Trump Says US Defense Contractors to Quadruple Munitions Production ‘As Rapidly as Possible’

After meeting with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, among others, the president said the Pentagon has ‘virtually unlimited supply’ of weapons.

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) launching station preparing to load onto a 4th Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster III at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Feb. 23, 2019. Staff Sgt. Cory D. Payne/U.S. Air Force via AP

President Donald Trump met with executives of the nation’s largest defense contractors on Friday in the White House and said they agreed to quadruple production of “exquisite weaponry … as rapidly as possible.”

The president said in a Truth Social post that he and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sat down with the CEOs of BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX Corp., Boeing, Honeywell, and L3Harris Technologies to appraise how swiftly munitions stockpiles can be expanded under an accelerated program implemented last fall.