{"id":120141,"date":"2026-01-12T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120141\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:43:15","slug":"pete-hegseth-to-visit-lockheed-martin-plant-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120141\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth to visit Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yz4sghtbrtzb8wdg.jpg\" alt=\"US Sec. of War Pete Hegseth to be in Fort Worth today\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will be in North Texas today as part of a tour billed as &#8220;a revival of our Defense Industrial Base&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Pete Hegseth will visit Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Fort Worth F-35 production plant this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The visit is billed as part of his \u2018Arsenal of Freedom&#8221; industry tour, designed to advance President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Peace Through Strength&#8221; agenda.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He will address Lockheed Martin employees and the local press on the administration&#8217;s defense plans.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Following the visit, Hegseth will depart for Brownsville, Texas to visit SpaceX alongside Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Previous visits on the tour include a Rocket Lab manufacturing plant in Long Beach, California.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;For 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,&#8221; the Department of War said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Under 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,&#8221; the release continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article came from press releases from the Department of War and Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/military\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Military<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will be in North Texas today as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2672,223,287,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-120141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120141","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=120141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}