Officer

The OODA Loop: Training to Reduce the Decision-Making Duration

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 ...
Harvard Medical School

Agentic AI's OODA Loop Problem

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Barath Raghavan argue that the OODA (observe, orient, decide, act) loop for real-time decision making poses problems for agentic AI. "The fundamental problem," they note, ...
Aviation Week

Opinion: Unmanned Platforms Need Humans In The Loop

One wonders what airpower strategist John Boyd might have made of his oft-cited decision cycle without a human at the heart of the observation, orientation, decision and action (OODA) loop. With ...
The National Interest

OODA Loop

The Department of Defense is working to achieve improvements in networking, connectivity, and cross-domain warfare goals. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks recently signed the Joint All ...