{"id":33828,"date":"2026-08-09T03:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33828"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:42:14","slug":"the-u-s-army-is-fast-tracking-new-weapons-as-trump-denies-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33828","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Army Is Fast-Tracking New Weapons as Trump Denies Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Driscoll acknowledged that he was inspired, in part, by <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/27\/defense-innovation-drones-ground-robot-army-ukraine\/\" target=\"undefined\">Ukraine\u2019s rapid response<\/a> to diminished support from its allies, leading to a rapid expansion of missile and drone manufacturing startups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cIf you look at what Ukraine has done so incredibly well, it\u2019s this innovation through necessity, and it\u2019s innovation at the speed that is near or close to matching the commercial sector,\u201d Driscoll said. \u201cSo what we, the Army, are trying to do is break down every single barrier that we have put up over the last 20 or 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Major aerospace players such as <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time100-companies-2023\/6285198\/lockheed-martin\/\" target=\"undefined\">Lockheed Martin<\/a> and Boeing, as well as arms-makers like General Dynamics, have long been the country\u2019s go-to for defense contracts. But Hegseth\u2019s DoD has more recently strived to increase production by incentivizing smaller companies and startups to build cheap-yet-effective weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">For its G-BAM Challenge, the Pentagon said it is seeking long-range precision-strike systems that can be demonstrated within 60 to 90 days and scaled into production within 12 to 18 months. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diu.mil\/\" target=\"undefined\">website<\/a> stated that weapons must have a target cost of less than $250,000 apiece at scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driscoll acknowledged that he was inspired, in part, by Ukraine\u2019s rapid response to diminished support from its allies, leading to a rapid expansion of missile and drone manufacturing startups. \u201cIf you look at what Ukraine has done so incredibly well, it\u2019s this innovation through necessity, and it\u2019s innovation at the speed that is near or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.time.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blte91206d1134d1255\/6a77a64a14408020a7cc7add\/AP26219579588097.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}