Threat Status Podcast

LISTEN: Inside the mission to build President Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’

Andrea Inserra, president of the global defense sector at Booz Allen, joins the show to break down plans for the "Golden Dome" missile shield and the rapid expansion of AI in military and national security applications.

April 4, 2025

LISTEN: Why are federal officials using Signal?

Retired Gen. Robert Brooks Brown, the former head of U.S. Army Pacific, joins the show from the Association of the United States Army's Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.

March 28, 2025

LISTEN: How dangerous is superintelligent AI?

Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, joins the show to talk about superintelligent AI, its internal value systems, and its potential ramifications for U.S. national security.

March 21, 2025

LISTEN: AI-driven extremism, U.S.-Russia talks, and the DOGE ‘wrecking ball’

Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, joins the show to discuss AI-driven extremism, President Trump's possible wedge strategy to divide Russia and China, and the "wrecking ball" that Elon Musk and the DOGE have taken to the federal government.

March 14, 2025

LISTEN: Is Trump’s hardball Ukraine strategy working?

Johnathon Miller, vice president of security operations at Lumifi Cyber, joins the show to talk about the evolution of ransomware attacks, U.S. offensive cyber operations, and more.

March 7, 2025

LISTEN: An inside look at why President Trump fired top military officers

Robert Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to talk about the firing of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. C.Q. Brown and President Trump's leadership overhaul at the Pentagon.

February 28, 2025

Threat Status podcast: Inside the IDEX 2025 weapons expo

Guy joins the show from the United Arab Emirates and offers an inside look at the major IDEX 2025 weapons expo.

February 21, 2025

LISTEN: Does USAID deserve to be saved?

Richard Crespin, CEO of the international consulting firm CollaborateUp and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, joins the show to talk about the future of USAID and American "smart power" projection around the world.

February 14, 2025

LISTEN: Is the DOGE a threat to national security?

Retired Navy Capt. Gene Moran joins the show to talk about the changing nature of the defense industry and what the Defense Department needs to do to revamp its contracting and acquisition processes.

February 7, 2025

LISTEN: Will China beat the U.S. to Mars?

Dean Cheng, senior advisor to the China program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, joins the show to discuss China's space program, its military strategy in space, and whether it could beat the U.S. in the race to get to Mars.

January 31, 2025

Threat Status podcast: Will President Trump deploy U.S. troops to Mexico?

Stephen Dinan joins the show to break down all of the president's executive orders on illegal immigration.

January 24, 2025

LISTEN: Should Americans fear the ‘tech-industrial complex?’

Rand Waldron, vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure product development, joins the show to talk about the impact of AI on the military and intelligence community, the future of major U.S. government cloud contracts, and much more.

January 17, 2025

LISTEN: Is America losing the hypersonic weapons race?

Michael Johns, senior vice president of the company Kratos, joins the show to discuss U.S. hypersonic weapons development and whether the nation is still lagging behind China and Russia.

January 10, 2025

LISTEN: Job No. 1 for Trump, defending the U.S. homeland

Retired Adm. Mark Montgomery joins the show to break down the key foreign policy priorities for the incoming Trump administration, including the need for an overhaul of U.S. homeland missile defense.

January 3, 2025

LISTEN: The TikTok fight reaches its crescendo; and a look at U.S.-China space competition

Bill Woolf, president and CEO of the Space Force Association, joins the show to discuss U.S.-China space competition and the interplay between the Pentagon and private industry in space.

December 20, 2024

LISTEN: Syria, drones, space economy and U.S.-China competition

Steve Blank, co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, joins the show to talk about U.S.-China military industrial competition and much more.

December 13, 2024

LISTEN: How much waste and inefficiency will the DOGE find at the Pentagon?

Trey Coleman joins the show to discuss how the military should use AI and whether Mr. Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, will call for huge cuts inside the Pentagon.

December 6, 2024

LISTEN: Is the government lying about UFOs?

Rep. Nancy Mace joins the show to discuss whether the federal government is hiding the truth about UFOs and if adversaries such as China or Russia could be operating cutting-edge drone surveillance programs in American skies.

November 29, 2024

LISTEN: What does Raisi’s death mean for Iran?

Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy joins the show to talk about what's next for Iran after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.

May 24, 2024

LISTEN: Are the threats from Russia, Iran and ISIS-K overblown?

Justin Logan of the Cato Institute joins the show for an in-depth conversation about American foreign policy and whether Russia, Iran and ISIS-K truly pose a threat to the U.S. homeland.

May 3, 2024