"Leading defense tech firms were summoned," the report stated, "including AI-aircraft software company Shield AI, the autonomous weapons firm Anduril, cruise missile start-up CoAspire and low-cost munitions maker Castelion." Trump's administration has both tried to deny a shortage and blame former President Biden for it — sometimes in the same interview. According to the Washington Post, this crisis represents "a major test for the Trump administration, which has turbocharged its relationship with Silicon Valley and made collaboration with start-ups a core part of its weapons acquisition process." Jerry McGinn, the director of the Center for the Industrial Base at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Post he's skeptical Trump and the tech bros can pull off their plans. “It’s one thing to build … it’s another thing to then mass produce,” said McGinn.