To help members optimize opportunities and reduce risk, OODA hosts a monthly video call to discuss items of common interest to our membership. These highly collaborative sessions are always a great …
Open-Source Intelligence Resources: The USGS 2022 List of Critical Minerals
Moody’s Analytics economist Tim Uy wrote in a recent report: “The greatest risk facing global supply chains has shifted from the pandemic to the Russia-Ukraine military conflict and the geopolitical …
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Africa CDC signs MOU with Pfizer to supply COVID-19 pills
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Africa’s top public health agency and Pfizer to being supplies of Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to Africa. The unit of the African Union, the …
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Russia Is Not Following Its Own Blueprint for Success in Cyberspace Against Ukraine
More than a week into its invasion of Ukraine, by many accounts the Russian military effort is not going as well as expected. Some movements have stalled, impacting Russian force supplies and …
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Perspectives for the C-Suite Decision-Maker
In hindsight, it was relatively easy for us to spot and highlight the real potential of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. We had been highlighting it for 11 months in our research, discussing it in …
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John Boyd on Patterns of Conflict and the OODA Loop
John Boyd studied. He studied fighter pilot tactics, studied aeronautical engineering, studied bureaucrats and how to avoid their traps, studied evolution and biology, and studied history. And Boyd …
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IRS will let taxpayers opt out of ID.me facial recognition with a live interview
After recent news that the IRS would mandate ID.me facial recognition security to access taxpayer accounts, the IRS decided that US taxpayers who do not want to submit biometric data will instead sign …
Covid-19, Future Pandemics and Managing the Exponential Risk of Infectious Disease
There are two books that many people have returned to read or discovered during the pandemic which--taken together--have been pretty good source material for decision-making around the pandemic. The …
Blockchain-based decentralized messengers: A privacy pipedream?
As people all over the globe have become increasingly aware of their privacy rights and how they are constantly being violated by various prominent social media platforms, the need for tangible, …
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Web 3.0 and the undeliverable promise of decentralization
The definition of "Web 3.0" has assumed different incarnations over the past few years, depending on whom you asked and when. We initially thought it would have been some kind of semantic web, with …
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