The New Battlespace: Economic Networks, AI and Modern Targeting

Strider Technologies and Carahsoft are excited to invite you to join us for our SOF Week 2026 Executive Briefing Series! 

Economic risk is now part of the battlespace—and the war with Iran has made that clear. In just weeks, we’ve seen how targeting energy infrastructure, trade routes like the Strait of Hormuz and global supply chains can create strategic effects on par with kinetic operations—disrupting economies, driving inflation and shaping decision-making at the national level.

At the same time, the conflict has reinforced a harder truth: the U.S. is not facing a single adversary, but an interconnected ecosystem—linking Iran, Russia, China and North Korea—operating across shared economic, technological and intelligence networks. These are not isolated targets; they are distributed systems designed to obscure, absorb and adapt.

This talk reframes targeting for that reality. It examines why traditional approaches break down in a world of fragmented intelligence and exploding OSINT, where the critical signals already exist—but remain disconnected. It introduces Strider’s agentic OS and shows how it turns global data into operational advantage—mapping hidden networks, identifying points of leverage and enabling both offensive and defensive targeting across the full economic battlespace.