The near term opportunities and risks of the space economy and Space Force, innovation, and national security were discussed at length at OODAcon 2023. We return here to the two panels from the …
Nations Agree to Reign in Commercial Spyware- How Serious Are They?
Recently, more than 35 nations have signed a new international agreement to collaborate on reigning in the “hacker for hire” commercial market, in which private interests sell tools and services to …
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Globalization Transformed: Where Should Your Organization “Nearshore” and/or “Friendshore”?
Various perspectives - on Latin American nearshoring and Indo-Pacific "friendshoring" with allied nations in an effort to secure and shorten global supply chains - as well as the emergence of "China …
Decontrol AI to Accelerate Solutions
In a previous post we asked "Is the US Government Over-Regulating Artificial Intelligence?" We followed it with some historical context and a summary of today's government controls in "Regulations on …
What is the Defense Industrial Base Consortium?
The Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) was also used recently by the Department of Defense (DoD) to award Advanced Technology International (ATI) "to serve as the consortium manager for the Defense …
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Bioengineering Beyond Health
In previous posts in this series (see the OODA Special Report: Executive’s Guide To the Revolution in Biology and Bioengineering, Health and Business) we reviewed foundational knowledge on …
DoD launches the OTA-Funded Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Investment Program: Seeks Industry Proposals
For the seasoned government contractor and acquisitions professional, the not very tightly held secret is the Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) is the only formal mechanism currently available for the …
Rise of the Robots: Breakthroughs in Humanoid Robotics and the Dawn of Embodied AI
Is your head still spinning from all the AI news of late? It will all seem so quaint when the useful humanoid robots arrive. This post tracks some of the recent breakthroughs in humanoids, with a …
What is the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer?
For many company's in the commercial space sector, "Low earth orbit (LEO) is the initial crucial step", observed Space Tango CEO Sita Sonty in a panel at OODAcon 2023, "Our company’s business model is …
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What Does CYBER COM 2.0 Look Like?
Recent reporting indicates that U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is in the middle of restructuring the organization and the forces that support it in order to best position the command to …