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Pete Hegseth: “We will award companies bigger, longer contracts for proven…”

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Published November 12, 2025 | Video Starts at 13:37

Now is the time. Here are the five overarching transformative pillars for our procurement process. First, we have to stabilize demand signals. We will award companies bigger, longer contracts for proven systems. so those companies can be confident in investing more to grow the industrial base that supplies our weapons systems more and faster. And that's good for big guys, small guys and everything in between. (13:37–13:42)

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“For the past five months, as I hope you've heard, there have been zero crossings across our southern border.”
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“When President Trump came into office, he said, no, we're going to reestablish freedom of navigation. And so we dropped bombs on the Houthis…”
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“NATO members committing to 5%, 3.5% of hard military spending and 1.5 in infrastructure is historic.”
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“We owe our republic a military that can win any war we fight.”
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“Enemies are gathering and threats are growing.”
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“Common sense means putting war fighting, lethality, as the Senator mentioned, training, discipline, accountability, readiness at the…”
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“No more social justice, no more political correctness, no more toxic ideological garbage that infected the department.”
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“No more identity months, no more DEI offices, no more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship.”
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“I've directed every service to ensure that every requirement and every combat MOS returns to the highest male standard.”
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“Every requirement and every combat MOS returns to the highest male standard.”
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“You need to beat height and weight standards and pass a PT test twice a year.”
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“A quarter of the platoon is sporting beards because they're now suddenly Nordic pagans.”
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“We're overhauling the Inspector General, the EO and MEO processes, so they cannot be weaponized.”
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“We're reviewing and flipping the entire IG process.”
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“Officers simply upholding high standards that promote the warrior culture are not toxic.”
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“We have the strongest, most capable, most lethal military in the world, full stop.”
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“We're going to need more places like Crane and we're going to need them quickly to achieve the historic rebuilding that President Trump has…”
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“We have to liberate our bureaucracy and fundamentally change the way we do acquisitions.”
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“We're continuing in that lineage, undertaking a department wide transformation of requirements, acquisitions and foreign military sales.”
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“Transform the entire acquisition system to operate at a wartime or warp speed footing.”
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“We will prioritize the purchase of industry driven solutions, commercial solutions that meet our need to be faster.”
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“We're only going to do business with industry partners that share our priority on speed and volume above all else.”
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“We're undertaking regulatory reform removing excessive and burdensome far and DFARS rules, reporting requirements, accounting standards…”
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“Some of the things that used to take us three to eight years through requirements and acquisitions now should take under a year.”
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“Under the Biden administration, our adversaries expanded in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, in the Middle east, in what happened on October 7th…”
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“We revived the 1918 Mexican Border Medal to pin on their chest when they're done with a six month tour down there securing the border.”
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“We're also taking the fight on the deterrence front to cartels.”
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“Operation Midnight hammer... going into Iranian airspace... drop 14 precision 30,000 pound bombs... and then turn around and leave Iranian…”
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“Iran, you have 60 days. And then on the 60 day mark, bombs dropped on their facilities, destroying Fordeau, esfahan and natanz.”
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“Houthi started shooting at our ships. And, I don't know, we shot a few missiles into some huts, but didn't do anything about it.”
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“We're supporting allies and partners out there as force multipliers to strengthen their own capabilities.”
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“We're freeing [the Panama Canal] from malign Chinese influence, ensuring that American ships can sail freely.”
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“We're restoring the warrior ethos, we're rebuilding our military, we're reestablishing deterrence.”
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“We're going to take risks. We're going to optimize for speed. We're going to compete and we're going to scale.”
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