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The advantage goes to whoever orients first: OODAcon will help you do just that. (opens the original)
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John Boyd is best remembered for the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act loop, a brilliant way to approach any competitive situation. But Boyd didn’t just want you to run the loop. He wanted you to run it at a faster tempo than your competitor, rapidly improving and changing what you do faster than competitors can adjust, until every decision they make is based on a picture that’s already out of date.That’s what a disruptor is. There are disruptors in government today that must operate inside the decision
The September 2026 OODA Network Meeting: AI After the Frontier: Economics, Governance, and Offensive Cyber (opens the original)
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The September 2026 OODA Network Monthly Meeting ranged across the economics of artificial intelligence (AI), open-weight and sovereign models, autonomous intelligence workflows, the financial consequences of cyber incidents, AI existential-risk debates, AI governance, and the changing U.S. approach to offensive cyber operations.Note: This post captures content from the monthly OODA Network meeting and is therefore only for full OODA Network Members and is not available at the<a href="https://ood
OODAcon 2026: Strategic Orientation, the Geography of Innovation, and Mapping the Edge (opens the original)
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A strategic prologue to OODAcon 2026: Escape VelocityEscape velocity is not speed alone. It is the point at which technological capability, organizational design, trusted autonomy, and strategic clarity combine to produce compounding advantage.This post provides the strategic backdrop for the upcoming OODAcon 2026: Escape Velocity. The conference is designed around a hard pivot from diagnosing dis
20 Strategic Insights from the OODA Network in 2026 (opens the original)
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From Exponential Acceleration to Governable ActionThe following strategic Insights are derived from the “Collective OODA Loop” and Human Citadel organizational structure of The OODA Network - drawn from <sp
The August 2026 OODA Network Meeting: Autonomous Agents, Escalating Capability, and Unsettled Authority (opens the original)
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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. A Key conclusion: One of the greatest vulnerabilities of any system is arrogance of the human component.Note: This post captures content fr
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