Primed for production

Congress didn’t give the White House all the munitions funding it asked for, but defense executives say it’s enough—along with the administration’s goading and global instability—to persuade them to pour more of their own funds into boosting production. In a last-minute request, the Trump administration asked lawmakers to bump munitions spending spread out over multiple years by more than $28.8 billion. Congress, which last summer allocated an extra $25 billion