President Trump is expected on Wednesday to urge senior defense officials and
industry executives to accelerate weapons production and expand manufacturing
capacity, citing strains on U.S. stockpiles from the Ukraine and Middle East
conflicts and industrial bottlenecks. He will attend the closing roundtable of a
two-day Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in
Pennsylvania hosted by Republican Senator McCormick, meeting senior military
leaders, defense contractors, investors and tech executives. Trump is expected
to announce several Pennsylvania-focused defense investment plans. The move
signals a White House push to use Pentagon policy and procurement to spur
factory investment, advanced manufacturing and domestic supply-chain
development; he previously pressed munitions makers in June to speed production.
