On Monday, June 12 at 2:35 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched Transporter-8, SpaceX’s eighth dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in …
Every Business Leader Should Know About the Recent Deep Fake Experience of Bill Browder
After the murder by the Russian state of his company's lead lawyer in Russia - Sergei Magnitsky - Bill Browder became a sworn enemy of Vladimir Putin. Browder was the driver behind the passage of the …
The Keynote Conversation at OODAcon 2022: OODA CTO Bob Gourley and Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf
As we begin to ramp up for OODAcon 2023 (October 25th in Reston, VA), we return to the Keynote Conversation between Bob Gourley and Vint Cerf at OODAcon 2022. Find the full transcript below, as well …
The Latest DoD “Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies” (APFIT) Pilot Projects
As part of a new program to bridge the “valley of death” for military technology, The Defense Department (DoD) recently announced 11 new projects: "The...projects range from commercial satellite …
The Challenges of and Defending Against Adversarial Machine Learning
This post is a primer on a big topic, adversarial machine learning. More than any other development of, say, the last five to eight years, adversarial machine learning is very representative of a …
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The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – The Quad – and the Future of AI
The 2023 Quad Leaders Summit (which was supposed to meet in Australia on May 24, 2023, after the G7 Summit in Japan) was canceled (after Joe Biden shortened his Asia trip to attend to the debt ceiling …
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Eight Noteworthy GPT Announcements, Large Language Model Developments and AI Productivity Tools
Following is a survey of recently announced GPT platforms of note - culled from the exponential generative AI headlines of the last few months. It is a curated selection of *GPT and *AI platforms for …
Space-Based Power Project Successfully Transmits Power To Earth For First Time
Sci-Fi fans and futurists have long envisioned a mechanism that would capture solar power from space, focus it and transmit it to earth as a way of providing more efficient energy for humanity. There …
Platforms for Sustainable Food Production
Research courtesy of the Blockchain Research Institute explores how the blockchain will be the foundational technology of the multi-sided technology platforms of the future. In this case study, a …
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NIST Wants Your Input Now on Two Strategic Challenges: Adversarial Machine Learning and Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
OODA CEO Matt Devost featured the advent of adversarial machine learning in his keynote at OODAcon 2022. In recent conversations with OODA Senior Advisor and Network Member Chris Ward, we discussed …