Key Facts Pentagon gives defense contractors 21 days to develop plans for dramatically faster weapons production and delivery. The Iran war has heavily depleted key U.S. missile inventories, including long-range precision weapons and Patriot and THAAD interceptors. Feinberg warned that “years-long development cycles are not acceptable” and called on manufacturers to dramatically accelerate production. The push comes as the five-month conflict with Iran has placed extraordinary demands on U.S. precision-strike and missile-defense inventories. Still, the Pentagon’s demand for dramatically faster production underscores a longstanding concern within Washington: modern precision weapons can be fired far faster than America’s defense-industrial base can replace them.