This page serves as a dynamic resource for OODA Network members looking for Quantum Computing, Quantum Security and Quantum Sensing insights to drive their decision-making process.
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Chemicals, Metals, Mining, and the Business of American Materials The American materials sector sits at a pivotal juncture. The industry that furnishes the raw inputs for everything from microchips to skyscrapers is now being reshaped by the same technology it helps enable. Artificial intelligence is moving from isolated pilots to…
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By David Bray, PhD I am going to be frank: I almost opted to title this article “Dear Silicon Valley AI Companies: Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are” however I opted not to do this because a good Stoic views the world as opportunities to find good and improve the things that they can…
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The American energy sector sits at a crossroads. The industry that powers the world’s largest economy is now being reshaped by the technology it helped make possible. Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to production systems across oil and gas exploration, power generation, grid management, and renewable energy operations. The companies that figure out…
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Why Patching Vulnerabilities Is No Longer Enough: The Case for Patterns-of-Life Cybersecurity By David A. Bray, PhD and Jeff Frazier The cybersecurity challenges posed by AI-empowered adversaries and increasingly sophisticated multi-stage attacks are not going to disappear. And while Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing represent remarkable advances in AI-driven vulnerability discovery, relying solely on…
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The financial sector’s AI acceleration story is ultimately about more than banking, markets, or digital payments. It is about the emergence of a new operational architecture for global economic coordination.
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There is little doubt that China has matured into a full-spectrum cyber power. A recent analysis concludes that across sophistication, scale, stealth, and strategy, China should be regarded as a peer competitor.
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Between 2021 and 2025, healthcare, cybersecurity, and the financial sector became live operational laboratories for accelerating artificial intelligence. What emerged is a new operational environment.
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Manufacturing has always run on precision, repetition, and scale. Those same qualities make it a natural fit for artificial intelligence. AI has always been discussed in manufacturing, but the conversation has shifted. Increasingly it is about speed and diffusion of AI in service to outcomes in manufacturing. The question now is how fast manufacturing firms…
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We are seeing key insights that boards and CEOs need to internalize: the shift to probabilistic agents running at machine speed, humans optimizing solely for efficiency, and autonomous systems operating without human oversight.
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Our methodology for assessing organizational use of AI is the AI Acceleration Quotient. This post describes how to do repeatable standard assessments of AI using the same professional methodologies we use at OODA.
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Accelerationism is a system condition in which technological, geopolitical, economic, and social forces collide faster than institutions can adapt. This geopolitical conflict analysis is now visible in real time through the unfolding Iran conflict.
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A recent OODA Network survey on Compounding Accelerations reflects a network actively grappling with the convergence of multiple high-velocity forces and the growing realization that risk is no longer linear, isolated, or slow-moving.
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The recent U.S.-Iran conflict has proven that cyberspace is not always a supporting domain, but one that could be decisive for victory.
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Co-authored by R “Ray” Wang, Vala Afshar, and Dr. David Bray Editor’s Note: This article represents the second OODA Loop collaboration among R “Ray” Wang, CEO of Constellation Research; Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce; and Dr. David Bray, Chair of the Accelerator and Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. Executive Summary: Two days…
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Over the course of the monthly meeting discussion, network members reached a consensus based on the implications of Mythos and Project Glasswing: the next 12–36 months will define whether organizations can re-architect fast enough to avoid systemic cyber and economic disruption – or whether they will learn through failure at scale.
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By Trent R. Teyema, DSc and David Bray, PhD The Strategic Shift: From Software Defense to Hardware Verification The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. How can organizations verify the integrity of the technology infrastructure they depend on when adversaries have moved beyond software exploits to compromise the silicon itself? We are witnessing a…
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By Vala Afshar, R “Ray” Wang”, and David Bray, PhD As AI-generated employees infiltrate workforces, hardware arrives pre-compromised, and nation-states deploy Cold War tactics against corporations, organizations need a unified approach that works across security, operations, and leadership. Editor’s Note: This article represents the first OODA Loop collaboration among R “Ray” Wang, CEO of Constellation…
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Claude Mythos Shows Why Technological Advancement Outpaces Risk Mitigation Anthropic’s Claude Mythos marks a watershed moment for artificial intelligence (AI) and information security. While the technical achievements of this frontier model are undeniable, its arrival signals a troubling shift in the global cybersecurity environment, one that favors the aggressor and further erodes the already tenuous…
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New Space Challenges: Rethinking How to Do Satellite Defense in an Era of Increasing Commercial Actors By Trent Teyema, DSc and David Bray, PhD How can the United States develop a coherent defensive strategy for space that encompasses both commercial and government activities, without imposing prohibitive costs or regulatory burdens that would undermine the very…
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Opinion: Why Restraint Defines the 2026 Threat Assessment It’s become an almost annual ritual where the U.S. government publishes an Intelligence Community (IC) unclassified annual threat assessment, which is immediately met with a wave of critiques arguing where it falls short, whether it being too vague, too cautious, or not alarmist enough. The 2026 Annual…
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In this post, we examine a new class of organization: the AI-native company. These are companies born in the age of Generative and Agentic AI, which have been designed from inception to leverage powerful new capabilities.
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“A Queryable World” creates a new kind of competitive landscape, where the value proposition for your organization shifts from delivering information to delivering a trusted interpretation of your customer’s real-time situational awareness and risk profile.
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The OODA Network has always placed scenario planning and science fiction at the center of its efforts to structure and focus our collective intelligence and to guard against failures of imagination, groupthink, and cognitive biases.
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In the 21st Century, cyber war rarely announces itself with a declaration or explosions or troop movements. It unfolds quietly, inside networks and across supply chains, and within the data upon which modern societies rely.
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Between 2021 and 2025, cybersecurity quietly became one of the most consequential early adopters of artificial intelligence—not as a moonshot, but as a survival strategy.
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Enterprise AI is in the middle of an architectural transition that most organizations have not named correctly. The shift from single foundation models to tiered, federated, agentic systems is not a capability story instead it is an economics, governance, and operational story. This three-part series distills the key findings from a set of in-depth technical…
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Relevance Reboot – AI’s Galileo Moment In my last essay, I wrote about my personal journey with staying relevant. The learning posture, the mirror test, knowing when it’s five to twelve. But underneath those tactical questions is something deeper: what IS relevance when AI is fundamentally changing what we mean by intelligence and value? That’s…
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Enterprise AI is in the middle of an architectural transition that most organizations have not named correctly. The shift from single foundation models to tiered, federated, agentic systems is not a capability story instead it is an economics, governance, and operational story. This three-part series distills the key findings from a set of in-depth technical…
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Peace Through Strength in Cyberspace: Understanding the New Cyber Strategy Cyberspace has long been a domain where the rules of statecraft remain unsettled. For several years, the United States has altered its approach between defense, deterrence, and quiet offensive operations. The recently released Cyber Strategy attempts to clarify that posture, applying a familiar doctrine that…
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Enterprise AI is in the middle of an architectural transition that most organizations have not named correctly. The shift from single foundation models to tiered, federated, agentic systems is not a capability story instead it is an economics, governance, and operational story. This three-part series distills the key findings from a set of in-depth technical…
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By Dr. David Bray and Ryan McLean Imagine a squad of soldiers moving through a dense urban environment where the sky is suddenly filled with the hum of a hundred low-cost drones. Or imagine a city’s emergency dispatch center going dark in the middle of a coordinated cyber-physical attack on the power grid. In these…
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How Chinese Cyber Espionage Is Powering Its Cognitive Warfare Program In 2026, the contours of conflict have changed. China’s cyber espionage apparatus is no longer a mere data-theft machine—it has become a foundational engine for cognitive warfare. Beijing’s strategic design integrates the extraction of massive datasets and clandestine access to foreign communications with the capacity…
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Introduction Each year, the OODA Almanac is the most provocative piece we publish. We take the opportunity not only to provoke your thinking with disruptive ideas but to peer over the edge into the emergent future. In past years we have charted exponential disruption, jagged transitions, reorientation, and whiplash. This year the theme is re-anchoring,…
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Why Venezuela, Iran, and the Digital Battlefield May Be Reframing Global Statecraft In early January 2026, the United States carried out Operation Absolute Resolve, combining combined elite airborne forces, covert intelligence, and, reportedly, cyber effects that plunged portions of Venezuela’s capital into darkness. President Donald Trump’s comments suggested that “certain expertise” had been used to…
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These big three will make monumental shifts in the world. This new Tech Trinity will redefine our economy, both threaten and fortify our national security, and revolutionize our intelligence community. None of us are ready for this. This convergence requires a deepened commitment to foresight and preparation and planning on a level that is not occurring anywhere.
The principals at OODA have tracked the science and technology of quantum technologies for decades, including closely watching the emergence of commercial firms leveraging quantum effects for security, communications and sensing. We closely track the transition of R&D into real companies that can deliver solutions based on quantum effects and provide a short list of companies that do so on this page. The Quantum List those we believe are poised to have an impact on the economy, including firms that deliver capabilities in Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, Quantum Communications and Quantum Sensing. Companies we track on the list include: IBM, Google, Microsoft, D-Wave, OQC, Cold Quanta, IonQ, Rigetti Computing, Quantinuum, QuSecure, Quantum Xchange, QuintessenceLabs, Crypto Quantique, ID Quantique, QWERZ, SandboxAQ, Argit, Strange Works, Zapata, The Entanglement Institute, TerraQuantum, PsiQuantum, Xanadu.
What business decision-makers need to know now about quantum superiority. This guide captures key concepts and the status of major quantum computing research initiatives in a way meant to serve the needs of operational decision-makers. Our goal: inform you about the near future so you can make the right changes to your strategy today.
This is an update to our Executive’s Guide to Quantum Safe Security, based on a new round of research that has included interviews of OODA Network experts, technology providers and senior executives in enterprises. Quantum Computers will bring new power to adversaries. But when? And what can you do now to mitigate that threat? This report provides insights that can drive your action today.
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is an exciting application of quantum technologies that has exploded in the past decade. QKD is used to share encryption keys across an established optical link or network. QKD can be used to generate a secure, shared secret key between two users. This key is then used in an algorithm to encrypt message traffic. The big advantage QKD offers is that any attempt to read the information stored in the photons would destroy the message and be immediately detected. Quantum cryptography is fundamentally viable today in the laboratory and used in some high-end security applications, like banking and stock trading, that can rely on dedicated short distance physical fibers.
A new NIST program makes creative use of quantum technologies to deliver advanced measurement solutions to users in commerce, medicine, defense and academia. This delivery of measurement standards in a chip format is known as NIST on a CHIP (NOAC). The time for leaders to think of how this may change your business model is now.
Vikram Sharma is the CEO of QuintessenceLabs, a company he founded to leverage an understanding of how physics works at the quantum level to address some of the biggest issues in cybersecurity. In this discussion at OODAcon, Vikram provided a high level overview of what years of quantum theory and 1000’s of experiments on the nature of reality tell us about the nature of reality, especially reality when measured at the smallest scale. His insights into the world of quantum mechanics includes a description of some of some very strange observations, which are seen again and again in experiment after experiment.
Months ago we began to formulate an assessment that a history-making announcement in quantum computing was about to be made. For years the big players in quantum research, including IBM, Microsoft and Google, have been pursuing different methods of using quantum effects to do new calculations. Google had even made announcements indicating they thought they could achieve history-making results in the near term. Because of all that we had been producing a series of reports aimed at making you as informed as possible on what breakthrough announcements in quantum computing could mean for your business strategy. This post memorializes a point in history we should all remember, even though it was not a point where a real world use case was performed.
Context from OODA’s Matt Devost on the very near future of quantum computing. This is clearly an area where focused due diligence is required, both for how data is being stored and secured today and how enterprises should be preparing for an age of no more secrets.
Additional Research:
What To Do About Quantum Uncertainty: Guess what, besides uncertainty at a quantum level there is great uncertainty among business and policy makers regarding Quantum Computing.
AI, quantum computing and 5G could make criminals more dangerous than ever, warn police: Quantum is one of many emerging technologies that law enforcement professionals are tracking
Intel offers AI breakthrough in quantum computing: This article is more about quantum simulations for AI, but shows the ecosystem that is developing around the technology
Quantum Computing That Can Crack Modern Encryption More Than a Decade Away: When we see reports like this we wonder what qualifies the experts to say this. But in this case the experts are the National Academies of Sciences.
Could quantum computers render current bitcoin and most blockchain cryptography powerless?: There is a worry that new algorithms that could run on quantum computing could attack blockchain and asymmetric encryption.
