President Donald Trump is scheduled to headline a defense summit hosted by U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick next month in Central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the Army War College in Carlisle will bring together leaders in the defense, technology, finance and government sectors on July 14-15.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast July, the president came to Pennsylvania and together we announced more than $90 billion in investments to strengthen America\u2019s energy dominance and AI leadership,\u201d McCormick said in a statement, referring to last year\u2019s Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis July, I look forward to welcoming President Trump back to build on this momentum with a focus on strengthening and advancing our national defense,\u201d added McCormick, a Republican from Pittsburgh\u2019s Squirrel Hill.<\/p>\n
McCormick said the first day of the summit will highlight Pennsylvania\u2019s defense industrial base and efforts to expand defense production and innovation. Trump will speak on the second day, focusing on the state\u2019s role in strengthening and supporting America\u2019s national defense, the senator said.<\/p>\n
McCormick said other prominent guests will include JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone President Jon Gray, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet, General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, SpaceX director Antonio Gracias and Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is scheduled to headline a defense summit hosted by U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick next month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-227101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}