Iconic American Company Steps Up To Help Revive America’s Defense Sector

Historic car manufacturer General Motors will partner with defense giant Lockheed Martin to manufacture parts for Patriot missiles critically needed by the Pentagon. 

Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that GM had delivered its first batch of components for Patriot missiles. The two companies signed the deal on August 6 after the Pentagon tasked Lockheed with ramping up missile production amid the ongoing war with Iran. 

“We’re proud to support production of this country’s critical defense capabilities,” said GM Defense President Stephen duMont. “We look forward to putting these strengths to work in support of our nation’s security and the people who protect it.”

Lockheed Martin said in a news release that GM delivered the parts in just three weeks, for components that traditionally take months or years to produce. The defense contractor added that it planned on investing over $8 billion to ramp up munition production. 

The partnership comes as the Department of War faces strategic munitions shortfalls while the war with Iran continues months past initial estimates. 

A recent inspector general report said that the Pentagon was working to mitigate the shortage by streamlining “procurement processes and production lead times, and to stockpile critical materials, components, and selected munitions to respond rapidly to a contingency.”

President Donald Trump initially shot down reports that missile supplies were dwindling during the early days of the war. 

“We have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!),” Trump posted on March 2. “At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be. Much additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries.”

Trump’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal reported that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine flagged concerns about interceptor supplies before the attack was launched. Caine questioned whether the United States would have enough munitions to protect its outposts. 

The Pentagon’s munition supplies were short even before Trump launched the Iran war in February, following American support for Ukraine during its ongoing war with Russia.

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