Defcon, and Global Events Recap

    This week’s member only OODA Network Dispatch focuses on context you can use to inform your decision-making in an age of disruptive technology.

  • Adversaries Push for UN Cybercrime Treaty. The U.S. Needs to Be Involved.

    Recently, Russia signed a joint “International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security” agreement with several authoritarian governments to include but not limited to Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. The agreement asserts that the motivation behind this agreement is to sustain “transparent and equitable system of international information security based on the principles…

  • U.S. Quantum Leadership at a Crossroads: A Call for Urgent Federal Action to Sustain Strategic Edge

    The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on U.S. Quantum Leadership warns that without immediate, large-scale federal investment and policy support, the United States risks falling behind in the race for quantum supremacy, particularly against China. Why This Matters …China’s state-backed surge in funding and infrastructure threatens to outpace American efforts. Quantum technologies—from…

  • U.S. Support for Ukraine Would be Cheap at Twice the Price

    Ukraine has become the proving ground, and increasingly the foundry, for the future of security-related technologies. We need that learning, and we need it more quickly and at greater scale.

  • The Urgent Need for Small Drone Capabilities in the Indo-Pacific: Lessons from Ukraine’s Recent Success

    In 1932, Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell led a naval exercise that should have changed history. Commanding aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Saratoga, Yarnell’s planes successfully executed a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor, dropping flour sacks to represent bombs. Despite this clear demonstration of vulnerability, military leadership disqualified the results, deeming them unrealistic. Nine…


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  • OODAcon 2025

    OODAcon 2025

    We are in the planning stages of OODAcon 2025, which will be held 29 October 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Reston. For an overview of last year’s OODAcon see: OODAcon 2024 Welcome to OODAcon 2025

  • OODAcon 2023

    OODAcon 2023

    OODAcon 2023 October 25th – Reston, VA The anticipation of disruptive technologies has allure for those of us trying to develop informed strategies about the future, but what if those disruptive technologies already exist today? Our theme for this year’s OODAcon is FUTURE NOW as we focus on the technologies, ideas, and risks that exist right now…

  • OODAcon 2024

    OODAcon 2024

    The conference will feature an impressive lineup of speakers—pioneers who are steering the direction of their respective fields towards a unified vision of the future. OODAcon 2024 is your arena to witness, participate, and contribute to the dialogue that drives innovation forward. Join us in hacking the future, together, as we navigate the complexities of…