{"id":55024,"date":"2025-09-29T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55024"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:44:19","slug":"pentagon-reportedly-urges-missile-makers-to-double-output-for-potential-china-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/pentagon-reportedly-urges-missile-makers-to-double-output-for-potential-china-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Reportedly Urges Missile Makers to Double Output for Potential China Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is urging defense contractors to double or quadruple production rates focusing on 12 critical weapons due to concerns over low US stockpiles in a potential conflict with China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a Reuters&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The push to speed production of the critical weapons in the highest demand has played out through a series of high-level meetings between Pentagon leaders and senior representatives from several US missile makers, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg is taking an unusually hands-on role in the effort, called the Munitions Acceleration Council, and calls some company executives weekly to discuss it, some of the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is urging defense contractors to double or quadruple production rates focusing on 12 critical weapons due to concerns over low US stockpiles in a potential conflict with China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The Pentagon did not immediately &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55028,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55024\/revisions\/55028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}