I wish HAL and others in our industry can retool to assemble and manufacture medical supplies as other companies are doing under the Defense Production Act, we certainly have a lot of talent to contribute.
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Former subsidary KBR could build things fast. They could have built field hospitals like China did.
It's funny a few had different opinions but during the great depression Earl P actually had manufacturing making fire plugs for the government and others would go downtown on main street and sweep and pu trash. Yes, all of that actually happened but Big Red was a different company ran by a real man back then. Just history
Good news. Manufacturing currently retool molds to create latex body doubles for quarantined couples.... and NB employees to keep mind occupied at home every other week
Having worked in both industries I can tell you that while retooling to make medical supplies is possible, it would take several months before you could make a meaningful impact. The reason is that the vast majority of medical devices are single use plastic and low cost (think margin). Nearly all of these parts are made via injection molding on 100+ cavity molds cranking out millions of parts per day. One of these molds alone takes months to build and at a cost of up to $1M USD.
I don't think the government has forgotten about Macondo, maybe HAL can make toilet paper without screwing that up...