Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is visiting Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility and SpaceX’s Starbase site in Brownsville today as part of a broader tour of U.S. defense industry operations.
The Pentagon says the stops are part of the “Arsenal of Freedom” tour Hegseth launched last fall.
“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. 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,” the Department of War wrote in a statement…