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Top State Department Official Urges Defense Industry to Ramp Up Production, As Department Releases FMS 2023 Plan

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Top State Department Official Urges Defense Industry to Ramp Up Production, As Department Releases FMS 2023 Plan
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Ronen Levi on May 17 before her May 18 address to the Aerospace Industries Association (U.S. State Department Photo)

A top U.S. State Department official on May 18 urged the domestic defense industry to ramp up production, as the department released its new Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 2023 Plan. "We need you to follow a similar playbook to what FDR laid out more than 80 years ago: to act with all deliberate speed; to expand production capacity and shrink production timelines," Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told the Aerospace Industries Association's board of governors in Washington D.C. in…

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