Governor Jodi Rell vowed Friday to pursue legal remedies. She said in a written statement that, as commander in chief of the state’s National Guard, she had not approved movement of the unit. Rell maintained, “I have not done that and I will not do that—period.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth foot-stomped the Pentagon's push for acquisition speed and contractor accountability in a Jan. 12 speech at Lockheed Martin’s production hub in Fort Worth, Texas—the heart of the department’s biggest acquisition program, the F-35.

