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U.S. Forces Korea: Gen. Brunson Speaks on Deterrence and Partner Integration at 2026 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum
SEOUL, Korea, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Forces Korea issued the following speech by General Xavier Brunson:
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Oct. 14, 2026
Gen. Brunson Speaks on Deterrence and Partner Integration at 2026 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum
GEN Perkins: They got them to where they are now, so that you know the lens through which they look at this problem, and they'll talk a little bit about the problems they're dealing with when it comes to solving, partnering, and providing land power to a very wide and vast part of the world.
GEN Brunson: Thank you very much, sir. Hey, one of the things that I would also encourage ... Show Full Article SEOUL, Korea, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Forces Korea issued the following speech by General Xavier Brunson: * * * Oct. 14, 2026 Gen. Brunson Speaks on Deterrence and Partner Integration at 2026 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum GEN Perkins: They got them to where they are now, so that you know the lens through which they look at this problem, and they'll talk a little bit about the problems they're dealing with when it comes to solving, partnering, and providing land power to a very wide and vast part of the world. GEN Brunson: Thank you very much, sir. Hey, one of the things that I would also encourageeveryone to do is, as I look across the room here, there are a lot of faces that are familiar to me. They're only familiar to me because I'm a member of AUSA. So, if you haven't joined AUSA, join AUSA so that you can see these faces many, many times in the future, that'll be important to you. My name is Xavier Brunson. I currently command the United States Forces Korea, the United Nations Command, and Combined Forces Command, all on the Republic of Korea right now. I'm actually joined here today by one of my DCGs as well, my DCOM, General Sungmin Kim. So, everything that we do is intricately woven around the ROK-U.S. alliance. That alliance has stood for some 75 years, and it is an example or a paragon, if you will, of all that's right when folks work in alliance together. The problems that we solve are joint problems. They're not just U.S. problems. They're not just Republic of Korea problems, but they are as great opportunities for two nations to work in concert with one another in order to arrive at solutions that are beneficial for both countries. I'm thankful for the opportunity to be here, General Perkins, sir, and I'm glad to join my good friend and former desk mate Ron Clark, as well as the folks from Air, whose names are all on these chairs and thank you all for doing this for us too, man.
GEN Clark: Good afternoon. I'm Ron Clark. I'm the commander of U.S. Army Pacific. Much like General Brunson, he talked about the familiarity and the faces that are in the crowd. I think a lot of it's because you owe him money. And because he's joined by his deputy, I must acknowledge I'm joined by my command sergeant major Jason Schmidt and two of my deputies. J.B. Vowell and Giles Cornelia. So, if I were to fall at some point during this, yeah, we're throwing the Australian on the landmine. The thing I tell you about my personal experience, professional experience in this region, is that as the commander of USARPAC, which is the privilege of my professional life, I have spent 10 years as a soldier in the Pacific, I've spent four assignments as a general officer in the Pacific. I was the chief of staff at the headquarters I command now. I was the commander of the 25th Infantry Division, and then the chief of staff at U.S. PACOM, and now return to USARPAC. And what I would share with you that's unique about the problem set that we have is something that we'll talk about quite a bit, and Tara is going to really pull the string on this. Is the fact that we in the Pacific have to deal with a lot of things, and one of the things we have to deal with is that tyranny of distance, where we are physically located to where we need to be, and we'll talk more about that during the panel, but to have posture set forward in the theater is a must because our pacing threat, our adversary, has devised a strategy that is tied to anti-access area denial, and it's focused specifically on air and maritime threats. So our ability, as the U.S. Army's theater army in the Pacific, to provide a value proposition not just to the army but to the joint force as a foundational element, aligned with the theme of AUSA as the foundation of the joint force in the Pacific, to be able to provide the capabilities at the time and place of need to assist our joint partners to have windows of time or operations that can pulse into an access denied environment in air and Maritime, because on and from the land to be able to project capability is really what we're about. It's across all seven joint functions, and I look forward to having that discussion with you today.
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: Good afternoon to all of you. My name is Tara Murphy Dori. I'm the CEO of Air. We're an enterprise readiness company, and what that means is that we have built an AI-native software platform using agentic AI and a lot of data, some of it yours, some of the data that we bring to fundamentally overhaul the current state of military readiness, which is largely treated as a metric system or, in even worse cases, a stoplight chart, and really allow enterprises to attain and maintain a continuous state of being ready, and we work with the United States Army. We work with all the military services and across the U.S. national security sector to connect really four or five functional domains that we believe need to be interconnected in a technical way in order to achieve that continuously held state of readiness. Those are acquisition and production, sustainment, maintenance, and logistics. And I would just say that across my career, I have been working on aspects of that problem here. Pentagon as a civilian employee outside of the Pentagon in the private sector at Air for almost nine years now, and I would just note that throughout that entire time, I have relied on a number of great partnerships. AUSA is probably at the top, so I'm going to give General Smith and his organization. One final plug. I really appreciate being here today with 40,000 of my closest friends, your closest friends, I believe, as well as these unbelievable panelists and our moderators. So, thank you to AUSA. Thank you to all of you for joining, and I'm really looking forward to the conversation.
GEN Perkins: All right, Xavier, I think we'll start with you as somebody who lives and works on the peninsula where a threat is imminent. You know, fight tonight. I think was coined there as a phrase. How do our Ford Station Land Power forces enable joint operations and make extended deterrence possible? And the vice has spoken a number of times about endurance.
GEN Brunson: So, sir, if I were to really look at answering that question, I think about something that across our command we think of as the three kings, and those three kings are posture, protection, and then sustainment, and that falls directly in line with some of the things the Vice. We're going to hear from the Vice when he talks about how the army fights. And so, if you think about posture as being having this enviable position where your forces are located, with the right capabilities and the right capacities, as well as a will or a demonstrated will to use those things, that would be that component of deterrence by itself, and then when you look at protection, it's intuitively obvious to all here, both in and out of uniform. If you can protect yourself, you can stay somewhere and achieve some form of strategic, operational, even tactical endurance over the long haul. So that's important. And then if you can sustain yourself where you are, then, what that gives you the opportunity to do is to translate strategic movements to strategic maneuver, where you're achieving an effect in the land domain, in particular. And if you achieve those effects over a long period of time, that's how you guarantee yourself the ability to endure in the place where you are. Endurance itself is a factor that's built on the two before that. If you can have the right posture, if you can be protected in the place where you are, if you can sustain yourself in that place, you've achieved endurance, and that's the thing that land forces give us by virtue of our enviable posture across the region. So, a lot of times, I look to General Clark in his formation to help us with that, whether that be on the sustainment side, whether that be on the more martial aspects of things we do with fires, those things are all important and they're all born from United States Army Pacific. But I think chief among the things that we've got to recognize is that we, as a force, as a joint force have achieved enviable posture in places. We have to make sure the capabilities match where we are in those places in order to achieve endurance. I would finally close this by saying simply that we've got this network of friends, partners, and allies across the region that further enhance our ability to endure in the places where we are, and we've got to make sure we take best advantage, and I don't mean that in any pejorative sense at all. But we've got to take best advantage of the years of partnership that we built up across the region in order to endure in that space.
GEN Perkins: Yeah. So similar question to you, Ron, and we were talking about this actually this week at the FORSCOM conference, and then before we came out here, that sometimes there's a misunderstanding that somehow in the AOR it is only a maritime or air theater, and while the maritime and air component are extremely important, there's a misunderstanding about what land power provides in the theater, so as the USARPAC commander, you know what are those foundational land-based capabilities that you provide that ensure the joint force can project power and prevail.
GEN Clark: The way we think about our role as a foundational element for the joint force really is tied to our theater strategy, and it's to you know really take a look at the problem set and apply the right capabilities to it, you know along the lines of having the right plan. So, our responsibility to deliver warfighting capability at the place and time of our choosing is really tied to posture and how we think through what's known as the tyranny of distance. So, if you were to leave on a ship by surface from the west coast of the United States and travel to Taipei, it would take a month. If you were to leave from the port at Honolulu to Australia-it's 19 days. It's three weeks. So, from the point of strategic or operational warning to being able to muster forces, marshal them, deploy from port to port, and then move-it takes too long. You're late to need. So, the only way that we've been successful in the business of deterrence is to provide those courses at scale on the Asian Peninsula or on the Asian continent or inside the first and second island machine, so to deliver those combat-ready formations that are ready to fight tonight is mission one inside of our strategy. We have to strengthen our relationships with our allies and partners because our exercise program operation pathways, 54 exercises over the course of a year, allows us the opportunity to train with the partners and allies that General Brunson just talked about on their sovereign soil, at their invitation, to help build the readiness necessary to deter war, and if necessary, to fight and win, plain and simple. And then, third, our responsibility after we provide those trained and ready forces to deliver them to the fight, and we provide a strong ally and partner base. We have to ensure that we're able to assure our partners and allies of our ability to be able to get after the fight once we're there. So again, it's all tied to being in the spot that's necessary with the capability to be able to first deter war because that's our highest duty, and then to advance the posture that's necessary in order to make sure we have all the things that we need at a time and place of our choosing to beat that tactical warning problem of being able to move the things that are necessary into a place where they can make a real difference in the fight.
GEN Perkins: So, Tara, kind of pulling the thread that Ron talked about, when you take a look at the tyranny of both time and distance in this part of the world, what are some of the architectural and data sharing hurdles that are faced when you're trying to work through commercial joint coalition networks and make that all fill in that gap.
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: They are many, unfortunately. Although top of mind, I know for many leaders. So, the way that we look at the world often is with respect to this idea of getting to a more continuously active held state of readiness. You can't do that alone, and we heard that from both of you. This has to be connectivity with the military to the industrial base, down to suppliers, and also with allies and partners. Otherwise, we're constantly going to be in a reactive mode in terms of whatever is happening in the world, whether that is demand for the military to take action in an operational way, or it's simply pre-positioning in order to have that prepared readiness and overcome the distance tyranny that General Clark was just speaking about, and so core to being able to get away from silos and reactive, slow ways of communicating with each other. We have to have the speed of information sharing that we all benefit from in other aspects of our lives and work today. I would say that the biggest one that we often see when working with the Army or network challenges, we have over a dozen different environments stood up just to support what I would never say this to an investor, but you could think of as one single customer, the Department of War, and yet you have environments that are functionally enclaves to protect data from each other, it's remarkable. Now you add in multi-partner networks to talk to allies, and you could be in the same building, but it doesn't matter if you're riding on different networks. You may as well be in different cities. So, there's a tremendous challenge associated with networks and interoperability that impacts this, then let's say you can solve the network challenge. I would argue, and this is something that I worked on even many years ago when I was in the Pentagon classification, or more specifically, overclassification, as a business that supports the logistics and sustainment, warfighting sustainment functions for the Army. We do almost all of our work, or we support our users doing almost all of their work on NIPR and IL-5 and unclassified environments. And in fact, a huge part of what we're doing is providing tie-ins and immediate availability and visibility into things like what can you get out of the commercial sector in parts, for example, with maybe a three-day lead time instead of a 300-day lead time. You have to be able to hit the internet to do that, and we can do that in a secure way. But it is more challenging when you then need to push that to the fires mission on IL-6, and so everything that we can do as a national security enterprise to remove unnecessary overclassification, and I would just maybe emphasize that probably the single greatest thing we could do is drop no Ford everywhere we possibly can and make the default. Yeah, thank you. I thought I'd get a better reaction too, but it often is a default label to apply, and I think an unnecessary one. So those are just a couple of examples.
GEN Perkins: Very good. So, Xavier, one of the focuses of this panel is partner integration, and as the current commander of the UN command, that you lead a multinational coalition that actually has protected the armistice, I think, for over 70 years now. How does that coalition strengthen the U.S. relationship to that part of the world and the U.S. in general, specifically.
GEN Brunson: Yeah, sir. So one of the things that I think about often is many hands make easy work, and by that what I mean is you've got this host of nations, and whether it's me sending Command Sergeant Major Rob Bolmer out alongside the UN command, sending them down as far as New Zealand to talk to non-commissioned officers there, or whether it's us working closer to home with our good friends and partners across Europe that are members of the United Nations Command. There's one tie that remains there, and that's the emotion that comes from people who sent their youth, people in their youth, to defend a nation they hadn't seen, and as we come to the end of life of some of these great patriots who came to the peninsula years ago, I think it's oftentimes incumbent on those of us who remain to remind folks of the emotion that was born of decisions to send people to a conflict, and we spend a great deal of time trying to help folks remember that years ago you said you would do a thing, and the armistice is a constant reminder. It's the baseline for us to operate from, and when we look at that armistice, it says, "Should this fail, we'll come back. And a lot of times, what we do is we don't remind people of both the emotion that was tied to decisions made in the past, and we also don't provide them a structure from which to operate. So, we've taken great pains recently. You know, General Clark talks about the Pathways experience and the exercise program that happens across the Pacific. The more we can involve these partners and enrich their experience with substantive work, not just busy work, but substantive work that points to a true objective, the better served we are in the long haul. A great many times, the easy button is to just say, "Well, hey, just show up. But if we have people show up, we have to let them see our secret, no foreign war plans, and help them to understand that that everything that we do is built on requirements and expectations. The expectation of a partner is that they're going to be intimately involved in things you're doing. The requirement is we have to build the environment where that might be possible, and I think that that's how we meet not only our objectives as a nation, but we meet the objectives more importantly of those we call our allies, our partners, and our friends.
GEN Perkins: So, Ron, as the United States Army doctrine specifies, and as a former TRADOC commander, I had to get a little doctrine, or else they said they're going to cancel my retirement planning. We say that land power maneuvers to a position of advantage, and so as the commander of an AOR that spans 17 time zones, how do you maneuver to get a position of advantage for deterrent?
GEN Clark: Yes, sir. Thanks for that. 17 time zones, 52% of the Earth's surface, 60% of the Earth's population, 4 billion people, 25% of the world's land mass. So not just water, but 25% of the landmass. And I mentioned briefly pathways. Our efforts to campaign forward in the region with allies and partners, is really how we do that. The change for us as an army is capability. Now that we have true capability to operate across all domains today, placing that capability or those capabilities inside the first and second honor chamber, we can build joint interior lines. Provides for the joint force again an opportunity to be able to in crisis or conflict conduct post operations. But for us as an army, again building those lasting partnerships and relationships are what matters. So, for us, for instance, during a series of war games, now the Army has an opportunity-not just in Army war games, but in joint war games, and in one case, a maritime war game, where Army capability changed the outcome at a point in an exercise where it would have ended with, I wouldn't say us winning, but we prevailed. That was a change from us not having capability to be able to build the trust with the joint force to employ army, fires. Our ability to be able to see first, sense first, strike at a time and place of our choosing across multiple domains to protect, as General Brunson said, and to sustain the joint force. Because without the army, specifically logistics, whereas one of my mentors and good friends, General Honore, you know well, sir, would say the Army does logistics. He didn't say it, it's more of the Army does logistics, and that's true. So, our joint partners count on us, the Air Force, for agile combat employment. They cannot employ their exquisite capabilities in the manner of their choosing without us holding terrain and providing the sustainment that's necessary for them to be able to operate the Navy. They must replenish from the land. So, if we don't hold and secure ground for them to conduct the replenishment that's necessary to put the best maritime force in the history of the world into the fight, then they're not in the fight. Our ability to provide integrated air missile defense across the entirety of the region is an army capability that is leveraged by the joint force. So again, our efforts on and from land to be able to, sir, answer your question: the efficacy of the joint force of the army as foundational to the joint force is now being exercised exclusively out there in war games, and we've had very, very positive results. And what it does is it builds that trust with the joint force. So, when Admiral Koehler, the JTF commander in most of our OPLANs, has Major General Bernard Harrington, the commander of Seventh Infantry Division Multi Domain Command Pacific, sitting next to him, talking through how we can impact the enemy's decision calculus through all the domains-that makes a difference. And if we continue to build the reps and sets that are necessary to do that at scale, again, it's what gives our adversary pause. That's what allows us to deter, and it gives us again the ability to be able to fight and win when called upon.
GEN Perkins: Thanks. So, so Tara, as the commercial technology representative here on our panel, what are some concrete examples you can give where software-driven insights and data integration actually have tangibly accelerated both Army readiness and deterrence?
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: Start by picking up on what General Clark was just talking about, because I can talk about the zeros and ones, but the reason that we do what we do when we build the product that we build is to help with that. We want to be a part of that, and we want to make soldiers more capable and better enabled and empowered to execute their mission. There's this idea out there among some people, or an open question, or a perception of the army's relevance in the Pacific. And I think if there's anyone who still has any question about the army's massive importance in the Pacific, they either don't understand the army or they don't understand the Pacific, because that sustainment mission for the entire joint force alone is huge, and that doesn't even touch on everything that you just talked about in terms of real power, pointy tip of the spear stuff in every domain. But in that sustainment function, to answer your question about some of the specific outcomes that we're seeing, which is the only way really that readiness should be measured, we're working with both the Second Infantry Division as well as the Eighth Theater Sustainment Command and a range of other divisions and organizations in the Army, and they're literally creating days of readiness, months of readiness, and in some cases, years of readiness that otherwise don't exist. And the way that they do that is primarily through either automation or the simulation in order to anticipate scenarios that might happen, and then using decision aids to rapidly make decisions about how to fill stock, change parts, acquire new capabilities, additively manufacture parts and systems that can't be otherwise found, where to deploy them when, how to optimize that deployment, and really claw back 10s of millions of dollars among just those two units that I just described in the past year. 10s of millions of dollars saved by simply identifying things like unfilled requisitions or parts that are obsolete that can be replaced with something not obsolete and also less expensive. I think that this is it. This is part of how you generate lethality. You get readiness to pay for itself, because otherwise sustainment is too expensive when it has to be done for the entirety of the joint force, all the way on the other side of the world. And I think the Army has figured this out and is really onto it, and we're seeing these amazing results happening.
GEN Perkins: So, Xavier, we're very lucky that Republic of Korea, one of our key coalition partners, has very extensive and robust defense industries. How have you and your team been able to leverage that work, supply chain integration and just make it a key part of your deterrence.
GEN Brunson: Yeah, I would go back first to something that Tara just said when she talks about additive manufacturing. So, our thoughts were: is if you remember from the video, you saw today when the secretary, the acting secretary of the army, was talking, he showed a vehicle called the ISV, the ISV is made by GM Defense. GM Defense is also in the Republic of Korea. Our old system was something breaks, we send it all the way back Conus in order to fix it, so we can then bring it all the way back out again. The distances, and I don't remember all the math that Ron used. Is General Clark as he talked about how long it would take to be on a slow steamer to get from San Francisco to Indochina, 29 days. But we would do that. We would take this depot mindset, and what we want to do is try to change that. So, in the ally that we have in Korea, we have an absolutely premier industrial base. If you look at the K defense industry, some of the kit that they're producing right now sits along our friends, allies, and partners. Whether that be the K9, the artillery piece, or the tanks that they make, or the Chunmu system, which is akin to our Patriot, those things exist there, and that manufacturing exists forward, and again, what's going to be important in the future, in particular in a fight in the Pacific, is our ability to endure. Whether that be able to protect the things that we place forward, or whether that be the ability to stay there because we can sustain ourselves inside the first island chain from Korea. So, the idea of a regional sustainment hub would simply be to bring those means of production. Sounds very Soviet-like, doesn't it? The means of production bring those back to oh yes, comrade. Is to bring those means of production to the theater, and I think if we're able to replicate things like this, taking best advantage-no pejorative sense in that at all-but to take best advantage of what our partners do well, and then turn that onto our equipment-it changes. It's no different than in the maritime domain when we look at maintenance, repair, and overhaul, which is being done forward alongside the Koreans. The 15% of global shipbuilding is done in Korea. 15% and oh by the way, we've got an ally with the Mutual Defense Treaty in Japan that has 10% of global shipbuilding. And if we take these cases forward, we're able to stay in theater longer. We're fixing the things where they fight, without having to get them out of the theater as quickly as possible to be repaired, only to bring them back in. So, we've got to try to achieve admirable endurance in theater by partnering alongside our allies, seeing the things that they can do better than we can right now at distance, and then keeping them right where they belong, that keeps our forces forward. If we can manage to do that across domains with all of our capabilities, then what we find is we're not trying to wait on people to meet a tip bid. We're not trying to wait on people to get to places where they might not be, and then we take best advantage of the enviable posture that we have in regions, we have a positional advantage, and we're also well placed with our allies to get at a lot of these things.
GEN Perkins: So, Ron, you know, we talk a lot about joint and combined integration. How are all the activities that USARPAC's involved with, whether it's training, whether it's building partner capacity, really build both the human, procedural, and technical interoperability with all our work.
GEN Clark: Thanks. That the vision I have at USARPAC and the priorities that we put forward really focus on three things: people, partnerships, and in our efforts to prevail in competition, crisis, and conflict. So first, it starts with our people. Talk about human interoperability. It's the interwoven nature of our service together in the Pacific. So not to keep harping on the distances of things, but if you were to take a marker on a map and draw a box that starts in Cambodia, goes south to Indonesia, or correction, south to Malaysia, back east Indonesia, north to the Philippines, and then back to Cambodia. It's roughly 2,000 miles in each direction. The tyranny of distance and the opportunity to really look at scale is that's the same distance, roughly, from the UK to Spain to Turkiye to Finland. So, our ability to be able to work with partners and allies on again their sovereign soil to be able to share procedures that we build through again 54 exercises over the course of a year, some joint, some army to army, but always integrated with our partners. It gives us the opportunity to have our systems work technically, have our procedures nested, and to get to know one another in a way that allows us to build the trust that's necessary in training, because if we wait until crisis or conflict, it's too late to ask the question, "Can I trust you? But because we've been working together, because we've exercised at scale, because we're modernizing our forces alongside one another, it works. So, when the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Acting Chief, talks about convergence tomorrow, it's not just convergence of capability for our Army, but it's also our partners and allies who are modernizing their forces right alongside of us. When he talks about strike, our ability to be able to reach out at range to affect both through kinetic and non-kinetic means our adversary at range. It's with our partners and allies at every step. When he talks about close battle, the human interaction under fire of forces who are designed to have effects on one another that are lethal, it's with partners and allies, and then the endurance that's necessary, not just at the end of conflict, but to persist again is at the invitation of our partners and allies. If it's in the first and second island chain or on the Asian continent, so everything we do is tied to our relationships and our partnerships with our partners and allies. It's so great to see so many teammates here today. And we've really worked hard at building those relationships at scale inside of the land forces. We have a land forces dialog that meets multiple times a year. Chiefs of Army of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the U.S. We've invited the ROKs in, we've invited India in, and it continues to grow. So those relationships-built army to army are what allows us to really integrate across interoperability, interoperability through swim lanes, and integrate it really across our formations and with our partners.
GEN Perkins: Thanks. Very good. So, Tara, I'm going to ask you to take out your crystal ball as you took it. Take a look at future operational concepts. In your mind, what does land power and technology integration look like over the next decade or so? And where are you most optimistic about the collective progress between industry and the army.
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: Well, maybe I shouldn't have made that comment or that joke about the zeros and ones because now you're giving me a question about land power future operating concepts, which is funny for the industry person. But I'm happy to do my best at answering it. What I would say, and it picks up on the end of your question there with respect to where am I optimistic? I see tremendous collaboration happening already between the Army and industry, and I talked about the examples of 2ID and the ATSC. The ATSC generated 610 days of readiness that they didn't otherwise have last year, and that's because of the adoption of yes, sir. Yes, it is. That's right. That's right. Very recently, and everybody's in this room. And when you talk, General Brunson about additive manufacturing, and I love the vision that you laid out. I think that's exactly what we need as a country and yet understanding what are the AM capabilities available to the soldier to tap into isn't something that just is automatically known. And so today, if you are a loggie and you're trying to source a part, and you don't want to go all the way back CONUS, or shockingly DLA won't answer your phone calls, you have to have at your fingertips insight into where are the industrial printers that will make exactly what you need. That exists today. You can log in and you can see it at the min level, and so this gives me great hope because for so long, we've struggled working industry and army together to get our arms around what was really a data management problem, and you, I think, have surmounted that problem, and now you have the opportunity to use that data and decide with it. And so, getting to real decisions, we're doing this a lot in Army Command and Control. Is it yet formerly known as Army Next Generation Command and Control, NGC too? Okay, okay. Then it's NGC two well just going to kill me and this is an unbelievable example of the army and industry collaborating together I've never seen such openness including in a very transparent way around the technology itself because of the nature of the army owned data layer with the world's best commercial software capabilities plugged in, and so if we can get that kind of thinking into other programs, because all of these capabilities are software defined now, then I think you have a working model in the United States Army today that you can scale for great success.
GEN Perkins: All right. Well, I mean, being conscious of everyone's time and interest of time, what I'd like to do now is open it up to the audience and the floor for questions. And so, we have a couple of mics pre-positioned here. Feel free to come up. We can either address it to a specific panel member or throw it out there as red meat for everyone to fight over, or whatever your preferred method is of directing the question. It's always going to be that first question to break the ice. Sir, why don't you go there, and then if you could walk up to the mic afterwards.
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Oct. 14, 2026
Gen. Brunson Speaks on Deterrence and Partner Integration at 2026 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum
GEN Perkins: They got them to where they are now, so that you know the lens through which they look at this problem, and they'll talk a little bit about the problems they're dealing with when it comes to solving, partnering, and providing land power to a very wide and vast part of the world.
GEN Brunson: Thank you very much, sir. Hey, one of the things that I would also encourage ... Show Full Article SEOUL, Korea, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Forces Korea issued the following speech by General Xavier Brunson: * * * Oct. 14, 2026 Gen. Brunson Speaks on Deterrence and Partner Integration at 2026 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum GEN Perkins: They got them to where they are now, so that you know the lens through which they look at this problem, and they'll talk a little bit about the problems they're dealing with when it comes to solving, partnering, and providing land power to a very wide and vast part of the world. GEN Brunson: Thank you very much, sir. Hey, one of the things that I would also encourageeveryone to do is, as I look across the room here, there are a lot of faces that are familiar to me. They're only familiar to me because I'm a member of AUSA. So, if you haven't joined AUSA, join AUSA so that you can see these faces many, many times in the future, that'll be important to you. My name is Xavier Brunson. I currently command the United States Forces Korea, the United Nations Command, and Combined Forces Command, all on the Republic of Korea right now. I'm actually joined here today by one of my DCGs as well, my DCOM, General Sungmin Kim. So, everything that we do is intricately woven around the ROK-U.S. alliance. That alliance has stood for some 75 years, and it is an example or a paragon, if you will, of all that's right when folks work in alliance together. The problems that we solve are joint problems. They're not just U.S. problems. They're not just Republic of Korea problems, but they are as great opportunities for two nations to work in concert with one another in order to arrive at solutions that are beneficial for both countries. I'm thankful for the opportunity to be here, General Perkins, sir, and I'm glad to join my good friend and former desk mate Ron Clark, as well as the folks from Air, whose names are all on these chairs and thank you all for doing this for us too, man.
GEN Clark: Good afternoon. I'm Ron Clark. I'm the commander of U.S. Army Pacific. Much like General Brunson, he talked about the familiarity and the faces that are in the crowd. I think a lot of it's because you owe him money. And because he's joined by his deputy, I must acknowledge I'm joined by my command sergeant major Jason Schmidt and two of my deputies. J.B. Vowell and Giles Cornelia. So, if I were to fall at some point during this, yeah, we're throwing the Australian on the landmine. The thing I tell you about my personal experience, professional experience in this region, is that as the commander of USARPAC, which is the privilege of my professional life, I have spent 10 years as a soldier in the Pacific, I've spent four assignments as a general officer in the Pacific. I was the chief of staff at the headquarters I command now. I was the commander of the 25th Infantry Division, and then the chief of staff at U.S. PACOM, and now return to USARPAC. And what I would share with you that's unique about the problem set that we have is something that we'll talk about quite a bit, and Tara is going to really pull the string on this. Is the fact that we in the Pacific have to deal with a lot of things, and one of the things we have to deal with is that tyranny of distance, where we are physically located to where we need to be, and we'll talk more about that during the panel, but to have posture set forward in the theater is a must because our pacing threat, our adversary, has devised a strategy that is tied to anti-access area denial, and it's focused specifically on air and maritime threats. So our ability, as the U.S. Army's theater army in the Pacific, to provide a value proposition not just to the army but to the joint force as a foundational element, aligned with the theme of AUSA as the foundation of the joint force in the Pacific, to be able to provide the capabilities at the time and place of need to assist our joint partners to have windows of time or operations that can pulse into an access denied environment in air and Maritime, because on and from the land to be able to project capability is really what we're about. It's across all seven joint functions, and I look forward to having that discussion with you today.
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: Good afternoon to all of you. My name is Tara Murphy Dori. I'm the CEO of Air. We're an enterprise readiness company, and what that means is that we have built an AI-native software platform using agentic AI and a lot of data, some of it yours, some of the data that we bring to fundamentally overhaul the current state of military readiness, which is largely treated as a metric system or, in even worse cases, a stoplight chart, and really allow enterprises to attain and maintain a continuous state of being ready, and we work with the United States Army. We work with all the military services and across the U.S. national security sector to connect really four or five functional domains that we believe need to be interconnected in a technical way in order to achieve that continuously held state of readiness. Those are acquisition and production, sustainment, maintenance, and logistics. And I would just say that across my career, I have been working on aspects of that problem here. Pentagon as a civilian employee outside of the Pentagon in the private sector at Air for almost nine years now, and I would just note that throughout that entire time, I have relied on a number of great partnerships. AUSA is probably at the top, so I'm going to give General Smith and his organization. One final plug. I really appreciate being here today with 40,000 of my closest friends, your closest friends, I believe, as well as these unbelievable panelists and our moderators. So, thank you to AUSA. Thank you to all of you for joining, and I'm really looking forward to the conversation.
GEN Perkins: All right, Xavier, I think we'll start with you as somebody who lives and works on the peninsula where a threat is imminent. You know, fight tonight. I think was coined there as a phrase. How do our Ford Station Land Power forces enable joint operations and make extended deterrence possible? And the vice has spoken a number of times about endurance.
GEN Brunson: So, sir, if I were to really look at answering that question, I think about something that across our command we think of as the three kings, and those three kings are posture, protection, and then sustainment, and that falls directly in line with some of the things the Vice. We're going to hear from the Vice when he talks about how the army fights. And so, if you think about posture as being having this enviable position where your forces are located, with the right capabilities and the right capacities, as well as a will or a demonstrated will to use those things, that would be that component of deterrence by itself, and then when you look at protection, it's intuitively obvious to all here, both in and out of uniform. If you can protect yourself, you can stay somewhere and achieve some form of strategic, operational, even tactical endurance over the long haul. So that's important. And then if you can sustain yourself where you are, then, what that gives you the opportunity to do is to translate strategic movements to strategic maneuver, where you're achieving an effect in the land domain, in particular. And if you achieve those effects over a long period of time, that's how you guarantee yourself the ability to endure in the place where you are. Endurance itself is a factor that's built on the two before that. If you can have the right posture, if you can be protected in the place where you are, if you can sustain yourself in that place, you've achieved endurance, and that's the thing that land forces give us by virtue of our enviable posture across the region. So, a lot of times, I look to General Clark in his formation to help us with that, whether that be on the sustainment side, whether that be on the more martial aspects of things we do with fires, those things are all important and they're all born from United States Army Pacific. But I think chief among the things that we've got to recognize is that we, as a force, as a joint force have achieved enviable posture in places. We have to make sure the capabilities match where we are in those places in order to achieve endurance. I would finally close this by saying simply that we've got this network of friends, partners, and allies across the region that further enhance our ability to endure in the places where we are, and we've got to make sure we take best advantage, and I don't mean that in any pejorative sense at all. But we've got to take best advantage of the years of partnership that we built up across the region in order to endure in that space.
GEN Perkins: Yeah. So similar question to you, Ron, and we were talking about this actually this week at the FORSCOM conference, and then before we came out here, that sometimes there's a misunderstanding that somehow in the AOR it is only a maritime or air theater, and while the maritime and air component are extremely important, there's a misunderstanding about what land power provides in the theater, so as the USARPAC commander, you know what are those foundational land-based capabilities that you provide that ensure the joint force can project power and prevail.
GEN Clark: The way we think about our role as a foundational element for the joint force really is tied to our theater strategy, and it's to you know really take a look at the problem set and apply the right capabilities to it, you know along the lines of having the right plan. So, our responsibility to deliver warfighting capability at the place and time of our choosing is really tied to posture and how we think through what's known as the tyranny of distance. So, if you were to leave on a ship by surface from the west coast of the United States and travel to Taipei, it would take a month. If you were to leave from the port at Honolulu to Australia-it's 19 days. It's three weeks. So, from the point of strategic or operational warning to being able to muster forces, marshal them, deploy from port to port, and then move-it takes too long. You're late to need. So, the only way that we've been successful in the business of deterrence is to provide those courses at scale on the Asian Peninsula or on the Asian continent or inside the first and second island machine, so to deliver those combat-ready formations that are ready to fight tonight is mission one inside of our strategy. We have to strengthen our relationships with our allies and partners because our exercise program operation pathways, 54 exercises over the course of a year, allows us the opportunity to train with the partners and allies that General Brunson just talked about on their sovereign soil, at their invitation, to help build the readiness necessary to deter war, and if necessary, to fight and win, plain and simple. And then, third, our responsibility after we provide those trained and ready forces to deliver them to the fight, and we provide a strong ally and partner base. We have to ensure that we're able to assure our partners and allies of our ability to be able to get after the fight once we're there. So again, it's all tied to being in the spot that's necessary with the capability to be able to first deter war because that's our highest duty, and then to advance the posture that's necessary in order to make sure we have all the things that we need at a time and place of our choosing to beat that tactical warning problem of being able to move the things that are necessary into a place where they can make a real difference in the fight.
GEN Perkins: So, Tara, kind of pulling the thread that Ron talked about, when you take a look at the tyranny of both time and distance in this part of the world, what are some of the architectural and data sharing hurdles that are faced when you're trying to work through commercial joint coalition networks and make that all fill in that gap.
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: They are many, unfortunately. Although top of mind, I know for many leaders. So, the way that we look at the world often is with respect to this idea of getting to a more continuously active held state of readiness. You can't do that alone, and we heard that from both of you. This has to be connectivity with the military to the industrial base, down to suppliers, and also with allies and partners. Otherwise, we're constantly going to be in a reactive mode in terms of whatever is happening in the world, whether that is demand for the military to take action in an operational way, or it's simply pre-positioning in order to have that prepared readiness and overcome the distance tyranny that General Clark was just speaking about, and so core to being able to get away from silos and reactive, slow ways of communicating with each other. We have to have the speed of information sharing that we all benefit from in other aspects of our lives and work today. I would say that the biggest one that we often see when working with the Army or network challenges, we have over a dozen different environments stood up just to support what I would never say this to an investor, but you could think of as one single customer, the Department of War, and yet you have environments that are functionally enclaves to protect data from each other, it's remarkable. Now you add in multi-partner networks to talk to allies, and you could be in the same building, but it doesn't matter if you're riding on different networks. You may as well be in different cities. So, there's a tremendous challenge associated with networks and interoperability that impacts this, then let's say you can solve the network challenge. I would argue, and this is something that I worked on even many years ago when I was in the Pentagon classification, or more specifically, overclassification, as a business that supports the logistics and sustainment, warfighting sustainment functions for the Army. We do almost all of our work, or we support our users doing almost all of their work on NIPR and IL-5 and unclassified environments. And in fact, a huge part of what we're doing is providing tie-ins and immediate availability and visibility into things like what can you get out of the commercial sector in parts, for example, with maybe a three-day lead time instead of a 300-day lead time. You have to be able to hit the internet to do that, and we can do that in a secure way. But it is more challenging when you then need to push that to the fires mission on IL-6, and so everything that we can do as a national security enterprise to remove unnecessary overclassification, and I would just maybe emphasize that probably the single greatest thing we could do is drop no Ford everywhere we possibly can and make the default. Yeah, thank you. I thought I'd get a better reaction too, but it often is a default label to apply, and I think an unnecessary one. So those are just a couple of examples.
GEN Perkins: Very good. So, Xavier, one of the focuses of this panel is partner integration, and as the current commander of the UN command, that you lead a multinational coalition that actually has protected the armistice, I think, for over 70 years now. How does that coalition strengthen the U.S. relationship to that part of the world and the U.S. in general, specifically.
GEN Brunson: Yeah, sir. So one of the things that I think about often is many hands make easy work, and by that what I mean is you've got this host of nations, and whether it's me sending Command Sergeant Major Rob Bolmer out alongside the UN command, sending them down as far as New Zealand to talk to non-commissioned officers there, or whether it's us working closer to home with our good friends and partners across Europe that are members of the United Nations Command. There's one tie that remains there, and that's the emotion that comes from people who sent their youth, people in their youth, to defend a nation they hadn't seen, and as we come to the end of life of some of these great patriots who came to the peninsula years ago, I think it's oftentimes incumbent on those of us who remain to remind folks of the emotion that was born of decisions to send people to a conflict, and we spend a great deal of time trying to help folks remember that years ago you said you would do a thing, and the armistice is a constant reminder. It's the baseline for us to operate from, and when we look at that armistice, it says, "Should this fail, we'll come back. And a lot of times, what we do is we don't remind people of both the emotion that was tied to decisions made in the past, and we also don't provide them a structure from which to operate. So, we've taken great pains recently. You know, General Clark talks about the Pathways experience and the exercise program that happens across the Pacific. The more we can involve these partners and enrich their experience with substantive work, not just busy work, but substantive work that points to a true objective, the better served we are in the long haul. A great many times, the easy button is to just say, "Well, hey, just show up. But if we have people show up, we have to let them see our secret, no foreign war plans, and help them to understand that that everything that we do is built on requirements and expectations. The expectation of a partner is that they're going to be intimately involved in things you're doing. The requirement is we have to build the environment where that might be possible, and I think that that's how we meet not only our objectives as a nation, but we meet the objectives more importantly of those we call our allies, our partners, and our friends.
GEN Perkins: So, Ron, as the United States Army doctrine specifies, and as a former TRADOC commander, I had to get a little doctrine, or else they said they're going to cancel my retirement planning. We say that land power maneuvers to a position of advantage, and so as the commander of an AOR that spans 17 time zones, how do you maneuver to get a position of advantage for deterrent?
GEN Clark: Yes, sir. Thanks for that. 17 time zones, 52% of the Earth's surface, 60% of the Earth's population, 4 billion people, 25% of the world's land mass. So not just water, but 25% of the landmass. And I mentioned briefly pathways. Our efforts to campaign forward in the region with allies and partners, is really how we do that. The change for us as an army is capability. Now that we have true capability to operate across all domains today, placing that capability or those capabilities inside the first and second honor chamber, we can build joint interior lines. Provides for the joint force again an opportunity to be able to in crisis or conflict conduct post operations. But for us as an army, again building those lasting partnerships and relationships are what matters. So, for us, for instance, during a series of war games, now the Army has an opportunity-not just in Army war games, but in joint war games, and in one case, a maritime war game, where Army capability changed the outcome at a point in an exercise where it would have ended with, I wouldn't say us winning, but we prevailed. That was a change from us not having capability to be able to build the trust with the joint force to employ army, fires. Our ability to be able to see first, sense first, strike at a time and place of our choosing across multiple domains to protect, as General Brunson said, and to sustain the joint force. Because without the army, specifically logistics, whereas one of my mentors and good friends, General Honore, you know well, sir, would say the Army does logistics. He didn't say it, it's more of the Army does logistics, and that's true. So, our joint partners count on us, the Air Force, for agile combat employment. They cannot employ their exquisite capabilities in the manner of their choosing without us holding terrain and providing the sustainment that's necessary for them to be able to operate the Navy. They must replenish from the land. So, if we don't hold and secure ground for them to conduct the replenishment that's necessary to put the best maritime force in the history of the world into the fight, then they're not in the fight. Our ability to provide integrated air missile defense across the entirety of the region is an army capability that is leveraged by the joint force. So again, our efforts on and from land to be able to, sir, answer your question: the efficacy of the joint force of the army as foundational to the joint force is now being exercised exclusively out there in war games, and we've had very, very positive results. And what it does is it builds that trust with the joint force. So, when Admiral Koehler, the JTF commander in most of our OPLANs, has Major General Bernard Harrington, the commander of Seventh Infantry Division Multi Domain Command Pacific, sitting next to him, talking through how we can impact the enemy's decision calculus through all the domains-that makes a difference. And if we continue to build the reps and sets that are necessary to do that at scale, again, it's what gives our adversary pause. That's what allows us to deter, and it gives us again the ability to be able to fight and win when called upon.
GEN Perkins: Thanks. So, so Tara, as the commercial technology representative here on our panel, what are some concrete examples you can give where software-driven insights and data integration actually have tangibly accelerated both Army readiness and deterrence?
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: Start by picking up on what General Clark was just talking about, because I can talk about the zeros and ones, but the reason that we do what we do when we build the product that we build is to help with that. We want to be a part of that, and we want to make soldiers more capable and better enabled and empowered to execute their mission. There's this idea out there among some people, or an open question, or a perception of the army's relevance in the Pacific. And I think if there's anyone who still has any question about the army's massive importance in the Pacific, they either don't understand the army or they don't understand the Pacific, because that sustainment mission for the entire joint force alone is huge, and that doesn't even touch on everything that you just talked about in terms of real power, pointy tip of the spear stuff in every domain. But in that sustainment function, to answer your question about some of the specific outcomes that we're seeing, which is the only way really that readiness should be measured, we're working with both the Second Infantry Division as well as the Eighth Theater Sustainment Command and a range of other divisions and organizations in the Army, and they're literally creating days of readiness, months of readiness, and in some cases, years of readiness that otherwise don't exist. And the way that they do that is primarily through either automation or the simulation in order to anticipate scenarios that might happen, and then using decision aids to rapidly make decisions about how to fill stock, change parts, acquire new capabilities, additively manufacture parts and systems that can't be otherwise found, where to deploy them when, how to optimize that deployment, and really claw back 10s of millions of dollars among just those two units that I just described in the past year. 10s of millions of dollars saved by simply identifying things like unfilled requisitions or parts that are obsolete that can be replaced with something not obsolete and also less expensive. I think that this is it. This is part of how you generate lethality. You get readiness to pay for itself, because otherwise sustainment is too expensive when it has to be done for the entirety of the joint force, all the way on the other side of the world. And I think the Army has figured this out and is really onto it, and we're seeing these amazing results happening.
GEN Perkins: So, Xavier, we're very lucky that Republic of Korea, one of our key coalition partners, has very extensive and robust defense industries. How have you and your team been able to leverage that work, supply chain integration and just make it a key part of your deterrence.
GEN Brunson: Yeah, I would go back first to something that Tara just said when she talks about additive manufacturing. So, our thoughts were: is if you remember from the video, you saw today when the secretary, the acting secretary of the army, was talking, he showed a vehicle called the ISV, the ISV is made by GM Defense. GM Defense is also in the Republic of Korea. Our old system was something breaks, we send it all the way back Conus in order to fix it, so we can then bring it all the way back out again. The distances, and I don't remember all the math that Ron used. Is General Clark as he talked about how long it would take to be on a slow steamer to get from San Francisco to Indochina, 29 days. But we would do that. We would take this depot mindset, and what we want to do is try to change that. So, in the ally that we have in Korea, we have an absolutely premier industrial base. If you look at the K defense industry, some of the kit that they're producing right now sits along our friends, allies, and partners. Whether that be the K9, the artillery piece, or the tanks that they make, or the Chunmu system, which is akin to our Patriot, those things exist there, and that manufacturing exists forward, and again, what's going to be important in the future, in particular in a fight in the Pacific, is our ability to endure. Whether that be able to protect the things that we place forward, or whether that be the ability to stay there because we can sustain ourselves inside the first island chain from Korea. So, the idea of a regional sustainment hub would simply be to bring those means of production. Sounds very Soviet-like, doesn't it? The means of production bring those back to oh yes, comrade. Is to bring those means of production to the theater, and I think if we're able to replicate things like this, taking best advantage-no pejorative sense in that at all-but to take best advantage of what our partners do well, and then turn that onto our equipment-it changes. It's no different than in the maritime domain when we look at maintenance, repair, and overhaul, which is being done forward alongside the Koreans. The 15% of global shipbuilding is done in Korea. 15% and oh by the way, we've got an ally with the Mutual Defense Treaty in Japan that has 10% of global shipbuilding. And if we take these cases forward, we're able to stay in theater longer. We're fixing the things where they fight, without having to get them out of the theater as quickly as possible to be repaired, only to bring them back in. So, we've got to try to achieve admirable endurance in theater by partnering alongside our allies, seeing the things that they can do better than we can right now at distance, and then keeping them right where they belong, that keeps our forces forward. If we can manage to do that across domains with all of our capabilities, then what we find is we're not trying to wait on people to meet a tip bid. We're not trying to wait on people to get to places where they might not be, and then we take best advantage of the enviable posture that we have in regions, we have a positional advantage, and we're also well placed with our allies to get at a lot of these things.
GEN Perkins: So, Ron, you know, we talk a lot about joint and combined integration. How are all the activities that USARPAC's involved with, whether it's training, whether it's building partner capacity, really build both the human, procedural, and technical interoperability with all our work.
GEN Clark: Thanks. That the vision I have at USARPAC and the priorities that we put forward really focus on three things: people, partnerships, and in our efforts to prevail in competition, crisis, and conflict. So first, it starts with our people. Talk about human interoperability. It's the interwoven nature of our service together in the Pacific. So not to keep harping on the distances of things, but if you were to take a marker on a map and draw a box that starts in Cambodia, goes south to Indonesia, or correction, south to Malaysia, back east Indonesia, north to the Philippines, and then back to Cambodia. It's roughly 2,000 miles in each direction. The tyranny of distance and the opportunity to really look at scale is that's the same distance, roughly, from the UK to Spain to Turkiye to Finland. So, our ability to be able to work with partners and allies on again their sovereign soil to be able to share procedures that we build through again 54 exercises over the course of a year, some joint, some army to army, but always integrated with our partners. It gives us the opportunity to have our systems work technically, have our procedures nested, and to get to know one another in a way that allows us to build the trust that's necessary in training, because if we wait until crisis or conflict, it's too late to ask the question, "Can I trust you? But because we've been working together, because we've exercised at scale, because we're modernizing our forces alongside one another, it works. So, when the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Acting Chief, talks about convergence tomorrow, it's not just convergence of capability for our Army, but it's also our partners and allies who are modernizing their forces right alongside of us. When he talks about strike, our ability to be able to reach out at range to affect both through kinetic and non-kinetic means our adversary at range. It's with our partners and allies at every step. When he talks about close battle, the human interaction under fire of forces who are designed to have effects on one another that are lethal, it's with partners and allies, and then the endurance that's necessary, not just at the end of conflict, but to persist again is at the invitation of our partners and allies. If it's in the first and second island chain or on the Asian continent, so everything we do is tied to our relationships and our partnerships with our partners and allies. It's so great to see so many teammates here today. And we've really worked hard at building those relationships at scale inside of the land forces. We have a land forces dialog that meets multiple times a year. Chiefs of Army of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the U.S. We've invited the ROKs in, we've invited India in, and it continues to grow. So those relationships-built army to army are what allows us to really integrate across interoperability, interoperability through swim lanes, and integrate it really across our formations and with our partners.
GEN Perkins: Thanks. Very good. So, Tara, I'm going to ask you to take out your crystal ball as you took it. Take a look at future operational concepts. In your mind, what does land power and technology integration look like over the next decade or so? And where are you most optimistic about the collective progress between industry and the army.
AIR CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty: Well, maybe I shouldn't have made that comment or that joke about the zeros and ones because now you're giving me a question about land power future operating concepts, which is funny for the industry person. But I'm happy to do my best at answering it. What I would say, and it picks up on the end of your question there with respect to where am I optimistic? I see tremendous collaboration happening already between the Army and industry, and I talked about the examples of 2ID and the ATSC. The ATSC generated 610 days of readiness that they didn't otherwise have last year, and that's because of the adoption of yes, sir. Yes, it is. That's right. That's right. Very recently, and everybody's in this room. And when you talk, General Brunson about additive manufacturing, and I love the vision that you laid out. I think that's exactly what we need as a country and yet understanding what are the AM capabilities available to the soldier to tap into isn't something that just is automatically known. And so today, if you are a loggie and you're trying to source a part, and you don't want to go all the way back CONUS, or shockingly DLA won't answer your phone calls, you have to have at your fingertips insight into where are the industrial printers that will make exactly what you need. That exists today. You can log in and you can see it at the min level, and so this gives me great hope because for so long, we've struggled working industry and army together to get our arms around what was really a data management problem, and you, I think, have surmounted that problem, and now you have the opportunity to use that data and decide with it. And so, getting to real decisions, we're doing this a lot in Army Command and Control. Is it yet formerly known as Army Next Generation Command and Control, NGC too? Okay, okay. Then it's NGC two well just going to kill me and this is an unbelievable example of the army and industry collaborating together I've never seen such openness including in a very transparent way around the technology itself because of the nature of the army owned data layer with the world's best commercial software capabilities plugged in, and so if we can get that kind of thinking into other programs, because all of these capabilities are software defined now, then I think you have a working model in the United States Army today that you can scale for great success.
GEN Perkins: All right. Well, I mean, being conscious of everyone's time and interest of time, what I'd like to do now is open it up to the audience and the floor for questions. And so, we have a couple of mics pre-positioned here. Feel free to come up. We can either address it to a specific panel member or throw it out there as red meat for everyone to fight over, or whatever your preferred method is of directing the question. It's always going to be that first question to break the ice. Sir, why don't you go there, and then if you could walk up to the mic afterwards.
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Treasury and IRS Move to Protect Health Care Benefits for Eligible Americans
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release:
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Treasury and IRS Move to Protect Health Care Benefits for Eligible Americans
October 14, 2026
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations to implement President Trump's Working Families Tax Cuts reforms to the Premium Tax Credit (PTC), a refundable tax credit that helps eligible American taxpayers ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: * * * Treasury and IRS Move to Protect Health Care Benefits for Eligible Americans October 14, 2026 Proposed Rules Implement Working Families Tax Cuts Reforms to Prevent Fraud and Abuse of the Premium Tax Credit - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations to implement President Trump's Working Families Tax Cuts reforms to the Premium Tax Credit (PTC), a refundable tax credit that helps eligible American taxpayersafford health insurance purchased through the Health Insurance Exchanges.
"Hardworking American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize health care for people who are ineligible under federal law," said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "Today's proposed rules implement the common-sense reforms enacted by the Working Families Tax Cuts to close eligibility loopholes and ensure taxpayer-funded Premium Tax Credits are reserved for eligible Americans. Under President Trump, this Administration is cracking down on fraud and corruption; holding bad actors accountable; lowering health care costs for Americans; and restoring integrity to our tax code and health care system."
"The proposed rules protect eligible taxpayers while strengthening the integrity of the Premium Tax Credit," said IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano. "The enhanced verification measures are designed to curb improper claims, ensuring these vital tax benefits go strictly to the hardworking Americans who qualify for them."
"The Trump Administration's whole-of-government approach to fighting fraud, waste, and abuse is built on the idea that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. "Ensuring health programs serve only those who are eligible is one of the most effective ways to protect these programs and the taxpayers who support them. With today's proposed rules, the Treasury Department is taking another step forward in our collaborative effort to protect taxpayer dollars by shutting down waste and fraud before a single dollar leaves the building."
PROTECTING TAXPAYER-FUNDED BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLE AMERICANS
The proposed rules put the Working Families Tax Cuts' Premium Tax Credit reforms into effect which strengthen eligibility checks, close gaps in the verification process, and help ensure taxpayer-funded subsidies go only to eligible American taxpayers.
The Trump Administration's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud exposed the need for stronger safeguards to protect the integrity of the Federal Marketplace. As part of that work, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the removal of more than 760,000 unverified "phantom" enrollees from the rolls of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), resulting in $2.2 billion in savings and sending nearly 1 million Americans $500 each who had been overcharged for their Obamacare coverage by the Biden Administration.
The Treasury and IRS proposed rules:
* Strengthen Eligibility Standards: Beginning in 2027, ensures taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies go only to Americans who qualify under federal law.
* Protect Taxpayer Benefits for Eligible Americans: Restricts PTC eligibility to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and certain lawfully present noncitizens.
* Close Verification Gaps: Applies commonsense PTC eligibility checks and adds new verification criteria for any advance PTC payments.
The proposed regulations are available here (https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-21056/premium-tax-credit).
The changes to Exchange procedures and operations necessary to implement the verification requirements are expected to be addressed in parallel proposed regulations issued by HHS under related provisions of the same statute.
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Original text here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0658/
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Treasury and IRS Move to Protect Health Care Benefits for Eligible Americans
October 14, 2026
Proposed Rules Implement Working Families Tax Cuts Reforms to Prevent Fraud and Abuse of the Premium Tax Credit
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations to implement President Trump's Working Families Tax Cuts reforms to the Premium Tax Credit (PTC), a refundable tax credit that helps eligible American taxpayers ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: * * * Treasury and IRS Move to Protect Health Care Benefits for Eligible Americans October 14, 2026 Proposed Rules Implement Working Families Tax Cuts Reforms to Prevent Fraud and Abuse of the Premium Tax Credit - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations to implement President Trump's Working Families Tax Cuts reforms to the Premium Tax Credit (PTC), a refundable tax credit that helps eligible American taxpayersafford health insurance purchased through the Health Insurance Exchanges.
"Hardworking American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize health care for people who are ineligible under federal law," said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "Today's proposed rules implement the common-sense reforms enacted by the Working Families Tax Cuts to close eligibility loopholes and ensure taxpayer-funded Premium Tax Credits are reserved for eligible Americans. Under President Trump, this Administration is cracking down on fraud and corruption; holding bad actors accountable; lowering health care costs for Americans; and restoring integrity to our tax code and health care system."
"The proposed rules protect eligible taxpayers while strengthening the integrity of the Premium Tax Credit," said IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano. "The enhanced verification measures are designed to curb improper claims, ensuring these vital tax benefits go strictly to the hardworking Americans who qualify for them."
"The Trump Administration's whole-of-government approach to fighting fraud, waste, and abuse is built on the idea that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. "Ensuring health programs serve only those who are eligible is one of the most effective ways to protect these programs and the taxpayers who support them. With today's proposed rules, the Treasury Department is taking another step forward in our collaborative effort to protect taxpayer dollars by shutting down waste and fraud before a single dollar leaves the building."
PROTECTING TAXPAYER-FUNDED BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLE AMERICANS
The proposed rules put the Working Families Tax Cuts' Premium Tax Credit reforms into effect which strengthen eligibility checks, close gaps in the verification process, and help ensure taxpayer-funded subsidies go only to eligible American taxpayers.
The Trump Administration's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud exposed the need for stronger safeguards to protect the integrity of the Federal Marketplace. As part of that work, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the removal of more than 760,000 unverified "phantom" enrollees from the rolls of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), resulting in $2.2 billion in savings and sending nearly 1 million Americans $500 each who had been overcharged for their Obamacare coverage by the Biden Administration.
The Treasury and IRS proposed rules:
* Strengthen Eligibility Standards: Beginning in 2027, ensures taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies go only to Americans who qualify under federal law.
* Protect Taxpayer Benefits for Eligible Americans: Restricts PTC eligibility to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and certain lawfully present noncitizens.
* Close Verification Gaps: Applies commonsense PTC eligibility checks and adds new verification criteria for any advance PTC payments.
The proposed regulations are available here (https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-21056/premium-tax-credit).
The changes to Exchange procedures and operations necessary to implement the verification requirements are expected to be addressed in parallel proposed regulations issued by HHS under related provisions of the same statute.
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Original text here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0658/
NIH: Blood-pressure Drug May Activate Health-promoting Brown Fat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health issued the following news release:
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A blood-pressure drug may activate health-promoting brown fat
Large retrospective study suggests the tissue deters more than cardiovascular disease.
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In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, scientists have demonstrated that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism. Researchers initially discovered the connection ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health issued the following news release: * * * October 14, 2026 A blood-pressure drug may activate health-promoting brown fat Large retrospective study suggests the tissue deters more than cardiovascular disease. - In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, scientists have demonstrated that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism. Researchers initially discovered the connectionbetween brown fat and the drug class to which losartan belongs, known as angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), through an analysis of over 100,000 patients. This indicates that repurposing a widely used drug, with a well-known safety profile, may be a clinically viable method of stimulating brown fat, which has been linked to improved cardiovascular health and, identified for the first time in this study, psychiatric health.
"The unique reverse translational approach of this study, enabled by large clinical datasets and next-generation analytical tools, provides a much-needed clinical rationale for exploring brown adipose tissue as a therapeutic target in humans across a spectrum of diseases," said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK).
While white fat stores energy in the body, brown fat burns through it to produce heat. Coincidentally, a specific kind of PET/CT imaging often used in clinical oncology can measure this process. By assessing these kinds of images and medical records from more than 50,000 patients being treated for cancer, a research team led by Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., at Rockefeller University recently drew connections between brown fat and reduced prevalence of cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
"We only looked for a few diagnostic codes before, mainly focusing on cardiovascular disease since that's what this tissue has historically been associated with," Cohen said. "The scope of this new analysis is far more expansive. We doubled our number of patients and considered more than 500 codes, which allowed us to unearth many new insights."
Cohen, joined by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers Heiko Schoder, M.D., and Daniel Lafontaine, used artificial intelligence techniques to identify brown fat associations among more than 100,000 patients who received PET/CT imaging for cancer.
The authors built on top of previously known links and have now demonstrated that, in addition to having brown fat or not, a higher degree of brown fat activity is connected to more cardiometabolic benefits. They also discerned these associations across the body's six brown fat depots, with increased activity in the armpit depot being most strongly tied to cardiometabolic health.
They uncovered some new connections as well, including a lower incidence of anxiety and depression in patients with greater brown fat presence. Another signal that stood out was the higher levels of brown fat activity among patients taking ARBs.
To examine the relationship between ARBs and brown fat more closely, the researchers tested the impact of losartan in brown fat cells, finding that the drug directly increased their metabolic activity. They also learned that the molecular interactions by which losartan induced these effects were separate from the mechanisms underpinning its more well-known blood-pressure lowering properties.
"The fact that its different effects are mediated by different molecular pathways is advantageous, since it means we could potentially isolate them in future therapies. That way you would be able to stimulate brown fat in people with normal blood pressure," said first author Nicolas Gomez-Banoy, M.D., an instructor of clinical investigation at Rockefeller and an endocrinologist at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Healthy mice treated with losartan also exhibited many indicators of enhanced metabolism, such as increased energy expenditure, oxygen consumption, and carbon dioxide production, all while maintaining a steady body weight.
These results help form a basis for further investigation into inducing brown fat activity in humans. Depending on the outcome of such potential experiments, future studies could go in many different directions. However, no matter the result, researchers are not short on options.
"There were plenty of other medications associated with brown fat activity in our large cohort. This is just a start," Cohen said.
NIH supported this research through NIDDK grant DP1DK139983, National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant P30CA008748, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) grant T32GM152349, and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) grant UL1TR001866.
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About the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): The NIDDK, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports research on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutrition and obesity; and kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases. Spanning the full spectrum of medicine and afflicting people of all ages and ethnic groups, these diseases encompass some of the most common, severe, and disabling conditions affecting Americans. For more information about the NIDDK and its programs, see www.niddk.nih.gov.
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About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health(R)
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Reference
Nicolas Gomez-Banoy et al. Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat. Nature. October 14, 2026. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-11162-7
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Original text here: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/blood-pressure-drug-may-activate-health-promoting-brown-fat
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October 14, 2026
A blood-pressure drug may activate health-promoting brown fat
Large retrospective study suggests the tissue deters more than cardiovascular disease.
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In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, scientists have demonstrated that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism. Researchers initially discovered the connection ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health issued the following news release: * * * October 14, 2026 A blood-pressure drug may activate health-promoting brown fat Large retrospective study suggests the tissue deters more than cardiovascular disease. - In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, scientists have demonstrated that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism. Researchers initially discovered the connectionbetween brown fat and the drug class to which losartan belongs, known as angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), through an analysis of over 100,000 patients. This indicates that repurposing a widely used drug, with a well-known safety profile, may be a clinically viable method of stimulating brown fat, which has been linked to improved cardiovascular health and, identified for the first time in this study, psychiatric health.
"The unique reverse translational approach of this study, enabled by large clinical datasets and next-generation analytical tools, provides a much-needed clinical rationale for exploring brown adipose tissue as a therapeutic target in humans across a spectrum of diseases," said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK).
While white fat stores energy in the body, brown fat burns through it to produce heat. Coincidentally, a specific kind of PET/CT imaging often used in clinical oncology can measure this process. By assessing these kinds of images and medical records from more than 50,000 patients being treated for cancer, a research team led by Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., at Rockefeller University recently drew connections between brown fat and reduced prevalence of cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
"We only looked for a few diagnostic codes before, mainly focusing on cardiovascular disease since that's what this tissue has historically been associated with," Cohen said. "The scope of this new analysis is far more expansive. We doubled our number of patients and considered more than 500 codes, which allowed us to unearth many new insights."
Cohen, joined by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers Heiko Schoder, M.D., and Daniel Lafontaine, used artificial intelligence techniques to identify brown fat associations among more than 100,000 patients who received PET/CT imaging for cancer.
The authors built on top of previously known links and have now demonstrated that, in addition to having brown fat or not, a higher degree of brown fat activity is connected to more cardiometabolic benefits. They also discerned these associations across the body's six brown fat depots, with increased activity in the armpit depot being most strongly tied to cardiometabolic health.
They uncovered some new connections as well, including a lower incidence of anxiety and depression in patients with greater brown fat presence. Another signal that stood out was the higher levels of brown fat activity among patients taking ARBs.
To examine the relationship between ARBs and brown fat more closely, the researchers tested the impact of losartan in brown fat cells, finding that the drug directly increased their metabolic activity. They also learned that the molecular interactions by which losartan induced these effects were separate from the mechanisms underpinning its more well-known blood-pressure lowering properties.
"The fact that its different effects are mediated by different molecular pathways is advantageous, since it means we could potentially isolate them in future therapies. That way you would be able to stimulate brown fat in people with normal blood pressure," said first author Nicolas Gomez-Banoy, M.D., an instructor of clinical investigation at Rockefeller and an endocrinologist at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Healthy mice treated with losartan also exhibited many indicators of enhanced metabolism, such as increased energy expenditure, oxygen consumption, and carbon dioxide production, all while maintaining a steady body weight.
These results help form a basis for further investigation into inducing brown fat activity in humans. Depending on the outcome of such potential experiments, future studies could go in many different directions. However, no matter the result, researchers are not short on options.
"There were plenty of other medications associated with brown fat activity in our large cohort. This is just a start," Cohen said.
NIH supported this research through NIDDK grant DP1DK139983, National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant P30CA008748, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) grant T32GM152349, and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) grant UL1TR001866.
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About the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): The NIDDK, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports research on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutrition and obesity; and kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases. Spanning the full spectrum of medicine and afflicting people of all ages and ethnic groups, these diseases encompass some of the most common, severe, and disabling conditions affecting Americans. For more information about the NIDDK and its programs, see www.niddk.nih.gov.
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About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health(R)
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Reference
Nicolas Gomez-Banoy et al. Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat. Nature. October 14, 2026. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-11162-7
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Original text here: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/blood-pressure-drug-may-activate-health-promoting-brown-fat
FCC Resolves Investigation Into Utah Broadband Over Reimbursement Program Certification
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau has entered into a consent decree with FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband, settling an inquiry into statements made within the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program (File No.: EB-FD-26-00041141).
According to the order adopted on Oct. 14, 2026, the company faced scrutiny regarding compliance with section 1.17(a) of the Commission rules. The investigation examined final certifications submitted by the company concerning the disposal of covered communications equipment. While the provider successfully ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau has entered into a consent decree with FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband, settling an inquiry into statements made within the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program (File No.: EB-FD-26-00041141). According to the order adopted on Oct. 14, 2026, the company faced scrutiny regarding compliance with section 1.17(a) of the Commission rules. The investigation examined final certifications submitted by the company concerning the disposal of covered communications equipment. While the provider successfullyremoved and replaced equipment from its network, two units of Huawei S5720-EI equipment--valued at $11,716.20--disappeared during transit to a recycling vendor.
Because the company could not confirm the final destruction of those specific units, its certification claiming complete disposal contained inaccuracies. Agency officials noted that the provider did not seek reimbursement for the lost hardware, and no prohibited equipment remained active in its network. However, the absence of final disposal records prompted the inquiry.
Under the terms of the agreement, the company acknowledges the factual findings and agrees to pay an $11,716.20 voluntary contribution to the United States Treasury within thirty calendar days. Enforcement Bureau Chief Hunter P. Deeley and company representative Shem Valentine, Vice President of Network and Software, executed the consent decree, concluding the matter without setting aside the provider's basic qualifications to hold licenses.
-- Vidhi Gianani, Targeted News Service
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FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband is based in Draper, Utah.
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URL: FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband
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Original text here: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-1055A1.pdf
According to the order adopted on Oct. 14, 2026, the company faced scrutiny regarding compliance with section 1.17(a) of the Commission rules. The investigation examined final certifications submitted by the company concerning the disposal of covered communications equipment. While the provider successfully ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau has entered into a consent decree with FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband, settling an inquiry into statements made within the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program (File No.: EB-FD-26-00041141). According to the order adopted on Oct. 14, 2026, the company faced scrutiny regarding compliance with section 1.17(a) of the Commission rules. The investigation examined final certifications submitted by the company concerning the disposal of covered communications equipment. While the provider successfullyremoved and replaced equipment from its network, two units of Huawei S5720-EI equipment--valued at $11,716.20--disappeared during transit to a recycling vendor.
Because the company could not confirm the final destruction of those specific units, its certification claiming complete disposal contained inaccuracies. Agency officials noted that the provider did not seek reimbursement for the lost hardware, and no prohibited equipment remained active in its network. However, the absence of final disposal records prompted the inquiry.
Under the terms of the agreement, the company acknowledges the factual findings and agrees to pay an $11,716.20 voluntary contribution to the United States Treasury within thirty calendar days. Enforcement Bureau Chief Hunter P. Deeley and company representative Shem Valentine, Vice President of Network and Software, executed the consent decree, concluding the matter without setting aside the provider's basic qualifications to hold licenses.
-- Vidhi Gianani, Targeted News Service
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FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband is based in Draper, Utah.
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URL: FIF Utah LLC dba Utah Broadband
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Original text here: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-1055A1.pdf
Comptroller Gould Discusses Findings of Debanking Report
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSxrep) -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release:
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Comptroller Gould Discusses Findings of Debanking Report
Meets with Impacted Kentucky Coal and Firearm Industry Representatives
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WASHINGTON--Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould today discussed findings of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's newly-released report on large banks' debanking activities during a press conference held in Lexington, Kentucky, with U.S. Congressman Andy Barr.
During the event, ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSxrep) -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release: * * * October 14, 2026 Comptroller Gould Discusses Findings of Debanking Report Meets with Impacted Kentucky Coal and Firearm Industry Representatives - WASHINGTON--Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould today discussed findings of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's newly-released report on large banks' debanking activities during a press conference held in Lexington, Kentucky, with U.S. Congressman Andy Barr. During the event,representatives of local Kentucky coal and firearms industries provided insights about the specific impacts of the debanking practices to their businesses.
Excerpts from Comptroller Gould's remarks are below. His full statement can be found here (https://occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ-2026-91a.pdf).
On Ensuring Fair Access to Financial Services for All Americans
The President directed federal banking regulators to examine whether financial institutions had denied Americans access to banking services because of their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities. Thanks to his leadership as well as that of U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent, we are continuing to take steps to ensure that all Americans have fair access to the financial services they need to finance mortgages, fund small businesses, and support their families.
On Report Findings
We found that all of these banks had adopted reputation risk policies at various levels which allowed political considerations, public opinion, and social pressures to influence who banks deemed not worthy to access financial services. Americans were denied banking services because of their political or religious affiliations and entire industries faced scrutiny due to the fact that their lawful business activities were considered "controversial" by some banks or their employees. What began as decisions made by executives to debank disfavored industries became institutionalized and opaque bureaucracies that empowered bank employees to cut off industries and persons from financial services or created procedural frictions that achieved the same result as a practical matter.
On Specific Impacts to Coal and Firearms Industries
Our review found that many of the banks maintained policies restricting financing for new or expanded coal mining operations and coal-fired power plants. Some went even further, restricting financial services to companies based on how much of their revenue is derived from coal. These decisions were not based on financial risk; instead, banks cited concerns about negative headlines, public protests, and the perceived reputational consequences of supporting the industry.
We found similar practices affecting the firearms industry. Several banks restricted financing for firearms manufacturers and retailers. In one instance, a bank denied a firearms business assistance with an initial public offering because the company's policies governing lawful firearms sales did not align with the bank's own standards. Banks should not be denying customers for activities protected by the constitution of the United States.
We are not forcing these banks to serve every customer. Instead, banks should evaluate every customer on objective, risk-based criteria.
On OCC Continuing Efforts to Eliminate Debanking
At the OCC, we have eliminated reputation risk from our supervisory framework. As our report makes clear, there is more work to do to ensure that Americans are not denied financial services simply because of their beliefs or that their businesses have fallen out of favor.
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Original text here: https://occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ-2026-91.html
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October 14, 2026
Comptroller Gould Discusses Findings of Debanking Report
Meets with Impacted Kentucky Coal and Firearm Industry Representatives
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WASHINGTON--Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould today discussed findings of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's newly-released report on large banks' debanking activities during a press conference held in Lexington, Kentucky, with U.S. Congressman Andy Barr.
During the event, ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSxrep) -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release: * * * October 14, 2026 Comptroller Gould Discusses Findings of Debanking Report Meets with Impacted Kentucky Coal and Firearm Industry Representatives - WASHINGTON--Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould today discussed findings of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's newly-released report on large banks' debanking activities during a press conference held in Lexington, Kentucky, with U.S. Congressman Andy Barr. During the event,representatives of local Kentucky coal and firearms industries provided insights about the specific impacts of the debanking practices to their businesses.
Excerpts from Comptroller Gould's remarks are below. His full statement can be found here (https://occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ-2026-91a.pdf).
On Ensuring Fair Access to Financial Services for All Americans
The President directed federal banking regulators to examine whether financial institutions had denied Americans access to banking services because of their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities. Thanks to his leadership as well as that of U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent, we are continuing to take steps to ensure that all Americans have fair access to the financial services they need to finance mortgages, fund small businesses, and support their families.
On Report Findings
We found that all of these banks had adopted reputation risk policies at various levels which allowed political considerations, public opinion, and social pressures to influence who banks deemed not worthy to access financial services. Americans were denied banking services because of their political or religious affiliations and entire industries faced scrutiny due to the fact that their lawful business activities were considered "controversial" by some banks or their employees. What began as decisions made by executives to debank disfavored industries became institutionalized and opaque bureaucracies that empowered bank employees to cut off industries and persons from financial services or created procedural frictions that achieved the same result as a practical matter.
On Specific Impacts to Coal and Firearms Industries
Our review found that many of the banks maintained policies restricting financing for new or expanded coal mining operations and coal-fired power plants. Some went even further, restricting financial services to companies based on how much of their revenue is derived from coal. These decisions were not based on financial risk; instead, banks cited concerns about negative headlines, public protests, and the perceived reputational consequences of supporting the industry.
We found similar practices affecting the firearms industry. Several banks restricted financing for firearms manufacturers and retailers. In one instance, a bank denied a firearms business assistance with an initial public offering because the company's policies governing lawful firearms sales did not align with the bank's own standards. Banks should not be denying customers for activities protected by the constitution of the United States.
We are not forcing these banks to serve every customer. Instead, banks should evaluate every customer on objective, risk-based criteria.
On OCC Continuing Efforts to Eliminate Debanking
At the OCC, we have eliminated reputation risk from our supervisory framework. As our report makes clear, there is more work to do to ensure that Americans are not denied financial services simply because of their beliefs or that their businesses have fallen out of favor.
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Original text here: https://occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ-2026-91.html
BLS Southeast Region Issues Report on Consumer Price Index, South Region September 2026
ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Consumer Price Index, South Region September 2026 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Southeast Region - Oct. 14, 2026
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Regional prices increased 0.5 percent in September, up 3.4 percent over the year
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the South region increased 0.5 percent in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The index for energy rose 3.6 percent over the month. The all items less food and energy index increased 0.3 percent in September while index for food ... Show Full Article ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Consumer Price Index, South Region September 2026 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Southeast Region - Oct. 14, 2026 * * * Regional prices increased 0.5 percent in September, up 3.4 percent over the year - The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the South region increased 0.5 percent in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The index for energy rose 3.6 percent over the month. The all items less food and energy index increased 0.3 percent in September while index for foodrose 0.3 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect the impact of seasonal influences.)
The South all items CPI-U advanced 3.4 percent for the 12 months ending in September. The index for all items less food and energy rose 2.1 percent over the last 12 months. The energy index increased 20.1 percent for the 12 months ending September. The food index rose 2.2 percent over the last year.
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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, South region, September 2023-September 2026
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Food
The food index increased 0.3 percent in September. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) rose 0.3 percent over the pricing period. Four of the six major grocery store food group indexes increased in September, including cereals and bakery products (+1.1 percent). The index for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) rose 0.2 percent over the month.
Food prices advanced 2.2 percent over the year. The food away from home index rose 3.1 percent over the past year. The food at home index increased 1.7 percent for the 12 months ending September as prices increased in 5 of the 6 major grocery store food groups.
Energy
The index for energy increased 3.6 percent over the month. The gasoline index rose 7.0 percent over the same period. The index for electricity declined 0.8 percent and the natural gas index fell 0.5 percent in September.
The energy index advanced 20.1 percent for the 12 months ending September. The gasoline index increased 37.5 percent over this 12-month span. The electricity index rose 1.9 percent, and the natural gas index rose 8.2 percent over the year.
All items less food and energy
The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.3 percent in September. The shelter index increased 0.4 percent over the month, led by a 0.3-percent increase in the owners' equivalent rent index.
The index for all items less food and energy rose 2.1 percent over the last 12 months. The shelter index and the index for owners' equivalent rent both increased 2.3 percent over the last year.
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The October 2026 Consumer Price Index for the South Region is scheduled to be released on November 10, 2026.
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Technical Note
The Consumer Price Index (https://www.bls.gov/cpi) (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Consumer Price Index for the South region is published monthly. The set of components and sub-aggregates published for regional and metropolitan indexes is more limited than at the U.S. city average level; these indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program.
The South region is comprised of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Refer to the national CPI news release technical note (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/technical-notes/) or the Handbook of Methods 9https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi) for more information.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
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Table 1. South region CPI-U by expenditure category for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Table 2. South region CPI-U by special aggregate index for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
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View original text plus charts and tables here: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southeast/news-release/2026/consumerpriceindex_south_20261014.htm
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Regional prices increased 0.5 percent in September, up 3.4 percent over the year
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the South region increased 0.5 percent in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The index for energy rose 3.6 percent over the month. The all items less food and energy index increased 0.3 percent in September while index for food ... Show Full Article ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Consumer Price Index, South Region September 2026 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Southeast Region - Oct. 14, 2026 * * * Regional prices increased 0.5 percent in September, up 3.4 percent over the year - The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the South region increased 0.5 percent in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The index for energy rose 3.6 percent over the month. The all items less food and energy index increased 0.3 percent in September while index for foodrose 0.3 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect the impact of seasonal influences.)
The South all items CPI-U advanced 3.4 percent for the 12 months ending in September. The index for all items less food and energy rose 2.1 percent over the last 12 months. The energy index increased 20.1 percent for the 12 months ending September. The food index rose 2.2 percent over the last year.
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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, South region, September 2023-September 2026
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Food
The food index increased 0.3 percent in September. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) rose 0.3 percent over the pricing period. Four of the six major grocery store food group indexes increased in September, including cereals and bakery products (+1.1 percent). The index for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) rose 0.2 percent over the month.
Food prices advanced 2.2 percent over the year. The food away from home index rose 3.1 percent over the past year. The food at home index increased 1.7 percent for the 12 months ending September as prices increased in 5 of the 6 major grocery store food groups.
Energy
The index for energy increased 3.6 percent over the month. The gasoline index rose 7.0 percent over the same period. The index for electricity declined 0.8 percent and the natural gas index fell 0.5 percent in September.
The energy index advanced 20.1 percent for the 12 months ending September. The gasoline index increased 37.5 percent over this 12-month span. The electricity index rose 1.9 percent, and the natural gas index rose 8.2 percent over the year.
All items less food and energy
The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.3 percent in September. The shelter index increased 0.4 percent over the month, led by a 0.3-percent increase in the owners' equivalent rent index.
The index for all items less food and energy rose 2.1 percent over the last 12 months. The shelter index and the index for owners' equivalent rent both increased 2.3 percent over the last year.
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The October 2026 Consumer Price Index for the South Region is scheduled to be released on November 10, 2026.
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Technical Note
The Consumer Price Index (https://www.bls.gov/cpi) (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Consumer Price Index for the South region is published monthly. The set of components and sub-aggregates published for regional and metropolitan indexes is more limited than at the U.S. city average level; these indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program.
The South region is comprised of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Refer to the national CPI news release technical note (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/technical-notes/) or the Handbook of Methods 9https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi) for more information.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
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Table 1. South region CPI-U by expenditure category for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Table 2. South region CPI-U by special aggregate index for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
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View original text plus charts and tables here: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southeast/news-release/2026/consumerpriceindex_south_20261014.htm
BLS Mountain-Plains Region Issues Report on Consumer Price Index, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Area September 2026
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Consumer Price Index, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Area September 2026 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Mountain-Plains Region - Oct. 14, 2026
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Area prices rose 1.2 percent in August and September, up 4.0 percent over the year
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area increased 1.2 percent for the two months ending in September 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. Regional Commissioner James B. Howard, Jr., noted that the index for all ... Show Full Article KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Consumer Price Index, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Area September 2026 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Mountain-Plains Region - Oct. 14, 2026 * * * Area prices rose 1.2 percent in August and September, up 4.0 percent over the year - The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area increased 1.2 percent for the two months ending in September 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. Regional Commissioner James B. Howard, Jr., noted that the index for allitems less food and energy increased 1.0 percent, and the index for energy rose 5.8 percent. The index for food was up 1.1 percent over the two-month period. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)
The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area all items CPI-U increased 4.0 percent for the 12 months ending in September. The index for all items less food and energy was up 3.6 percent over the year. Energy prices advanced 18.9 percent, while food prices rose 3.1 percent.
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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, September 2023-September 2026
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Food
The food index rose 1.1 percent for the two months ending in September. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) advanced 1.5 percent, and the food away from home index (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) increased 0.5 percent for the same period. Within the food at home category, the indexes for other food at home (+2.7 percent), fruits and vegetables (+2.5 percent), and meats, poultry, fish and eggs (+2.0 percent) contributed most to the increase. The index for dairy and related products fell 2.0 percent over the two-month period.
Food prices advanced 3.1 percent over the year. Prices for food away from home rose 3.8 percent, and prices for food at home increased 2.7 percent. Five of the six grocery store categories rose over the year, with the index for fruits and vegetables (+8.1 percent) leading the increases.
Energy
The energy index rose 5.8 percent for the two months ending in September. The gasoline index increased 8.2 percent over the two-month period.
From September 2025 to September 2026, energy prices advanced 18.9 percent. Over the same period, gasoline prices increased 29.0 percent.
All items less food and energy
The index for all items less food and energy advanced 1.0 percent during the two-month period. Among the index's components, prices were higher for shelter (+1.5 percent) and apparel (+3.7 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for recreation (-1.0 percent) and other goods and services (-0.8 percent).
The index for all items less food and energy increased 3.6 percent over the year. Components contributing to the increase included owners' equivalent rent of residences (+2.7 percent), medical care (+3.0 percent), and education and communication (+3.8 percent).
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The November 2026 Consumer Price Index for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area is scheduled to be released on Thursday, December 10, 2026.
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Technical Note
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) (https://www.bls.gov/cpi) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Consumer Price Index for Denver is published bi-monthly. The set of components and sub-aggregates published for regional and metropolitan indexes is more limited than at the U.S. city average level; these indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program. Each local index has a much smaller sample size than the national or regional indexes and is, therefore, subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error. As a result, local-area indexes are more volatile than the national or regional indexes. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.
The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, Core Based Statistical Area is comprised of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson, and Park counties in Colorado.
Refer to the national CPI news release technical note (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/technical-notes/) or the Handbook of Methods (https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi) for more information.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
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Table 1. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, CPI-U by expenditure category for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Table 2. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, CPI-U by special aggregate index for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
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View original text plus charts and tables here: https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/news-release/2026/consumerpriceindex_denver_20261014.htm
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Area prices rose 1.2 percent in August and September, up 4.0 percent over the year
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area increased 1.2 percent for the two months ending in September 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. Regional Commissioner James B. Howard, Jr., noted that the index for all ... Show Full Article KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Consumer Price Index, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Area September 2026 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Mountain-Plains Region - Oct. 14, 2026 * * * Area prices rose 1.2 percent in August and September, up 4.0 percent over the year - The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area increased 1.2 percent for the two months ending in September 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. Regional Commissioner James B. Howard, Jr., noted that the index for allitems less food and energy increased 1.0 percent, and the index for energy rose 5.8 percent. The index for food was up 1.1 percent over the two-month period. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)
The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area all items CPI-U increased 4.0 percent for the 12 months ending in September. The index for all items less food and energy was up 3.6 percent over the year. Energy prices advanced 18.9 percent, while food prices rose 3.1 percent.
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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, September 2023-September 2026
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Food
The food index rose 1.1 percent for the two months ending in September. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) advanced 1.5 percent, and the food away from home index (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) increased 0.5 percent for the same period. Within the food at home category, the indexes for other food at home (+2.7 percent), fruits and vegetables (+2.5 percent), and meats, poultry, fish and eggs (+2.0 percent) contributed most to the increase. The index for dairy and related products fell 2.0 percent over the two-month period.
Food prices advanced 3.1 percent over the year. Prices for food away from home rose 3.8 percent, and prices for food at home increased 2.7 percent. Five of the six grocery store categories rose over the year, with the index for fruits and vegetables (+8.1 percent) leading the increases.
Energy
The energy index rose 5.8 percent for the two months ending in September. The gasoline index increased 8.2 percent over the two-month period.
From September 2025 to September 2026, energy prices advanced 18.9 percent. Over the same period, gasoline prices increased 29.0 percent.
All items less food and energy
The index for all items less food and energy advanced 1.0 percent during the two-month period. Among the index's components, prices were higher for shelter (+1.5 percent) and apparel (+3.7 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for recreation (-1.0 percent) and other goods and services (-0.8 percent).
The index for all items less food and energy increased 3.6 percent over the year. Components contributing to the increase included owners' equivalent rent of residences (+2.7 percent), medical care (+3.0 percent), and education and communication (+3.8 percent).
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The November 2026 Consumer Price Index for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area is scheduled to be released on Thursday, December 10, 2026.
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Technical Note
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) (https://www.bls.gov/cpi) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Consumer Price Index for Denver is published bi-monthly. The set of components and sub-aggregates published for regional and metropolitan indexes is more limited than at the U.S. city average level; these indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program. Each local index has a much smaller sample size than the national or regional indexes and is, therefore, subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error. As a result, local-area indexes are more volatile than the national or regional indexes. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.
The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, Core Based Statistical Area is comprised of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson, and Park counties in Colorado.
Refer to the national CPI news release technical note (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/technical-notes/) or the Handbook of Methods (https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi) for more information.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
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Table 1. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, CPI-U by expenditure category for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Table 2. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, CPI-U by special aggregate index for September 2026, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
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View original text plus charts and tables here: https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/news-release/2026/consumerpriceindex_denver_20261014.htm