白宫强调，此次会议是数周前就已安排的，并非针对战场的即时短缺而召开。官员们称此次会议是加强美国国防工业基础并加快美国制造武器生产的更广泛努力的一部分。
“美国军方拥有足够多的弹药、弹药和武器储备，无论‘史诗之怒’行动持续多久，都足以继续摧毁伊朗政权并完成该行动，”白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特在向福克斯新闻发表的声明中表示。
“尽管如此，特朗普总统一直高度专注于加强我们的军队，这就是为什么数周前就安排了与国防承包商的这次会面。总统将继续呼吁这些美国公司更快地生产美国制造的武器，这些武器是世界上最好的。”
出席会议的公司包括洛克希德·马丁公司、诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司、RTX公司、波音公司、霍尼韦尔公司和L3Harris技术公司。
此次会议召开之际，美军仍在参与“史诗之怒”行动，这是针对伊朗军事资产的行动，此前有美以协调打击。政府官员一直坚称，美国的战备状态仍然强劲，尽管导弹防御行动的速度已引起国会山的审查。
根据国防评估，在2025年为期12天的伊朗冲突中，美军发射了超过150枚“萨德”（THAAD）高空区域防御拦截弹——约占全球库存的四分之一——以保护以色列和美国资产免受伊朗导弹袭击。“爱国者”PAC-3 MSE导弹目前的年产量约为600至650枚，补充时间线以月或年计算，而非周。
美国和以色列官员此前估计，冲突开始时伊朗拥有大量弹道导弹 arsenal——约2000至3000枚各种类型的导弹。中央司令部负责人布拉德·库珀海军上将周四表示，自冲突开始以来，伊朗的导弹袭击减少了90%。
国防规划者将导弹防御库存描述为更广泛战略平衡行动的一部分。用于保护美国在中东的基地和合作伙伴的高端系统也供应给乌克兰，并部署在印太地区，这创造了一些分析师所说的“零和”库存竞争，各战区之间争夺库存。
最近参加机密简报会后的议员们对行动扩大后的可持续性提出了质疑。
亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利警告称，这场行动可能会变成一个“数学问题”，需要在来袭导弹数量和有限的拦截器供应及生产能力之间取得平衡。
包括参与该行动简报的共和党人在内的其他议员表示，官员们向国会保证美军状态依然强劲。
现任和前任国防官员区分了进攻性打击武器——通常可以从预置库存中快速调动——和防御性拦截器（如“爱国者”和“萨德”系统），后者需要更长的生产周期，无法大规模快速制造。
President Donald Trump is meeting Friday with top U.S. defense industry executives as his administration looks to accelerate weapons production while military operations against Iran continue.
The White House emphasized the session was scheduled weeks ago and was not convened in response to immediate battlefield shortages. Officials described the meeting as part of a broader effort to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and speed production of American-made weapons.
“The US military has more than enough munitions, ammo, and weapons stockpiles to continue demolishing the Iranian regime and finish Operation Epic Fury, no matter how long it lasts,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to Fox News.
“Nevertheless, President Trump has always been intensely focused on strengthening our military, which is why this meeting with defense contractors was scheduled weeks ago. The President will continue to call on these US companies to more speedily build American-made weapons, which are the absolute best in the world.”
Companies attending are Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX Corporation, Boeing, Honeywell and L3Harris Technologies.
The meeting comes as U.S. forces remain engaged in Operation Epic Fury, a campaign targeting Iranian military assets following coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes. Administration officials have maintained that U.S. readiness remains strong, even as the pace of missile defense operations has drawn scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
During the 2025 12-day Iran conflict, U.S. forces fired more than 150 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors — roughly a quarter of the global inventory — to shield Israel and U.S. assets from Iranian missile attacks, according to defense assessments. Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles are currently produced at a rate of roughly 600 to 650 annually, with replenishment timelines measured in months or years rather than weeks.
U.S. and Israeli officials previously estimated that Iran had a large ballistic missile arsenal — roughly 2,000 to 3,000 missiles of various types at the outset of the conflict. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday Iran’s missile attacks have decreased 90% since the start of the conflict.
Defense planners have described missile defense inventories as part of a broader strategic balancing act. The same high-end systems used to protect U.S. bases and partners in the Middle East are also supplied to Ukraine and positioned in the Indo-Pacific, creating what some analysts characterize as a “zero-sum” competition for inventory across theaters.
Lawmakers emerging from recent classified briefings have raised questions about sustainability if operations expand.
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., warned the campaign could become a “math problem,” balancing incoming missile volumes against finite interceptor supplies and production capacity.
Other members, including Republicans briefed on the operation, have said officials assured Congress U.S. forces remain in strong shape.
Current and former defense officials have drawn a distinction between offensive strike weapons — which can often be surged from prepositioned stocks — and defensive interceptors such as Patriot and THAAD systems, which require longer production timelines and cannot be rapidly manufactured at scale.
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