 An important secondary goal of the project was simply to ensure that France would in the future have a sufficient number of weapons engineers; if these could not be employed now, they would be forced to seek other occupations and much expertise would be lost.Consequently, on 25 November it was decided to produce five hundred heavy tanks, to be designed by the "Direction des Études et Fabrications d'Armement" (DEFA) in which engineers from the former APX (the army "Atelier de Puteaux") and AMX (the "Atelier de Construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux" state factory) design teams were concentrated, and built by the "Atelier de Construction de Rueil" (ARL), the army workshop.Already in October it had been decided to name the type "ARL 44".