{"id":511351,"date":"2026-01-12T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511351\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:53:32","slug":"defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-to-visit-lockheed-martin-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511351\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to visit Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">U.S. Secretary of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/world\/2025\/12\/19\/hegseth-announces-start-of-effort-to-eliminate-isis-fighters-weapons-sites-in-syria\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/world\/2025\/12\/19\/hegseth-announces-start-of-effort-to-eliminate-isis-fighters-weapons-sites-in-syria\/\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> will travel to Texas on Monday to visit Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth and SpaceX  near Brownsville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The visits are part of Hegseth\u2019s \u201cArsenal of Freedom\u201d tour, which the Pentagon said is intended to \u201cfuel a revival of our defense industrial base, ensuring it can supply America\u2019s finest with technologically superior products at the speed of relevance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Hegseth will deliver remarks to SpaceX workers alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/01\/07\/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-is-creating-the-kind-of-deepfake-porn-ted-cruz-fought-to-ban\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/01\/07\/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-is-creating-the-kind-of-deepfake-porn-ted-cruz-fought-to-ban\/\">CEO Elon Musk<\/a> at the Starbase facility in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In Fort Worth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/national\/2025\/01\/24\/lockheed-martin-scraps-dei-programs-amid-pressure-from-president-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/national\/2025\/01\/24\/lockheed-martin-scraps-dei-programs-amid-pressure-from-president-trump\/\">Lockheed Martin<\/a> builds the F-35 fighter jet for the U.S. and foreign allies. The program has an estimated annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f35.com\/f35\/about\/economic-impact.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic impact of $72 billion and provides more than 250,000 advanced manufacturing jobs<\/a>, according to Lockheed Martin. In the Fort Worth area, the program supports more than 49,000 direct and indirect jobs and $9.4 billion in annual economic impact.<\/p>\n<p>Political Points<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest politics news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In 2024, Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2024\/11\/25\/pentagon-lockheed-reach-handshake-deal-for-next-f-35s\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reached an initial agreement<\/a> to build more F-35s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The U.S. Government Accountability Office says the F-35 \u201cplays a crucial role\u201d in the Department of Defense\u2019s \u201cability to meet current and future U.S. national security goals,\u201d but at the same time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/blog\/f-35-will-now-exceed-2-trillion-military-plans-fly-it-less\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">program has seen production problems and rising costs as the U.S. military plans to use the jet less<\/a>. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/2026\/01\/12\/letters-to-the-editor-bobcats-gen-george-marshall-greenland-att-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters to the Editor \u2014 Bobcats, Gen. George Marshall, Greenland, AT&amp;T, Venezuela<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/2026\/01\/10\/letters-to-the-editor-rainbow-steps-ice-arrests-capt-mark-kelly-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters to the Editor \u2014 Rainbow steps, ICE arrests, Capt. Mark Kelly, free speech<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will travel to Texas on Monday to visit Lockheed Martin in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,80,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,36790],"class_list":{"0":"post-511351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-veterans-and-military"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115883409726260995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}