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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
The May 2025 OODA Network meeting delivered a comprehensive analysis of the cyber and national security technology landscape, drawing from recent network member attendance at major conferences including RSA, the In-Q-Tel CEO Summit, and SOF Week. OODA Network members on the monthly call surfaced major trends in AI, cybersecurity, defense tech, and geopolitical influence.
Melissa Flagg argues that America’s innovation system, still guided by the frameworks established by Vannevar Bush in 1945, is failing to address the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. She calls for a fundamental reassessment of the research funding landscape, focusing not on nostalgia for past successes but on forging new connections between research,…
Experts on AI and Chinese technology policy, writing for Just Security recently, pulled the string on the AI Diffusion framework we have laid out here at OODA Loop in recent posts. Their discussion points are compelling and worth a review. We provide a summary and analysis here.
The global AI boom has triggered an unprecedented investment wave—nearly $7 trillion by 2030—to scale data centers that fuel artificial intelligence, sparking intense competition, uncertainty, and strategic risk across industries. An April 2025 report from McKinsey quantifies the monumental stakes and capital requirements to meet surging AI compute demands. The insights from the report are…
As reported by the Financial Times, the convergence of trade wars, geopolitical instability, and disruptive technologies is straining traditional scenario planning methods, forcing organizations to rethink their models for an increasingly volatile and ambiguous future. OODA Loop has been grappling with these issues for a while, which we capture in a compilation of our recent…
US chip and IT supply chains face a new era of embedded risk and legislative scrutiny, with the Chip Security Act seeking to secure on-chip supply chains against adversarial threats.
We have been on this beat for a while: as the convergence of AI chip security, zero-trust architectures, and supply chain resilience began to reshape national security imperatives, demanding a shift toward hardware-native, verifiable security models. The following post is a compilation of our tracking and analysis to date.
Late last year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released the Drone Proliferation Dataset, offering a comprehensive overview of military-grade drone transfers from 1995 to September 2023. This dataset highlights a significant shift in global drone dynamics, with emerging players like Turkey, China, and Iran challenging the longstanding dominance of the U.S. and…
In this episode of OODAcast, Bob Gourley interviews Laura Thomas, a deep tech consultant and former CIA officer. Laura discusses her journey from a small town in North Carolina to a career in the CIA, where she served as a case officer. She emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and decision-making under uncertainty, and how…
Allan Friedman is a senior strategist at CISA (the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency) where he coordinates all of their cross-sector activities on the topic of SBOM: The Software Bill of Materials.
Joe Sullivan has been at the forefront of managing security risk in rapidly growing high tech companies over the past 20 years serving as the Chief Security Officer at Facebook from early start-up through the IPO, CSO of Uber and CloudFlare, and as a security leader at eBay/PayPal. Learn what motivates him and some of…
Joe Tranquillo is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Bucknell University and a provost at the school. He is also and author and speaker with a knack for helping make new and at times complex subjects understandable. In this OODAcast we discuss many aspects of the revolution in biological sciences with Joe including topics like:…
Charles Clancy has successfully led technology efforts in government, industry, academia and continues to lead and innovate in his current position as Senior Vice President and GM of MITRE Labs. He is MITRE’s Chief Futurist. His role in technology leadership and his tracking of tech across multiple domains made for an incredibly insightful OODAcast. We…
Mark McGrath has applied the teachings of John Boyd to a career that began in the Marine Corps, included leadership positions in financial services firms and consulting with businesses with a need to learn to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. He co-founded the consultancy AGLX and serves as its Chief Learning…
Serene is a hacker in the truest sense of the word. She’s applied a hacker mindset to learn coding, piano, and blend art and engineering in fascinating ways. You’ll find her collaborating on-stage with Grimes one night and coding censorship resistant technologies the next day. As a self-taught coder she was the first engineer hired…
Andy Bochman is the Senior Grid Strategist-Defender for Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security directorate. In this role, Andy provides strategic guidance on topics at the intersection of grid security and climate resilience to INL leadership as well as senior U.S. and international government and industry leaders. Andy is a frequent speaker, writer, and trainer…
Spencer Ante is the author or “Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital”, which was on my Top 10 book list for 2022. In fact, I found Doriot’s story so compelling that a portrait of him hangs on the wall at the Hack Factory start-up studio in Reston, VA. Doriot is a…
Bob Zukis is a man on a mission to improve the ability of corporate America to succeed in a complex digital world, even when under constant cyber attack. Bob is the CEO and founder of the Digital Directors Network, the global pioneer in helping corporate directors advance their understanding of systemic risk. We consider Bob…
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