Twenty-six days after the Pentagon’s deadline for defense companies to propose faster weapons production, the Defense Department has not publicly disclosed how many companies responded or what production timelines they offered.Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg gave industry leaders until Aug. 26 to submit plans for “significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,” according to his Aug. 5 memo.Feinberg directed companies to identify ways to accelerate production and delivery, propose capital investments and facility expansions and explain how the Pentagon could enable higher production. The memo identified 16 critical programs under consideration for accelerated production or increased procurement. The responses were intended to inform the department’s fiscal 2028 budget request. The request came as the use of U.S. weapons during the Iran war put pressure on stocks of air-defense interceptors and other precision munitions. U.S. inventories of Patriot interceptors had fallen from about 2,330 before the war to between 759 and 827 by the end of July, according to a Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis. THAAD stocks had fallen from 452 to between 234 and 278. CSIS estimated production timelines of about 42 months for PAC-3 MSE interceptors and 53 months for THAAD interceptors.The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Conservatives are pushing back after Rep. Ilhan Omar. D-Minn., introduced legislation that would redirect over $100 billion in funds previously allocated to immigration enforcement and “invest it into communities across the country that have been impacted by the Department of Homeland Security’s heinous operations.”Omar explained in a press release Thursday that her Make ICE Pay Act is a response to “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota and that it would send nearly $140 billion of ICE and Border Patrol funding from Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act toward “local recovery efforts” from immigration enforcement that has taken place across the country.Omar says the funding will be used by local jurisdictions to provide economic relief and distribute money through the states to nonprofits, small businesses and other impacted entities to support schools, healthcare and psychological services, increased local-government expenses, investigations and memorialization efforts. The program would be administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, overseen by its inspector general and expire three years after its creation.”ICE has been tearing through our nation, devastating our neighborhoods, our cities, and our businesses,” Omar posted on X about the legislation. “Our communities deserve accountability.…

The Army is throwing its weight behind new and emerging construction methods to cut building costs by 30%, according to a recent memo obtained by Army Times. But it’s also halving building lifespans, with a plan that calls for new builds to last just 25 years instead of the traditional 50.The memo, published July 31 and signed by W. Jordan Gillis, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, directs “the adoption of installation resilience through Industrialized Construction” through use of construction methods like 3D printing, rapidly deployed tent-like tension fabric structures, parts kits, and pre-engineered steel structures.“The intent is to accelerate the delivery of critical infrastructure, reduce initial capital costs, and increase the flexibility of the Army’s real property portfolio to meet rapidly evolving warfighter requirements,” the memo states, adding that “traditional design-bid-build processes and on-site construction methods are too slow and costly to keep pace with modem operational requirements.”The goal, the memo continues, is to reduce building costs by 30% while cutting construction time in half. But these new buildings aren’t intended to stand for half a century like their predecessors.“Historically, Army facilities have been engineered for 50-year lifespans, often becoming functionally obsolete before structurally deficient,”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Recent reporting about a British naval drone unknowingly sending data to China offers an urgent warning to policymakers in the United States.During a routine cybersecurity assessment, the U.K. Ministry of Defence exposed a serious breach. It found that a component in its naval drones was secretly transmitting data to China. The drone was British. The hidden vulnerability was not.CHINESE DRONE MONOPOLY PUT ON NOTICE AMID CONCERNS OVER CCP SPYING: ‘STRATEGIC MISTAKE’To be clear, this is part of Beijing’s playbook. It uses intellectual-property theft, cyberespionage and industrial policy to become indispensable to Western supply chains and then exploits that access to collect intelligence and create vulnerabilities it can use against its adversaries.Our standard response has been to restrict Chinese technology only after the risks become impossible to ignore, often spending billions of dollars to rip and replace equipment already embedded in American networks and infrastructure.CHINESE ESPIONAGE STEALS $600 BILLION FROM US FIRMS YEARLY. IT’S TIME FOR GOVERNMENT TO ACT Now, Beijing has its sights on conducting widespread espionage and sabotage in another sector – automobiles. But this time, America has the opportunity to act before it’s too late.China is now the world’s largest…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ancient human remains that turned a couple’s home renovation into a crime investigation have finally been laid to rest — with the homeowner recently speaking out about the ordeal.Ross Sledger, 49, was at work in spring 2019 when a builder working on a kitchen addition at his home unearthed what appeared to be human bones, news agency SWNS reported.The remains were formally re-interred this August during a ceremony at a church near Sledger’s home in Wye, Kent, in southeastern England.ANCIENT ‘SEATED’ SKELETONS UNEARTHED BENEATH MODERN SCHOOL SITE, PUZZLING ARCHAEOLOGISTSSledger said he initially thought little of the discovery, assuming the bones belonged to a farm animal or pet, SWNS reported. “[The builder] said, ‘I’ve found some bones,’ and I said, ‘Great,’ thinking it was farming or pets,” Sledger said. Sledger said he was stunned to learn the remains could be human.”As you can imagine, a lot of language came out of my mouth. I was thinking, ‘You must be joking, this is a wind-up,’ but he said, ‘I’m deadly serious,'” Sledger recalled. AIRBNB GUESTS CHECK INTO THEIR RENTAL TO FIND STARTLING DISCOVERY ON WALLThe bones, later determined to be Anglo-Saxon remains roughly 1,000 years old,…

Atlanta Falcons star Drake London didn’t want to hear anything from anyone as they were getting blown out by the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.The FOX broadcast caught London yelling back at a fan who was apparently shouting at him in the third quarter as the Falcons trailed 34-3. The wide receiver had some team personnel around him as he pointed at the fan and yelled back at him.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! It appeared London was shouting expletives.London addressed the outburst in the postgame press conference as Atlanta dropped the game 34-3.”I’m going to be honest here, I don’t take light to disrespect at all,” he said, via ESPN. “I don’t care who you are. I’m a man, too, at the end of the day. So, if you want to get on a personal level, I can get there, too, but it’s not the right thing to do. So, I got to take accountability for that, and I got to push forward and be the bigger man in some of those situations.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE It was a brutal game all around for the Falcons.Atlanta’s terrible quarterback situation appeared worse…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Beijing has transformed the Red Sea into a dangerous surveillance hub, a former Pentagon official warned Sunday, after a new report revealed upgrades to China’s military footprint just six miles from a key $66 million-a-year U.S. military base in Djibouti, Africa.The report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) cited new facilities which it said would likely enable the Chinese military to monitor activities of other militaries operating nearby, although it also clarified it was not possible to determine whether China was actively intercepting communications.The developments, one defense expert told Fox News Digital, could also inject fresh tension into U.S.-China relations in the run-up to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House on Sept. 24. Beijing’s intelligence-gathering capabilities are already under renewed scrutiny.”What China is clearly doing is building eavesdropping capabilities. That seems to be their aim,” Morgan Murphy, former Trump White House official and press secretary for Mark Esper when he was secretary of defense during the first Trump administration.CHINA-LINKED SPY SITE EXPANSION IN CUBA RAISES ALARMS NEAR KEY US MILITARY BASES “Beijing has clearly wiretapped the Red Sea. When you build a 30-meter (100-foot-wide) satellite…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Six months into the war, the central question about Iran’s regime is no longer its missile arsenal, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) ability to menace the Strait of Hormuz, or how long the confrontation can endure. The deeper question is political and historical: Who governs Iran? Is it Mojtaba Khamenei, whose position at the apex of the system remains opaque; Masoud Pezeshkian, whose office of president was never designed to hold sovereign power; or the IRGC, which after decades of accumulating military, intelligence and economic authority may have become the state’s true center of gravity?Iran increasingly resembles not a Shiite theocracy protected by soldiers, but a militarized dictatorship in which the notorious clerical establishment provides ideological cover for the men with guns.The Shiite Republic or Islamic Caliphate of mullahs emerged from the bleak winter of 1979 promising salvation and delivering coercion. Khomeinism turned political Islam into state power and terrorism, proxy warfare and revolutionary expansion into instruments of foreign policy. For nearly half a century, Tehran built armed transnational terrorist networks abroad while suffocating political life at home.IRAN’S UNSEEN SUPREME LEADER BECOMES WEAPON IN ESCALATING POWER STRUGGLE, EXPERTS SAYNow, this outlaw…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chad Gilbert, the founding member and lead guitarist for the punk rock band New Found Glory, has died. He was 45.The band and the late musician’s wife Lisa Cimorelli announced the news of Gilbert’s death in a joint Instagram post Saturday. The post did not cite a cause of death, but Gilbert had battled adrenal cancer since 2021, and in February, underwent brain surgery after doctors found tumors.”On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed away peacefully in his sleep,” they wrote. “He left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by his side, just as he wished.” DUNCAN SHEIK, ‘BARELY BREATHING’ SINGER, DEAD AT 56″We are devastated and shocked by how quickly he left us, yet so grateful for how peacefully and smoothly he went,” they continued. “The amount of visitors that crowded the hospital lobby at a moment’s notice is a testament to how beloved and cherished Chad was, and always will be. He was a legendary musician, but his favorite accomplishment was being a husband and father. His biggest dreams came true. He is survived by his…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Deputies in California are searching for a man believed to be armed and dangerous after allegedly murdering a woman and shooting at others, according to authorities.Derek Spencer, 44, is wanted for several felonies, including pointing a firearm at people in Placer County on Sunday, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities said Spencer was initially wanted after allegedly pointing a firearm at people earlier Sunday.During the search for Spencer earlier on Sunday, deputies found him in the Iowa Hill area. Spencer rammed a patrol vehicle before fleeing the area, triggering the manhunt.DRAMATIC VIDEO SHOWS SWAT VEHICLE RAMMING TRACTOR DURING TENSE OREGON STANDOFF Spencer also fired shots at law enforcement officers and helicopters assisting law enforcement. No law enforcement officers were injured during the search for Spencer.Everyone in the Iowa Hill area is urged to lock their doors and remain inside.In an update on Sunday night, the sheriff’s office said the search remained ongoing, noting the search is very challenging due to the area being very large, with dense forest and steep, rugged terrain.SUSPECT IN DEATHS OF 5 FOUND DEAD AFTER COPS UNCOVER GRIM SCENE AT RURAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE PORTLAND But during…