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• Defense Business Brief: Drone boats; CNO’s fighting instructions; FMS reform

  11-02-2026 19:00 via defenseone.com
  Drone boat makers say they’re ready for the U.S. Navy to start testing their wares.“I don't think anyone questions whether unmanned has a place in the fleet architecture,” Blue Water Autonomy CEO Rylan Hamilton told Defense One. “It's really: ‘How long is it going to take to get some of these vessels out into the fleet and operating, so the end user of the fleet can really figure out how they want to use them and how many they actually want?’” Speak
  
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• The D Brief: More borderland, militarized; Every soldier a drone pilot; USAF hones hub-and-spoke basing; El Paso airport briefly closed; And a bit more.

  11-02-2026 17:34 via defenseone.com
  The U.S. military is taking control of more Texas land, citing “security operations along the U.S. southern border,” Defense One’s Thomas Novelly reported Tuesday. The seizure has raised questions among experts who note that border crossings have already plummeted and that charges stemming from the militarization of federal lands have been thrown out by judges.What’s new: Nearly 200 more miles of the U.S. border with Mexico have been placed under Air Force supervision, en
  
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• With an eye on China, Air Force hones its hub-and-spoke approach to basing

  11-02-2026 08:03 via defenseone.com
  JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—Today’s Air Force leaders aren’t axing quite all of the previous administration’s efforts to prepare for a possible fight with China. Service leaders are continuing to implement Agile Combat Employment—among other things, a hub-and-spoke approach to basing—the service’s undersecretary said last week.“We cannot just project force and operate out of our main operating bases,” Matthew Lohmeier told a small
  
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• NATO innovation chief: Alliance must speed up, or risk Russian invasion

  11-02-2026 07:56 via defenseone.com
  Deterring a Russian attack depends not just on NATO's military forces, but on proof that alliance members can bring new technology to the fight as quickly as Moscow, Adm. Pierre Vandier, who leads NATO’s Allied Transformation Command, said Tuesday in Washington.Vandier, like other military leaders and operators, said Ukrainian forces have illustrated the value of not just buying new technology, but continuously reinventing it at the front lines. But, he said, Russia has learned the sa
  
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• The US military is taking formal control of more Texas borderland

  11-02-2026 01:55 via defenseone.com
  Nearly 200 more miles of the U.S. border with Mexico have been placed under Air Force supervision, enabling wider use of military force and heftier charges against people crossing illegally into the country. But experts wonder why the step is being taken as crossings plummet and heightened charges are thrown out by judges.Last June, Pentagon leaders announced that they would take charge of land along the final 250 miles of the Rio Grande, which had been administered by State Department employees
  
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• The US military is taking control of more Texas borderland

  11-02-2026 01:55 via defenseone.com
  Nearly 200 more miles of the U.S. border with Mexico have been placed under Air Force supervision, enabling wider use of military force and heftier charges against people crossing illegally into the country. But experts wonder why the step is being taken as crossings plummet and heightened charges are thrown out by judges.Last June, Pentagon leaders announced that they would take charge of land along the final 250 miles of the Rio Grande, which had been administered by State Department employees
  
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