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Defense Giant Teams Up With Automaker to Enhance Supply Chain
Lockheed Martin and General Motors have announced a partnership aimed at harnessing GM’s manufacturing prowess to enable Lockheed to boost weapons production. The agreement focuses on strengthening defense supply chains, advancing manufacturing, and evaluating opportunities to expand production capacity. Executives revealed that the partnership may involve GM producing commonly used parts to help Lockheed scale munitions production, which could help the company meet the Pentagon’s request to triple and quadruple production rates of certain missile systems. The partnership was announced at the Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit, as reported by Breaking Defense.