General Dynamics Corporation
Slogan	"Strength On Your Side"
Type	Public (NYSE: GD)
Founded	Falls Church, Virginia (February 21, 1952)
Headquarters	Falls Church, Virginia
Key people	Nicholas D. Chabraja, Chairman and CEO
Industry	Defense
Products	Conglomerate
Revenue	$19.35 billion USD (2004) [1]
Employees	70,200 (2004)
Website	www.gd.com

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2005 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world^[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. The company has three main business segments, Marine, Combat Systems, and Information Systems and Technology. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... Falls Church is an independent city located in Virginia. ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Falls Church is an independent city located in Virginia. ... Nicholas D. Chabraja is the CEO of General Dynamics Corp. ... In military science, defense (or defence) is the art of preventing an enemy from conquering territory. ... A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , also nicknamed the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world in dollar volume and second largest by number of companies listed. ... A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ... Divestment (divestiture) is a term in finance and economics. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A defense contractor (sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a government. ... For other uses, please see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

Marine Systems

• American Overseas Marine Corporation
• Bath Iron Works
• Electric Boat
• National Steel and Shipbuilding Company

Bath Iron Works from NAS Brunswick photo gallery Bath Iron Works (BIW) is located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine. ... Electric Boat is sometimes used as a colloquial abbreviation for the US Electric Boat Corporation. ... National Steel and Shipbuilding Company or simply NASSCO is a shipyard in San Diego, California, and a division of General Dynamics. ...

Combat Systems

• General Dynamics Land Systems
  • M1 Series Abrams Main Battle Tank
  • M1A2 Series Abrams Main Battle Tank
  • Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
  • Heavy Assault Bridge program
  • Crusader Self-Propelled Howitzer
• General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products
• General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems
• General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems
  • Steyr-Daimler-Puch

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Information Systems & Technology

• General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
• General Dynamics C4 Systems
• General Dynamics Information Technology
• General Dynamics United Kingdom
• General Dynamics Wireless Systems

Aerospace

• Gulfstream Aerospace

Gulfstream G200 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, and has been a unit of General Dynamics since 2001. ...

History

Legacy and Acquisitions

• 1899 - Electric Boat was established and became General Dynamics in 1952
• 1946 - Canadair purchased from the Canadian government
• 1953 - Convair merged with General Dynamics^[2]
• 1962-1963 - Convair-produced Mercury-Atlas rockets launches four manned Mercury missions into low Earth orbit, including John Glenn.
• 1971-1985 David S. Lewis, Jr., was chairman and chief executive officer. During his tenure, General Dynamics’ revenues and earnings quadrupled.
• 1982 - Formed General Dynamics Combat Systems after the acquisition of Chrysler's combat systems
• 1995 - Acquired Bath Iron Works from Prudential Insurance, established in 1890
• 1996 - Acquired Teledyne Vehicle Systems.
• 1997 - Acquired Lockheed Martin Defense Systems and Lockheed Martin Armament Systems.
• 1997 - Acquired Advanced Technology Systems, formerly an operating unit of Lucent Technologies.
• 1997 - Acquired Computing Devices International, formerly a division of Ceridian Corporation.
• 1998 - Acquired National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, established in 1905
• 1999 - Acquired Gulfstream Aerospace from Forstmann Little, the company was founded in 1958
• 1999 - Acquired GTE Government Systems, Communication Systems, Electronic Systems and Worldwide Telecommunication Systems Divisions.
• 2001 - Acquired Galaxy Aerospace Company from Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI)
• 2001 - GD Decision Systems formed (and later merged with General Dynamics C4 Systems) after acquisition of Motorola's Integrated Information Systems Group
• 2002 - Acquired Advanced Technical Products
• 2003 - Acquired GM Defense from General Motors
• 2003 - Acquired Steyr Daimler Puch Spezialfahrzeug (SSF) from an Austrian investor group, which bought the company in 1998 from the Steyr-Daimler-Puch-conglomerate. SSF is now part of "General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems" which includes also the Spanish Santa Bárbara Sistemas and the Swiss MOWAG, and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
• 2003 - Acquired Veridian and Digital Systems Resources.
• 2004 - Acquired Spectrum Astro.
• 2005 - Acquired FC Business Systems.
• 2006 - Acquired Anteon International.

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Divestitures

• Coal mining
• Building materials
• Limestone
• Concrete
• 1976 - Canadair sold back to the Canadian government
• 1981 - Following expropriation legislation passed by the government of the Province of Quebec, General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary sold its 54.6% controlling interest in Asbestos Corporation Limited to the Quebec government-owned creation, Société nationale de l'amiante (SNA).
• 1991 - Data Systems Division outsourced to Computer Sciences Corp.
• 1992 - Tactical Missiles Division to Hughes Electronics.
• 1992 - Cessna to Textron
• 1993 - Fixed wing military aircraft to Martin Marietta
• 1993 - Space Systems Division to Martin Marietta
• 1994 - Convair's aerostructures unit to McDonnell Douglas, (Convair closed in 1996).

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Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors of General Dynamics are: Nicholas Chabraja, James Crown, Lester Crown, William Fricks, Charles Goodman, Jay L. Johnson, George Joulwan, Paul Kaminski, John Keane, Lester Lyles, Carl Mundy, and Robert Walmsley. In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of the affairs of the company. ... Nicholas D. Chabraja is the CEO of General Dynamics Corp. ... James S. Crown is a businessman. ... Lester Crown (1926-). Son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. ... Admiral Jay L. Johnson Born in Great Falls, Mont. ... George Joulwan (born 19XX) was a U.S. general. ... Carl Epting Mundy Jr. ...

Financials

General Dynamics has about $12 billion in sales, primarily military, but also civilian with its Gulfstream Aerospace unit and conventional ship-building and repair with its National Steel and Shipbuilding subsidiary.

In 2004 General Dynamics bid for the UK company Alvis Vickers, the leading British manufacturer of armoured vehicles. In March the board of Alvis Vickers voted in favour of the £309m takeover. However at the last minute BAE Systems offered £355m for the company in what was seen as a move to keep General Dynamics out of its "back yard". This deal was finalised in June 2004. The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... BAE Systems plc is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor [2] and a commercial aerospace manufacturer. ...

General Dynamics has tried to acquire Newport News Shipbuilding but been blocked by regulators and competitors, as this would make General Dynamics the sole manufacturer of nuclear-powered ships in the United States. The newly constructed USS Birmingham is launched from the Newport News yards in 1942 Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN), formerly called Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company (NNS&DD or simply NNS), is the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States and the only one that can build Nimitz...

Controlled subsidiaries of the corporation are donors to the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute ^[2]. The Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute is a Calgary, Alberta-based Canadian lobbying organization. ...

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References

1. ^ 2005 Defense News Top 100
2. ^ General Dynamics Corporation. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Retrieved on 2006-03-31.

• Patents owned by General Dynamics Corporation. US Patent & Trademark Office. URL accessed on 5 December 2005.

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External links

• General Dynamics Corporation website
• Yahoo! - General Dynamics Corporation Company Profile