The White House is broadcasting President Donald Trump’s appearance at the U.S. Army War College as defense, technology and financial leaders discuss rebuilding America’s industrial and military capacity.
LIVE — The Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit is now underway.
President Donald J. Trump is participating in a high-level roundtable with senior members of his administration and leaders of America’s largest defense, aerospace, energy, construction and investment companies.
The official White House broadcast displayed the following roundtable participants:
- President Donald J. Trump
- Senator Dave McCormick
- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
- Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll
- Dina Powell McCormick
- Danny Deep — President, General Dynamics
- Mike Coulter — CEO, Hanwha Defense USA
- Jon Gray — President, Blackstone
- Sean McGarvey — President, North America’s Building Trades Unions
- Kelly Ortberg — President and CEO, The Boeing Company
- Jim Taiclet — President and CEO, Lockheed Martin
- Kathy Warden — Chair and CEO, Northrop Grumman
- Antonio Gracias — Founder and CEO, Valor Equity Partners, and Director, SpaceX
- Toby Rice — CEO, EQT Corporation
- Thomas Tull — Co-Chairman, TWG Group
The composition of the roundtable shows that the summit is focused not only on military policy, but on the entire industrial structure behind American national defense: aircraft, missiles, shipbuilding, energy production, construction, private investment and advanced technology.