In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest Capt Chris Clark - the Marine Corps Artificial Intelligence Lead in the Marine Corps Deputy C

Links:

-(USMC Fellowships) https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4315247/fy26-artificial-intelligence-fellowship-programs/

-https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4325857/update-to-maradmin-46025-fy26-artificial-intelligence-fellowship-programs/ 

-(Private Sector Solutions) https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-s-eagleeye-puts-mommandant for Information Service Data Office to discuss Marine Corps AI.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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ission-command-and-ai-directly-into-the-warfighter-s-helmet/ 

-(Inference at the Edge) https://research.ibm.com/blog/northpole-ibm-ai-chip 

Kurzgesagt video on AI Slop AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet 

In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guests Cols Russ Belt and Kevin Stepp, the II MEF and I MEF G-6s.  They continue the discussion started by Col Matt Schroer on Episode 122, and LtCols Berdela and Henderson on Episode 123 about the future of communications formations. 

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In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guests Josh Stiefel and LTG (ret) Edward Cardon, the architects of CSIS’ Cyber Force project. 

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Links:

CSIS announcement:  https://youtu.be/f-u_P9yp6AI?si=ykRebsVoEtFC3BkP

CSIS 16 Sept panel:  https://www.csis.org/events/launch-commission-us-cyber-force-generation

McCrary Institute: Cyber Force, ROI, and the Case for Reform with Ed Cardon & Josh Stiefel

What should leaders take from Brickstorm, a 150-year-old company felled by one password, and an easy Microsoft global-admin misstep—plus how agent-to-agent payments could evolve? In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle connect the dots for you. Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-brickstorm-malware-used-to-steal-us-orgs-data-for-over-a-year/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/how-one-bad-password-ended-158-year-old.html?m=1don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Links:

https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/

https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/understanding-a2a-ap2-protocols-builder-guide

Continuing the conversation from Episode 122 with Col Matt Schroer, The Phoenix Cast hosts John, Rich, and Kyle sit down with Glenn Berdela and John Henderson—Commanding Officers of 2d Network Battalion and 8th Communications Battalion—to explore where communications formations are headed next.

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In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest Col Matt Schroer - Enterprise and Expeditionary Communications Branch Head, Deputy Commandant for Information (DC I), Information Command, Control, Communications and Computers (IC4).  They discuss the future of Marine Corps communications and some of the work being done to move the Marine Corps enterprise forward. 

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest LtCol Brian Kerg - Commanding Officer of Comm Squadron 38 to discuss the basics of a Communications Squadron, and an upcoming competition that MWCS-38 will be having - Thunderstruck.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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Links:

ThunderStruck Announcement on LinkedIn: https://rb.gy/19d6y2

ThunderStruck Announcement from ‘Do You Even Comm, Bro?’ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVcy-msnoM/?hl=en

MWCS-38 Homepage: https://www.3rdmaw.marines.mil/Units/MACG-38/MWCS-38/

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-20: Aviation Operations https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCWP%203-20%20Formerly%20MCWP%203-2.pdf?ver=2017-10-11-094942-787

MWCS-38 at Project Convergence Capstone 5: https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/14/marines-accomplish-two-communications-firsts-at-armys-project-convergence/

MWCS-38 Developing the Comm-Sensor Integration Team: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/492346/project-convergence-capstone-5-returns-california-expands-indo-pacific-aor

Marine Corps Aviation Learning Management System (MCALMS): https://mcalms.usmc.mil/

Maneuver Chess: Integrating Think and Fight Drills into Military Training:  https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/november/maneuver-chess-integrating-think-and-fight-drills-military

Internal MWCS-38 Super Squad Competition review on LinkedIn :  

https://shorturl.at/6c9Gi

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle discuss MCP, and MCP vulnerabilities, and GPU Hammer.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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Links:

MCP - 

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/supercharging-aws-database-development-with-aws-mcp-servers/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=DBA_AWS_for_Data&sc_publisher=LINKEDIN&sc_country=global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&sc_category=Amazon%20Q&linkId=835893819

Vulnerabilities - 

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/critical-vulnerability-in-anthropics.html

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/gpuhammer-new-rowhammer-attack-variant.html

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle discuss AI 2027.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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Links:

https://ai-2027.com/

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/new-research-shows-openai-s-la-l4Sns0ZRR6K7266VFz6HuA

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alignment_Problem_Machine_Learning_a/Lh_WDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

https://www.nist.gov/caisi

https://fedscoop.com/trump-administration-rebrands-ai-safety-institute-aisi-caisi/

https://www.amazon.com/Alignment-Problem-Machine-Learning-Values/dp/0393635821

https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598 

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Wave-Technology-Twenty-first-Centurys/dp/0593593952 

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Machine-Team-Artificial-Intelligence-Revolutionize/dp/B0948LGS3K

https://www.csis.org/podcasts/ai-policy-podcast

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest Robert Teller and they talk through some of the scarier sides of AI.

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