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Phoenix Cast

Task Force Phoenix 142 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

Phoenix Cast, produced by Task Force Phoenix, explores cybersecurity, technology, and innovation issues within the military. The podcast covers how military organizations address digital threats, adopt emerging technologies, and drive innovative solutions. Each episode offers insights relevant to defense and security professionals.

Episodes

Snapping In (Part 1)
Snapping In (Part 1) Aug 21, 2026 01:04:00 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle come back to the Every Marine an AI Rifleman idea and finally answer the fair criticism they got the first time around: cool, but how? Kyle lays out five moves he thinks the Marine Corps could pull off in a single month (words, tools, training, trainers, and leaders), starting with a scrappy, heavily versioned pub that actually defines wh
AI Finds a Way
AI Finds a Way Jul 30, 2026 00:44:04 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle break down a genuinely wild story: an experimental OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox. Running without the usual cybersecurity guardrails while attempting an exploit benchmark, the model decided the smartest move was to cheat — chaining known vulnerabilities, discovering a zero-day, escalating privileges across OpenAI’s own network, and final
Gen. Tim Haugh
Gen. Tim Haugh Jul 23, 2026 01:22:32 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle sit down with General Tim Haugh, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), the 19th Director of NSA and 4th Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of American cyber power. The general makes his case for keeping the dual hat, takes on the CSIS and FDD reports calling for an independent cyber service, and explains why C
MCCES (Murello & Shankar)
MCCES (Murello & Shankar) Jun 22, 2026 00:53:28 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, host John mentally travels back to the Marine Corps Communication Electronics School in 29 Palms, the place where the cast was basically born, to talk with Col Arun Shankar, MCCES’s commanding officer, and LtCol Steve Morello, who leads Communication Training Battalion. The conversation digs into how the comm community is shifting from being “just plumbers” to owni
Tailored Intelligence From the Deep: Inside Qintel
Tailored Intelligence From the Deep: Inside Qintel Jun 2, 2026 00:58:31 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, John and Rich sit down with Keith Mularski and Damon Mathews from Qintel. Keith is the former FBI agent who went undercover in DarkMarket as "Master Splyntr," eventually becoming a top-five spammer in the world and a "made man" in the cybercriminal underground before the operation culminated in 80+ arrests. Damon is a retired Marine CI/HUMINT of
Canvas Hack, Firefox Using Mythos & Dirty Frag
Canvas Hack, Firefox Using Mythos & Dirty Frag May 14, 2026 00:55:00 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle break down a packed week in cyber: the Canvas ed-tech breach by Shiny Hunters that hit 9,000 schools and 275 million records right at testing season (both of their kids' schools are scrambling to go non-digital), Firefox's eye-opening collaboration with Anthropic's Mythos model that surfaced 271 vulnerabilities in a single release fo
The Warrant Officer Part 2 - CW4 Justin Helphenstine
The Warrant Officer Part 2 - CW4 Justin Helphenstine Apr 24, 2026 01:24:06 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Rich — with Kyle sidelined by what Rich suspects was an AI-orchestrated exploit — welcome CW4 Justin Helphenstine, a U.S. Army cyber warrant officer with 22+ years of service and deep offensive cyber operations experience. The conversation digs into what Army cyber warrant officers actually do versus their Marine Corps counterparts, how the talent pi
Katie Moussouris & Project Glasswing
Katie Moussouris & Project Glasswing Apr 15, 2026 01:22:30 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle welcome Katie Moussouris — founder and CEO of Luta Security, creator of Microsoft’s first bug bounty program, and architect of Hack the Pentagon — to break down Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and what it means when an AI model can find hundreds of real-world vulnerabilities at scale. Katie walks through the staggering complexity of coordin
Kyle Kills Databases
Kyle Kills Databases Apr 6, 2026 00:59:00 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle dive into two cautionary tales from Kyle’s AI-powered workflow — one where he spent $70 proving that AI detection tools are fundamentally broken, and another where he nearly lost his entire CRM database to a vibe-coded update gone wrong. Kyle walks through his process of writing a Marine Corps Gazette article using AI as a drafting assistant, on
Gen AI Conference
Gen AI Conference Mar 24, 2026 01:09:25 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle break down the recent “hack” of McKinsey’s internal AI platform Lilly — where a security startup’s automated agent gained full root access through unsecured API endpoints in under two hours — sparking a lively debate on what actually constitutes a hack and why zero trust architecture still matters more than ever. The crew covers exciting
Every Marine an AI Rifleman
Every Marine an AI Rifleman Mar 4, 2026 01:01:52 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle dive into a passionate debate about why the military needs to stop relying on a single "AI guy" in every unit and instead adopt an "every Marine an AI rifleman" mentality — training all service members in AI fundamentals the same way every Marine learns basic marksmanship. Kyle breaks down what AI "marksmanship&qu
Clawd & Order: AI in the Wild
Clawd & Order: AI in the Wild Feb 12, 2026 01:08:07 In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle break down the rapidly evolving world of agentic artificial intelligence through the story of Clawd—also known as Molt and now OpenClaw. They explain what AI agents are, how tools like Claude Code and full-system agents are changing the way humans interact with machines, and why this shift is both powerful and potentially risky. The hosts

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