The Pentagon is pushing ahead with rebuilding the defense industrial base by asking weapons manufacturers to share plans for how they will increase weapons production and speed up their delivery schedules.
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote to industry leaders on Aug. 5, giving them no more than 21 days to submit plans to “drive significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,” according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.
“Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.”
In an Aug. 9 email to The Epoch Times, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed Feinberg’s memo seeking a rapid escalation of weapons production is real, adding that it “will inform the fiscal year 2028 budget submitted to Congress for funding, and it is entirely consistent with our ongoing push to rebuild the defense industrial base.”…
Pentagon Asks Industry Leaders to Report Plans to Boost Weapons Production
