Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
For our purposes, the recent stoic, realpolitik "capture" of a baseline reality by the Canadian Prime Minister puts a geopolitical stake in the ground amidst an information ecosystem ripe with misinformation and spectacle.
Today, the U.S. used the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to escalate economic and diplomatic pressure on Europe over Greenland, testing alliance norms, market stability, and the limits of the post WWII treaty-based order.
At the SVB/Vencapital Boston Venture Finance Summit 2025, panelists and subject matter experts converged on a single conclusion: venture capital has entered a discipline-first phase.
Malaysia has entered the digital asset frontier with the launch of RMJDT, a Ringgit-backed stablecoin tied to the Malaysia Blockchain Infrastructure (MBI) and supported by a substantial crypto treasury.
The Vertex Project recently debuted a hands-on insider threat analysis exercise - the Vertex Insider Threat Challenge - designed to bring realistic investigative scenarios to intelligence analysts and security practitioners.
Uncut Gem - A fully open-source, hackable quantum sensor - signals a shift from closed, lab-bound quantum systems toward modular, inspectable, and community-driven quantum infrastructure.
As the earliest large-scale adopter of AI, healthcare demonstrated the promise and peril of accelerated innovation—revealing where algorithmic tools deliver breakthroughs and where they generate unacceptable risk.
This year-end collection of analyses provides a structured observe and orient foundation for leaders preparing for 2026 - highlighting where momentum built, where friction emerged, and where decisive action will be required next.
In 2025, the OODA Network Monthly Meetings captured a decisive shift from awareness to action as accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space, and quantum technologies collided with heightened geopolitical volatility.
Guest speakers from The Quantum Village (Mark Carney and Victoria Kumaran) made clear that 2026 is no longer about learning what quantum is, but about preparing institutions to operate in a quantum-aware and quantum-ready world.
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence