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About OODA Emerging international security challenges require new ways of thinking, new analytical approaches, and new tools if we are to be adequately prepared to maintain our social integrity and social security in the coming decades.
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Mission Areas Our core mission areas include:
  • International Security
  • Homeland Security
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
  • Intelligence
  • Technology and Innovation
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OODA Tools OODA provides a number of tools for our user community, including:
  • OODAwiki – a research and reference wiki environment
  • OODAspace – a secure collaboration and project management space
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GroupIntel Network The GroupIntel Network was one of OODA’s first major initiatives to promote information sharing and intelligence collaboration amongst state, local, federal and private sector security and intelligence professionals.
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What is a Think Tank 2.0?

iStock_000009458297XSmallThe term Think Tank 2.0 was first coined by security expert Mike Tanji in this blog post and argues for the formation of digitally distributed think tanks to address modern international security and policy issues.  The OODA approach is decidedly virtual in order to expand the scope and depth of our research projects.  It is an approach the OODA Founders are quite comfortable with, having started a Think Tank 2.0 in 1996 with the formation of the TRC.

OODA draws upon the lessons of nearly 15 years of operation with a commitment to developing resources that reside in the public domain.  For example, OODA utilizes Web 2.0 technologies and cutting-edge collaboration spaces to advance our mission.  It also extends the OODA network into any location that has an Internet connection which enhances the diversity and experience of our research teams.  Full Story

 
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NO DNI love for uGOV

In the finger-pointing-fest after 9/11, the US Intelligence Community was blamed for failing to “connect the dots.” As incomplete a description of the intelligence analysis process as that may be, it brought to the fore a point that many of us in the business had been complaining about for years: stovepipes and parochial interests inhibited [...]

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Toward Operational Art for Policing

The military, facing a complex and intractable mixture of “wicked problems” on the battlefield, has responded with a doctrinal revolution in the production and practice of operational theory.  But most police agencies don’t incorporate the “operational level of maneuver” into their planning and concept of operations.   We face a constellation of complex “high-intensity policing” problems [...]

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