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Does the World Need an International Software Governance Treaty?

Does the World Need an International Software Governance Treaty? There is little doubt that software plays an important role in modern society as it runs financial systems, manages electricity grids, facilitates communications, supports healthcare, controls transportation, and increasingly drives military and government operations. Most of this infrastructure is overlooked by the average user. It works…
Why and How Human Agency and Decentralized Approaches to AI Are Transforming Problem-Solving at the Edge

In our rapidly changing world, I often return to a foundational question: How can we ensure that emerging technologies expand human freedom, choice, and dignity rather than concentrating control in distant institutions? For the past twenty years, across crisis responses, national commissions, and leadership roles in turbulent environments, I have observed a consistent pattern: institutional…
The advantage goes to whoever orients first: OODAcon will help you do just that.

OODAcon 2026 is for the people who’d rather get to the future first.
Questions Worth Asking, From the Perspective of Counter-Bioterrorism, When a Prominent AI Company Wades Into AI + Bio Research

Over the recent years with OODALoop, I have written various articles, and done a video with the esteemed Bob Gourley, outlining the reasons why AI + Bio does not mean certain doom. I write this having responded to different bioterrorism and chemical terrorism-related responses and provided technology that helped with rapid epidemiological characterizations and laboratory…
The August 2026 OODA Network Meeting: Autonomous Agents, Escalating Capability, and Unsettled Authority

The August 2026 OODA Network meeting moved quickly from lessons emerging out of Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34 into a deeper examination of agentic AI containment, the limits of guardrails, legal liability for autonomous behavior, biotechnology risk, and a renewed debate over cyber offensive capabilities and government-authorized private cyber operations.
Opinion: Deputizing Private Cybersecurity Firms Comes With Hidden Risks

Editor’s note: We recognize opinions vary on this topic, and would welcome responses from other informed experts on this critically important subject. The August 12, 2026 National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime established a federal framework to authorize vetted private cybersecurity firms to conduct offensive cyber operations. Many view…
Transforming Enterprises As Cybersecurity Becomes the Foundation of Economic and National Power

The technology fabric available to enterprises and governments is transforming fast. We are all witnessing transformations in the tools of cybersecurity, the skills required for a good cybersecurity program, optimal organizational constructs, how authority is delegated, where value accumulates, and huge AI driven shifts.
Agentic AI: Risks, Opportunities, and the Race Between Capability and Control – An OODA Network Survey

The Q2 2026 OODA Network Survey reveals a community that is simultaneously enthusiastic about Agentic AI’s transformative potential and nearly certain that a major AI-driven enterprise incident is approaching on an accelerated timeline.
The Under-examined AI Diffusion Metric to Watch in 2026: Exponential Material Science Convergence

There are so many ways to measure AI diffusion. Here, we dive into one we consider under-examined: how rapidly AI-enabled discovery, simulation, and materials innovation move across industry sectors.
Physical AI Leapfrogs into a Radical New Innovation Phase: Real-World, Real-Time Simulation

An expanding Physical AI ecosystem is converging into an integrated platform for deploying intelligent machines that operate in realistic physical environments.
Quantum’s Two Clocks: The Cryptographic Deadline and the Deployment Race

Post-Quantum Migration, Crypto Agility, Coordinated Quantum Policy, and the Signals of a Maturing Global Quantum Economy
What we found building The Demand Signal on a DGX Spark

The Demand Signal brings in multiple authoritative data sources on government procurement. This service is free to OODA subscribers and members.
How Deep Tech Ecosystems Catalyze Regional Innovation: Munich as Exemplar

The June 2026 OODA Network Meeting continued OODA’s ongoing exploration of how the emergence of regional deep-tech ecosystems is reshaping globalization.
Information Integrity Is a National Security Must

With more public and private institutions embracing AI, this technology has introduced a new attack surface that has received little attention: information integrity.
The July 2026 OODA Network Meeting: Space Architectures, AI Governance, and Improving the DoW’s Research Enterprise

OODA Network member Dr. Jennifer Buss, CEO of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, opened this month’s OODA Network meeting with a look at a fast-moving set of policy questions.