General Motors and Lockheed Martin have announced a new collaboration aimed at accelerating weapons manufacturing using the carmaker’s technologies.
The tie-up, which was requested by the US defence department, would help Lockheed Martin increase its production rate of critical munitions as it comes under pressure from the Pentagon to make more missiles and air-defence interceptors faster.
The Trump administration has demanded that defence companies such as Lockheed Martin triple or quadruple the production of critical munitions, which take about 24 to 36 months to produce, over the next three to seven years.
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