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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

Analysis

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…
OODA Loop: On the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) and AI Acceleration

Many OODA Network Members also participate in the community of practice created by the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), which convenes this week in Washington, D.C., for the SCSP AI Expo and Ash Carter Exchange 2025. This post is a compilation of OODA Loop research, which includes references to SCSP research, researchers, and events, as…

OODAcasts

Authors

Brad Meltzer, Bestselling Novelist With Insights To Inform Your Business Strategy

June 26, 2020

Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cupler Ring Trilogy (The Inner Circle, The Fifth Assassin, The President’s Shadow), The Escape Artist, The Book of Lies and many other thrillers loved by millions for their realism and well researched fact based themes and drama filled plots. He is also widely…
Intelligence

OODA Expert John Robb on Global Guerrillas and Frameworks to Drive Decision Making

June 16, 2020

There is hardly a person more suited to speak with the OODA team on OODA Loops that former Air Force pilot John Robb. John has worked successfully in a variety of domains to include the special operations community, as an industry analyst, successful start-up founder, and national security expert. John Robb has distinguished himself with…
Cyber

Bobbie Stempfley of Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

June 12, 2020

The leadership team at OODA have had the pleasure of working with and learning from Bobbie Stempfley since her leadership of the Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (DoD CERT) after she established it in the late 1990’s. This OODAcast captures insights from Bobbie that can inform the action of leadership of corporate and…
Intelligence

Marc Ambinder of USC Annenberg School For Communication and Journalism

June 5, 2020

Marc Ambinder is a journalist, researcher, historian, author of bestselling books and a teacher/mentor to many. We invited him on the OODAcast to help our community as we continue to look for insights that can drive operational decisions. For 20 years, Marc Ambinder has told true and complex stories about the world, revealed some of its…
Authors, Tech

Peter Singer on Burn-In

May 29, 2020

Burn-In is anchored in the realities we see all around us today. Artificial Intelligence is coming fast and changing the nature of many jobs, robots and automation are bringing tremendous new capabilities but also threatening humanity with loss of employment opportunities. Parenting in a world where everyone, including kids, are always connected is already changing…
Cyber, Intelligence

Congressman Will Hurd on AI, 5G, Cybersecurity Risk and Geopolitical Risk

May 27, 2020

In this OODAcast, OODA LLC CEO Matt Devost interviews Congressman Will Hurd in a wide ranging discussion that touches on issues of geopolitical risk, cybersecurity, cyber risk and ways to help ensure our nation is prepared to compete and win in an age of rapid technological innovation. Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Communications (5G) and…
Intelligence

Robert Fink of Palantir on Lessons Learned From Using Data In Crisis Response

May 21, 2020

Robert Fink is on the leadership team at Palantir, where he has helped shape their approach to product design and architecture. He has also played major roles in ensuring the company stays focused on the mission needs of customers today, and, through shaping R&D, is helping ensure the company is better able to serve the…
JC Raby On Creating Value in Disruptive Markets

May 20, 2020

We invited Boston Merdian’s co-founder and partner JC Raby on to the OODAcast do discuss his insights into the market today as well as his views on things companies can do to ensure they position themselves for the best possible transaction in the future. We also asked his advice for the strategic investor/buyer of firms…
Tech

Renowned Business Executive Scott McNealy, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, On Leadership

May 18, 2020

Scott McNealy was a co-founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems and has one of the longest-running tenures as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in history. He was one of the few businessmen that played a critical role in the emergence of the Silicon Valley technology industry that exists today and is a highly…
CEO of Percipient Balan Ayyar on the OODA Loop in Business

May 15, 2020

Balan Ayyar is the Founder and CEO of Percipient.ai, a Silicon Valley based artificial intelligence firm focused on delivering products and solutions for the most pressing intelligence and national security challenges. We have been tracking this leader for years and have watched him inspire many to achieve great things. His leadership in senior officer roles…