Trump Wants to Scale Up Munitions Production

“Four months ago, President Donald Trump emerged from a White House meeting with America’s largest weapons makers with a big promise: The companies had agreed to quadruple production of some of America’s most important missiles, and the ramp-up had already begun,” NOTUS reports.

“Last week at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, he floated an ambitious timeline: Delivery schedules that now stretch for a year or two could shrink to as little as one week in the next 12 to 18 months. Whether that’s attainable is unclear, but the problem Trump described was real.”