Bob Gourley
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Washington, DC, United States
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Gain Powerful Insights Into The Future With OODA Loop's Technology Tracking
In a continuation of our journey to bring the best, most actionable technology content to enterprise decision-makers we have merged our research and reporting activities into the OODAloop.com site (both CTOvision.com and OODAloop.com are owned and operated by OODA LLC). CTOvision will focus only on one small niche, a vision for a technology enabled future. […] More → Read More
CTOvision and OODA: Big Changes Coming Soon
In a continuation of our journey to bring the best, most actionable technology content to enterprise decision-makers we are merging our research and reporting activities into the OODAloop.com site (both CTOvision.com and OODAloop.com are owned and operated by OODA LLC). This will give our community access to the same technology summaries we currently produce as → Read More
Give Your Career A Boost By Learning From Experienced Decision Makers
Our video and audio podcast, the OODAcast, provides content that can help accelerate your career and improve your decision making. The series is based on interviews of some of the greatest most accomplished enterprise technologists we can find. We ask questions designed to pull out lessons applicable to accelerating the career of any professional. We → Read More
Announcing Open 3D Engine (O3DE)
Amazon has shifted its Lumberyard game engine to open source. This is big news not just for the gaming industry, but for any industry that can benefit from 3D modeling, 3D simulation, 3D planning/design.For more see: more see : Amazon Web Services aka AWS. → Read More
OODA on Mitigating Cyber Risks In The Age of Continuous Crisis
In early May we began a discussion with our OODA Network members that started with an observation. About six months prior we had been through the Solar Winds attack, which from our perspective was clearly one of the most damaging attacks/espionage operations in history. Soon after that, the attack series named Hafnium by Microsoft was → Read More
CTOs: Please help keep the government from wasting money by improving their build vs buy decisions
A request to all who read this: Consider how you can personally help improve US Federal Government IT. One way everyone can help is to keep the dialog up on the need to improve and to shed light on some of the best examples of government IT success so those can be seen as exemplars → Read More
Store of Value Market Cap
This page is a bit of a test reference, to see if the data comes in handy regarding tracking the move of Ethereum and Bitcoin as stores of value compared to Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium.The data comes from a Google sheet with scripts designed to automatically pull data in: → Read More
Summary of the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA): Bipartisan, Bicameral Proposal For Action
The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, passed into law on 8 June 2021. It authorizes $110 Billion for basic and advanced technology research over a five year period. It includes investment in: Artificial intelligence and machine learning High performance computing, semiconductors, and advanced computer → Read More
Any Firm That Wants To Serve Defense Intelligence Missions Needs To See This
The video at this link is from the 11 June 2021 House Armed Services Committee meeting. This includes testimony and questions and answers at the subcommittee on intelligence and special operations, this session is focused on FY22 Defense Intelligence Enterprise Posture. Purpose: The Subcommittee will receive testimony on the Department's intelligence strategies, policies, and programs. → Read More
Update On Palantir Gotham for Defense Decision Making
This video succinctly captures insights into ways the Palantir Gotham framework supports decision-making at all levels of an organization. Video shares some of how data challenges in complex national security and defense domains are being addressed and walks through a scenario on how bringing all the right data together can improve decision-making. The scenario in → Read More
Making Sense of the Competitive Environment
OODA members have access to a wide range of premium content and research designed to enable optimal decisions in competitive situations. For speed of access members can use the search function or can find relevant research based on the categorization below: Cybersecurity Sensemaking: Strategic intelligence to inform your decisionmaking The OODA leadership and analysts have → Read More
The US Cyber Games: More Important For Humanity Than The Olympics
I love the Olympics. They are a source of hope for a future when nation's will spend more time collaborating on how to achieve a more prosperous future where human rights and liberty is universally accepted. But meanwhile, the interconnectivity of our IT and presence of adversaries in cyberspace is threatening our pursuit of liberty → Read More
Zero Trust Software: Polymorphing for Linux White Paper 2021
The goal of zero trust designs is to stop attacks before they occur. Here is a favored approach by a team of experienced professionals we know and trust, LP3. Behind every major hack—OPM, Equifax, BlueCross, WannaCry, Target, Home Depot, Sony, WhatsApp, you name it—is a bug the hackers exploited. It’s impossible to fix every bug: → Read More
Using Attack, Detect and Respond Tools To Mature Cybersecurity
Security can be enhanced and major risks mitigated by realistic threat emulation. This is needed now more than ever. Professionals in the security community except it as a given that we should all raise defenses, but prepare for breach. Raising defenses means checking for gaps so appropriate controls can be applied. And preparing for breach → Read More
Bill Vass Presents On The Extended Cloud, AWS powers edge-to-cloud applications
Bill Vass is someone I regard as “The CTO’s CTO.” He is a business and technology leader who creates visions and marshals resources to turn those visions into reality. He […] → Read More
Opportunity for companies in the national Security Space to Sponsor Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation Event
Please join others in the tech community gathering at the Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation‘s (DIMF) annual Tech Talk. The DIMF is a non-profit organization which funds scholarships for the children […] → Read More
ElasticON Public Sector US Federal on April 13: For any organizations with a desired to optimize data
The virtual ElasticON Public Sector US Federal on April 13. This is a great event for anyone in government who wants to learn best practices from peers and industry leaders […] → Read More
Bitcoin now at $1 Trillion Dollar Market Cap
Just 6 days ago we were pointing out the rise of Bitcoin, which at the time was at number 9 on the list of top global assets. It has now moved to number 9 and achieved a total market cap of $1T Here is a screen grab from 8marketcap.com Next big flip, One day soon Bitcoin will be a bigger store of value than Silver! For more see: → Read More
Simple Reference To Top Assets By Market Cap: Useful context on one basic metric of economic heft
The site at CompaniesMarketCap.com provides a simple list of the world’s largest companies by market capitalization. This is the value of publicly listed companies. This is an easy calculation to […] → Read More
Today Every Company Buys Electricity, Tomorrow Every Company Will Buy Ethereum
If you were amazed at the moves by MicroStrategy and Tesla into Bitcoin, just wait till the really big companies start shifting part of their assets into this digital store […] → Read More