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Across 2025, cybersecurity evolved from a domain of incident response into a core arena of geopolitical competition, AI acceleration, and systemic risk.
A year-end review, organized by major themes as well as recaps of monthly federal activity over the course of 2025.
In her most recent essay for Foreign Affairs, the former CISA Director argues that insecure code and poor design drive persistent vulnerabilities, and that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the only realistic path to systemic resilience.
MissionLink has announced the graduates of its 2025 Cohort, spotlighting a group of dual-use technology companies positioned at the intersection of innovation and national security. Spanning AI, cyber defense, data intelligence, space, and emerging technologies, the cohort underscores the growing role of private-sector innovation in addressing mission-critical challenges.
Cryptocurrency has crossed a strategic threshold: what began as a speculative financial innovation has accelerated into a contested/persistent system shaping cybercrime, sanctions evasion, statecraft, financial enforcement, and global monetary competition.
This compilation brings together videos and session summaries from OODAcon 2025, pairing concise takeaways with visual capture of the ideas that define the next phase of technological acceleration.
Energy has become the limiting factor for technological acceleration: no longer a background constraint. Energy is rapidly becoming the primary strategic asset shaping AI, national security, industrial competitiveness, and geopolitical alignment.
Weaponizing the Private Sector: A Cautionary Tale for Private Sector Risk and Global Norms By now, it’s clear that the incoming cyber strategy crafted under President Donald Trump is poised to reshape not just how the United States defends its networks, but how it engages in cyberspace offensively, strategically, and institutionally. But beneath the rhetorical…
India has officially released a comprehensive national strategy, “Transforming India Into a Leading Quantum-Powered Economy: Vision 2035”, that aims to make the country one of the top three global quantum powers by 2035.
A new wave of U.S./U.K. sanctions and a global joint advisory on operational technology (OT) risks underscore a rapidly escalating campaign by pro-Russia hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure worldwide.
If you lead a startup that has technology capabilities that can contribute to the nation’s security I would like to bring your attention to a non-profit trade association called MissionLink. MissionLink is a non-profit that seeks to enhance our nation’s national security by helping tech startup C-suite leaders better understand how to serve national security…
OODA Network Member Bill Vass (Booz Allen Chief Technology Officer) and Booz Allen SVP Munjeet Singh showed how physical AI, digital proving grounds, and agentic autonomy are converging to reshape real-world robotics, test ranges, and national-security missions.
At OODAcon 2025, former CIA Directorate of Science and Technology chief Dawn Meyerriecks delivered a blunt warning: America’s strategic advantage will not come from scale, but from adaptability – and the nation is losing ground on talent, industrial capacity, and economic security faster than policymakers realize.
The next frontier of AI isn’t bigger models – it’s systems that act. At OODAcon 2025, leaders across cybersecurity, finance, and industrial operations warned that agentic AI is accelerating faster than organizational readiness, creating unprecedented opportunities for speed and resilience – and new fault lines for risk.
OODA network members have access to an extensive repository of research and analysis on the impact of technology on geopolitics, business strategy and cybersecurity. This human generated, expert vetted information created to inform decisions of our membership, and has always been available by both search and topical categorization. These insights now form the foundation of…
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