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 …
OODA Almanac 2024 – Reorientation
The year 2024 will require a reorientation to new realities, largely driven by the acceleration of disruptive technologies grinding against the inertia of stale institutions that would rather we snack …
Biotechnology in Warfare and Battle – and the Human Body as a Warfighting Domain
RAND researchers in a recently released report explore biology as the platform on which future wars will be fought. Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War "examines the …
The January 2024 OODA Network Monthly Meeting: What is on Your Radar in 2024?
The first OODA Network Member Meeting of 2024 was held on Friday January 19, 2024. The meeting was organized around an initial prompt question: "What should we be thinking about in 2024?" The …
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AI Breakthroughs and Promising Partnerships: What You Need to Know
In this post, we have separated the wheat from the chaff in the AI ecosystem, surfacing and highlighting some of the most prescient AI/ML breakthroughs and promising public/private …
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OODAcon 2024
The annual OODAcon event brings together the hackers, thinkers, strategists, disruptors, leaders, technologists, and creators with one foot in the future to discuss the most pressing issues of the day …
As Two Billion People go to the Polls in 2024, Foundational LLMs and Misinformation are “The Perfect Storm”
Early warning systems are flashing red - indicating a growing "perfect storm" over the next 11 months as: Foundational Large Language Models (LLMs) grow exponentially - based on the exponential …
Does the U.S. Have a “Talent Superpower Strategy”?
China has articulated a "Talent Superpower Strategy." But does the U.S.have an equivalent workforce and talent strategy for educating, training, attracting and retaining the talent required for …
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Regaining Trust: Improving Science and Public Health Policy Communications
We are in the midst of a Covid, RSV, and flu virus surge that both media and governmental outlets have not and are no doing any public messaging about (in some regions, the current surge matches the …
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Recent Developments in and the Future of the Bioeconomy in 2024
We have tracked vital recent developments in health security, bioengineering, synthetic biology, biotechnology, and medical technology - which are compiled here. The future of the U.S. Bioeconomy is …
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