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Decision Making
Published in Matthew L. Moseley, Ignition, 2021
The OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) was created by Air Force Colonel John Boyd, a military strategist who used it for combat operations. Although he never wrote a book about the process, his OODA Loop was held in high regard within the military. In 1976, he published a crisp paper about the decision-making process called “Destruction and Creation.” He wrote, “The activity is dialectic in nature generating both disorder and order that emerges as a changing and expanding universe of mental concepts matched to a changing and expanding universe of observed reality.” Boyd showed how, “To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning.” He argued that we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to both shape and be shaped by a changing environment. We can’t avoid this kind of destruction of our ingrained patterns and creation of new ways of thinking if we are to survive on our own terms. If we are to learn and grow. His overarching goal was “to improve our capacity for independent action.”
Cyber threat on critical infrastructure
Published in Paolo Gardoni, Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2018
Omar Kammouh, Gian Paolo Cimellaro
In this work, more attention is given to the OODA loop and its application to cybersecurity. The OODA loop was developed by the military strategist Colonel John Boyd and applied to combat operations process. According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a cycle of observe-orient-decide-act that can be infinitely repeated. The quicker this cycle is followed, the quicker can be the reaction to an event, which allows gaining advantage over the opponent. Even for cybersecurity, the ability to observe and react to threats more rapidly than the attacker can significantly enhance the network security of the user. Taking the OODA loop one step further and overlaying the NIST based security controls, it is possible to create an effective Cybersecurity plan (Protiviti 2015). Figure 19.4 introduces the different phases of the OODA loop with a brief explanation for each of them.
Military optoelectronics
Published in P. Dakin John, G. W. Brown Robert, Handbook of Optoelectronics, 2017
Surveillance, target acquisition, and weapon aiming systems aim to help their users by allowing them to detect and engage the enemy. Advantage goes to the side that can complete the OODA loop faster and more consistently. If EO sensors help their user to win, it clearly makes sense to try to reduce their effectiveness, to prevent or delay detection, to make classification more difficult or impossible, to deny the enemy accurate tracking information. The four primary methods for this are camouflage, decoys, jamming, and obscurants.
Information Fusion Applied in EV’s Intelligent Integrated Station
Published in Electric Power Components and Systems, 2019
Da Xie, Songtao Yu, Yanchi Zhang, Jun Tai, Zhaohui Yu
In late 1970s, John Boyd created the OODA model of real-time decision-making, and since then it has been adopted by other military services and large commercial organizations. The OODA loop consists of four phases: Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. In his later work, Boyd developed the OODA loop into a more general form of winning and losing. OODA loop is a practical real-time decision-making frame in litigation, business, law enforcement and military strategy. The operation of EV station involves real-time balances of power supply and demand, where the OODA can be applied in the EV station energy management to achieve optimized charging/discharging strategy. This later version of the OODA loop is illustrated in Figure 2 [16].