According to the White House, President Donald Trump secured a defense investment from its allies during NATO’s 2026 Ankara Summit.
In a statement, the White House said the agreements with the U.S. allies amounted to $3 billion in major deals and joint ventures to expand the “Arsenal of Freedom” – the national security campaign and defense initiative championed by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Those deals include an agreement for Lockheed Martin to establish a Patriot Advanced Capability-3(PAC-3) Missile Sustainment Facility in Europe; letters of interest from Northrop Grumman with 10 nations to purchase MQ-4C Tritons; an agreement between Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall to partner on Army Tactical Missile System production in Europe; and an agreement from Germany and the Netherlands to buy Raytheon’s Stinger missile with European production as a condition of bulk procurement, which is set to double by 2030.
The White House said Trump’s leadership has created a generational shift in NATO and ramped up America’s allies’ stake in industrial expansion while creating jobs for thousands of American workers. The new approach, the White House said, moves the Alliance toward greater burden sharing and self-reliance, which creates a more balanced Alliance and frees up critical American resources for homeland defense and secures our national interests beyond Europe.
In 2025, the White House said, European defense spending supported nearly 200,000 American jobs, including 112,000 positions from U.S. defense contractor sales and 83,000 jobs from European defense firms operating in the U.S. Trump is moving NATO from a model of dependency to one of true partnership, the White House said, securing a commitment from NATO allies to invest 5 percent of the GDP annually in defense by 2035. Allied investment jumped more than 20 percent last year, with allies spending $120 billion more in 2025. NATO allies procured more than $54 billion in defense equipment from the United States in 2025 as well.