(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.

One afternoon in January, President Trump sent the stocks of the military-industrial complex stumbling when he complained that defense contractors were paying dividends too generously, buying back their own stock too aggressively, and compensating executives too lavishly.