by Joey Middleton | Mar 19, 2025 | SOF Innovation
by Jeremiah “Lumpy” Lumbaca In the year 2084, thirty-something years after the Sky Global Algorithmic Network (Sky-GAN) solidified its grip, controlling everything from resource allocation to thought patterns through personalized data streams, the quiet...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 11, 2025 | SOF Innovation
By Richard Byno The humid air of the South China Sea clung to my skin as I peered through my binoculars, scanning the horizon. Our team was tracking a vessel suspected of transporting critical technology to a hostile nation. Suddenly, our target’s signature vanished...
by Joey Middleton | Feb 20, 2025 | SOF Innovation
by Laura Heckmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Special Operations Command released a strategy document last year titled the “SOF Renaissance,” it emphasized a framework ‘“tailor made” to face the challenges of a changing strategic landscape. But one area where the command...
by Joey Middleton | Feb 17, 2025 | SOF Innovation
by Curtis L. Fox Presently, United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) claims that Special Forces conducts Unconventional Warfare, Foreign Internal Defense, Direct Action, Special Reconnaissance, Counter-Insurgency, Counterterrorism, Information...
by Joey Middleton | Feb 6, 2025 | SOF Innovation
The Pentagon’s AI acceleration hub recently moved to operationally prototype custom, commercial machine learning models that can monitor and assess adversarial media and associated data to support U.S. national security missions and swiftly supply predictions based on...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 30, 2025 | SOF Innovation
by Seth G. Jones The Issue The U.S. government has not adequately leveraged the commercial sector to conduct irregular warfare against China, Russia, Iran, and other competitors because of significant risk aversion, slow and burdensome contracting and acquisitions...
