OODA loop

To understand the present, you often need to understand the past. Dr. McGough brings the lessons of the past alive and draws the parallels to the present. Leadership Under Fire: Lessons from the Battlefield and Lessons from the White House illuminate the lessons of the past and place them squarely in the context of today. Although I have known Dr. McGough for nearly two decades, my leadership team and I have worked with him for the past six years. As the Superintendent of Schools for a school district

Reflecting on the information that has been covered in this period, I found continuous improvement to be helpful. I have heard AFSO 21 before but never understood what it truly was. I now understand that it focuses on generating proficiency and improving combat capabilities through evaluation and problem solving. Also within continuous improvement, System 1 (Reactive Thinking) and System 2 (Reflective Thinking) was broken down in a way that I could understand. The way I understood it was System

The Ardennes Offensive was a German attack on the Allied western front on December 16th, 1944. This battle is widely known as the “Battle of the Bulge” because the German’s initial attack pushed the Allied front in the Ardennes region to the west, creating a bulge in the generally north to south running Allied western front. The Allied western front ran north to south, stretching from the northern part of Belgium down into the southern parts of France. The German’s main focus was an area called the

Orient, Observe, Decide and Act, through this loop speed are essential, the ability to be faster than the enemy, to outthink and out maneuver, is a key on the battlefield that can decide victory or failure. One key example of this was in WWII with General George S. Patton, during the battle of the

The evolution of air power theory and recent experience demonstrates that traditional and reactive forms of western responsiveness to world events has inhibited government ability to focus on long term planning and our ability to understand and shape the strategic environment. Instead of long-term contingency planning which can lay the groundwork for effective responses to unknown contingencies; we have instead found ourselves executing unconsidered and short-term actions based off hastily made decisions

Notes, 41(1), 1-6. A Comparison of Software/System Development Methods 2 A Comparison of Software/System Development Methods The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast two articles on software/system development life cycle (SDLC) methods, identify how these methods are applied to my current company and which one I believe is the most valuable. My ultimate goal is to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of what the SDLC is, highlight two methods, and then provide a way forward within

Training (OJT) to deliver the new training to the officers within the BUD/S class. The first class will target mission planning, teaching the officers how to use the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) and the Observe Orient Decide Action (OODA) Loop process of thinking. After the classes we will have the officers develop the dive operations planning and build the brief that will be presented to the second phase Officer in Charge (OIC) on all dives during the Final Training Exercise week.

Using Information and Information Technology in Policing Information Technology (IT) is the technology side of an information system. In order for police departments to be able to manage their resources in combating crime in their areas they will have to adapt to new technologies. One of these technologies is CompStat which stands for comparative statistics. CompStat made its first appearance in 1994 in New York City. Since then many police departments have implemented the CompStat system

What is Machine Learning and how it works? Machines leaning is basically a method of teaching computers to make predictions based on historical data. The computers then improve its internal programs using this data. To illustrate this let us consider the example of a normal email filter which automatically filters out spam emails from an inbox, this is possible as the email engine is programmed to learn to distinguish spam and non-spam messages. Over time as the program keeps on learning its performance

analytics, along with being fast and efficient in handling real time data (Payandeh, 2013). Business Intelligence consists of different tools to make better informed decisions with the data they have. Traditional BI were focused on the OO of the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) but the modern BI needs to directly integrate the Decide and Act since there is a