Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg gave defense industry leaders no more than 21 days to submit proposals for faster delivery schedules and expanded production capacity, according to the memo, first reported Wednesday. "We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now." The production push comes as Iran hardened its own posture on Hormuz. "The strait is now actually a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway." Despite the hardened rhetoric, a narrower agreement between Iran and Oman over managing shipping traffic through the strait continues to move forward on a separate track.