{"id":120097,"date":"2026-01-12T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120097\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:05:50","slug":"pete-hegseth-us-secretary-of-war-to-visit-fort-worths-lockheed-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120097\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth, US secretary of War, to visit Fort Worth\u2019s Lockheed Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pete Hegseth, the U.S. secretary of war, will visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lockheed Martin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lockheed Martin<\/a> in Fort Worth on Monday as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SpaceX;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SpaceX<\/a> in Brownsville, where \u201cpatriots work tirelessly, not with rifles, but with hardhats and relentless dedication, to ensure our military remains the most lethal and capable fighting force in the world,\u201d the Pentagon said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hegseth will deliver remarks to SpaceX employees alongside Elon Musk, the company\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is part of Hegseth\u2019s \u201cArsenal of Freedom\u201d tour and a \u201cdirect follow-up to Secretary Hegseth\u2019s call to action delivered to defense executives last fall at Fort McNair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFor too long, Pentagon bureaucracy has hindered the speed and might of our manufacturing base, obstructing innovation and warfare solutions from companies like SpaceX and Lockheed Martin,\u201d the Department of War said in a statement Sunday. \u201cUnder the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, we are unleashing the full power of our Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to advance our Peace Through Strength agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pentagon described Monday\u2019s event as Hegseth\u2019s \u201cthird major speech\u201d since he was sworn in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis tour is intended to fuel a revival of our Defense Industrial Base, ensuring it can supply America\u2019s finest with technologically superior products at the speed of relevance, the statement said. \u201cThis guarantees our dominance not just for today, but for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lockheed Martin\u2019s Fort Worth facility builds the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet for the Pentagon and foreign allies. In December, the company rolled out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article313754513.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:first in a series of F-35A jets for Finland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">first in a series of F-35A jets for Finland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The F-35 is the most economically significant defense program in history, according to Lockheed, creating 290,000 U.S. jobs and contributing $72 billion to the economy annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lockheed Martin has a $17.7 billion payroll in Texas, and the F-35 production facility in Fort Worth employs roughly 19,200 technicians, mechanics, engineers and support staff, and relies on nearly 900 Texas suppliers. The program has con<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortworthchamber.com\/fort-worth-chamber-urges-senate-support-for-f-35-program\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tributed $7 billion in;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">tributed $7 billion in<\/a> local economic benefits, according to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, and supported over 30,000 jobs in the greater Fort Worth economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth, the U.S. secretary of war, will visit Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth on Monday as well&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52319,52317,116,118,117,4020,3310,7678,52318,2223,15103],"class_list":["post-120097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-defense-industrial-base","tag-fort-mcnair","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-president-trump","tag-secretary-hegseth","tag-spacex","tag-the-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}