S President Donald Department of Defence, Trump ready been holding discussions emer- Trump has invoked stated that conditions existed with leading defence companies U gency powers under the that could pose a direct threat on ways to expand production Defence Production Act to speed to national security and military capacity and overcome supply up the manufacture of weapons chal- preparedness if production chain constraints. Officials have and military equipment, amid lenges were not addressed. The warned that shortages of key concerns that the recent conflict order enables the government to co…