The OODA Loop—Observe, Orient, Decide, Act—is a continual process that helps improve decision-making speed in conflict situations. Training should focus on reducing the decision time within each phase ...

In the sphere of military science and doctrine, Col. John Boyd is a brute and fabled character. Boyd was an Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War who later went on to become revered as a blunt ...

The application of analytics to large data sets, sometimes referred to as “big data,” is still an emerging capability in the military. As a result, defense agencies and their industry partners have ...

Rapid change demands new approaches to leadership and strategy. This article brings together insights from experts who have ...

The way IBM sees it, artificial intelligence (AI) can help expedite the OODA loop — the decision-making cycle of observe, orient, decide and act theorized by U.S. Air Force Col. John Boyd. Speaking at ...

John Boyd forever changed the way the United States fights wars, both on the ground and in the air. This is rather impressive considering his own limited battlefield experience, as he just missed ...

The Air Force’s military superiority is centered around the service and individual airmen’s ability to ingest new information and act quickly and decisively. But the unending waves of data being ...

Both the accelerated execution of cyberattacks and an increased ability to, at machine speed, identify vulnerabilities for exploitation compress the time window that cybersecurity management has to ...