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The following is a transcript of an interview with Jim Taiclet, the president and CEO of Lockheed Martin,that aired Sunday, May 8, 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: We now turn to Jim Taiclet, the CEO of defense giant Lockheed Martin, which makes some of the weapons the US is sending to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Good morning to you, sir.JIM TAICLET: Good morning, Margaret. Happy Mother s Day to you. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you very much for saying that. We hear ti stanley flask me and again one of the most powerful tools the Ukrainians have are these anti-tank, Russian tank busting missiles known as jav stanley shop elins. That s what your company jointly produces with Raytheon. How quickly can you scale up production to get more to them and to stanley canada backfill what the US has given up TAICLET: Sure, Margaret. Well, the president visited us in Troy, Alabama, to thank the workforce earlier this week, and we really appreciate what he s done for us. We are therefore on our side, accelerating our investment in that factory and in our workforce there. So we re already investing ahead of time to buy tooling, to expand the plant and also support our suppliers to get ready to ramp up production. So right now, our capacity is 2,100 Javelin missiles per year. We re endeavoring to take that up to 4,000 per year, and that will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to-to also crank up. As we do so Solw Dean: Cheney May Have To Resign
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at Tommy s Ham House, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, in Greenville , S.C. AP Photo/ Richard Shiro Updated Dec. 19, 10 a.m. ETBecky Bu termo stanley rkett, a former stanley cup aide to Newt Gingrich, announced on Tuesday the creation of a new super PAC designed to raise money for the man now considered by some to be the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The PAC, called Winning our Future, will be the second super PAC created for purposes of boosting Gingrich s presidential campaign. Its name references the organization American Solutions for Winning the Future - a Washington-based nonprofit Gingrich founded in the late 1990s, for which Burkett previously did fundraising work. Super PACs can spend unlimited funds to support a candidate as long as they do not directly coordinate with the candidate s campaign. The first pro-Gingrich super PAC, Solutions 2012, began operating last month. In a statement announcing the PAC s formation, Burkett described Winning our Future as a vehicle stanley quencher aimed at capitalizing on Gingrich s recent momentum. We are motivated by the fact that Americans must make the right choice next November at the ballot box or this great nation will not be recognizable. What is so exciting is that more and more Americans are beginning to real
The following is a transcript of an interview with Jim Taiclet, the president and CEO of Lockheed Martin,that aired Sunday, May 8, 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: We now turn to Jim Taiclet, the CEO of defense giant Lockheed Martin, which makes some of the weapons the US is sending to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Good morning to you, sir.JIM TAICLET: Good morning, Margaret. Happy Mother s Day to you. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you very much for saying that. We hear ti stanley flask me and again one of the most powerful tools the Ukrainians have are these anti-tank, Russian tank busting missiles known as jav stanley shop elins. That s what your company jointly produces with Raytheon. How quickly can you scale up production to get more to them and to stanley canada backfill what the US has given up TAICLET: Sure, Margaret. Well, the president visited us in Troy, Alabama, to thank the workforce earlier this week, and we really appreciate what he s done for us. We are therefore on our side, accelerating our investment in that factory and in our workforce there. So we re already investing ahead of time to buy tooling, to expand the plant and also support our suppliers to get ready to ramp up production. So right now, our capacity is 2,100 Javelin missiles per year. We re endeavoring to take that up to 4,000 per year, and that will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to-to also crank up. As we do so Solw Dean: Cheney May Have To Resign
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at Tommy s Ham House, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, in Greenville , S.C. AP Photo/ Richard Shiro Updated Dec. 19, 10 a.m. ETBecky Bu termo stanley rkett, a former stanley cup aide to Newt Gingrich, announced on Tuesday the creation of a new super PAC designed to raise money for the man now considered by some to be the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The PAC, called Winning our Future, will be the second super PAC created for purposes of boosting Gingrich s presidential campaign. Its name references the organization American Solutions for Winning the Future - a Washington-based nonprofit Gingrich founded in the late 1990s, for which Burkett previously did fundraising work. Super PACs can spend unlimited funds to support a candidate as long as they do not directly coordinate with the candidate s campaign. The first pro-Gingrich super PAC, Solutions 2012, began operating last month. In a statement announcing the PAC s formation, Burkett described Winning our Future as a vehicle stanley quencher aimed at capitalizing on Gingrich s recent momentum. We are motivated by the fact that Americans must make the right choice next November at the ballot box or this great nation will not be recognizable. What is so exciting is that more and more Americans are beginning to real