(The Center Square) – The Department of War signed agreements Monday with Northrop Grumman to help triple production of PAC-3 interceptors and quadruple output of THAAD components, the latest move in the administration's push to expand the nation's missile-defense arsenal.

The department cast the deals as part of its Acquisition Transformation Strategy, a push to hand suppliers longer-term demand so they will fund the tooling, facilities and workforce needed to scale up interceptor production.

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