{"id":439756,"date":"2026-09-18T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439756\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:36:16","slug":"us-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-to-visit-austin-tech-companies-attend-texas-am-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439756\/","title":{"rendered":"US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to visit Austin tech companies, attend Texas A&#038;M football game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visit comes days after the U.S. House postponed a vote on his impeachment. <\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will visit two technology companies in Austin before traveling to College Station on Saturday for the Texas A&amp;M-Kentucky football game.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes days <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/house-recess-johnson-massie-impeachment-hegseth-epstein-3ace27e682dd85c0146df79189be119c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the U.S. House postponed a vote<\/a> on his impeachment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth will visit two Austin-based companies: Capital Factory, a startup incubator and coworking hub, and Saronic Technologies, a defense technology company that designs and manufactures Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs), on Friday. He is set to deliver remarks to the workforce and its leaders as part of the &#8220;Arsenal of Freedom Tour.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth will then make his way over to the Austin Armed Forces Reserve Center to administer the oath of enlistment to new recruits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then on Saturday, Hegseth is set to head to College Station to speak to the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&amp;M and to tour the Veterans Resource Center. While at Texas A&amp;M, Hegseth is also set to attend the Aggies football game at 2:30 p.m. CT, where the school is expected to honor POW\/MIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The visit comes days after the U.S. House postponed a vote on his impeachment. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-439756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439756","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=439756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}