If US or even international defense contractors want to purchase items manufactured in SE Michigan and thereby maybe employ a few people and help stabilize and diversify our economy I personally welcome it. It would be to our advantage for our automotive supplier industry to have a larger customer base than just the Big3.

The Time article was informative I thought, how some Detroit area manufacturers are finding alternative customers for their products. In the long run defense materials, windmills, batteries, etc. may help the SE Mich economy re-structure. We have the workforce, the facilities, the rail, the engineering and such to hopefully attract some non-automotive manufacturing. There are not too many cities with idle large industrial facilities available. Most of them have already been domolished or rehabbed into non-industrial use.