a.i. officials meanwhile discovered a number of manufacturing and production issues in the "hollywood" (armalite) version of the ar-10, all of which had to be resolved before large-scale production could commence. in addition to designing and building tooling for the rifle, the design had to be converted to metric dimensions and subcontractors had to be found to supply materials or manufacture component parts. armalite also continued to send a.i. product improvement requests.