Kelly Ortberg
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And it's important all the way up to POTUS.
We've met with them on...
CEOs have all met with POTUS on the need to ramp up our capability in the weapons market.
Our weapons business is, the demand is through the roof.
So that's another area where we're going to quickly be talking about how many can we build, not how many can we get under order.
So, you know, we're working on expanding our production there.
I was just at the Pentagon meeting with the Department of War yesterday on things like ramping up production.
The China trip was super successful.
My primary objective was to reopen that market to our narrowbody airplanes.
As you know, we hadn't had an order in nearly a decade, and we accomplished that, which is a major, major accomplishment.
And I think people focus a little bit too much on the initial quantity.
This is opening the market.
They need well over 500 aircraft a year to support their GDP growth.
Our weapons business is, the demand is through the roof.
So that's another area where we're going to quickly be talking about how many can we build, not how many can we get under order.
So, you know, we're working on expanding our production there.
I was just at the Pentagon meeting with the Department of War yesterday on things like ramping up production.
The China trip was super successful.
My primary objective was to reopen that market to our narrowbody airplanes.
As you know, we hadn't had an order in nearly a decade, and we accomplished that, which is a major, major accomplishment.