Defense firms met with the Admin to discuss ramping up production. This article outlines the difficulties the firms will face in doing that quickly. As a Seattle paper, it focuses on Boeing and includes a nice overview of what Boeing makes for DOD
The sub is obviously interested in the war and may be interested in discussing what the war means for US materiel stock.
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> Shaw said Boeing doesn’t appear to be worried about keeping up with demand. He pointed to Tuesday reporting that Boeing had a new $298 million contract with Israel to deliver as many as 5,000 air-launched smart bombs, known as the Small Diameter Bomb.
>To him, that agreement means Boeing is prepared to handle the demands from the Pentagon with one caveat: “**unless this war expands, or goes on a lot longer than we anticipate**,” Shaw said. [Emp added]
Oh great
Oh FYI you can scroll through the aircraft graphic in the article to see more diagrams. It’s not obvious. The print edition had a decent layout of them.
https://preview.redd.it/tfey44mq5uog1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0133d4798e5be0d8981f09a1db77b8366ec424
This might be the biggest hurdle.
From a pure economics perspective, the DoD needs to be realistic about building production lines and training workers, and you have to make it in the contractors interest to do so. You also have to cut as much testing as possible while still ensuring a product works, because the production capacity is slowed by testing as well.
You can’t have boutique testing requirements and full scale war production capacity at the same time, not without a massive workforce which they aren’t willing to invest in.