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

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. “Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and plants and production of many of these weapons are already under way,” Trump said....