News for General Dynamics
Feb 25 · 4:08:00 PM · Source: Reuters
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, delivered USNS Matthew Perry (T-AKE 9) to the U.S. Navy. The ship is named in honor of Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858), the U.S. Navy officer who established American trade with Japan in the mid-19th century.
NASSCO began construction of USNS Matthew Perry in April 2008. The
689-foot-long supply ship will serve under the Navy's Military Sealift
Command. The ship is capable of delivering almost 10,000 tons of dry cargo
and petroleum products at one time to U.S. Navy and allied ships underway at
sea.
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by Michael Oliveto
Feb 12 · 9:46:00 PM · Source: PR NewsWire
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract for Constructive Training Systems support by the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). The total potential value of this single-award, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract is $387 million if all options are exercised. The initial award value is $56 million for the base year.
Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide technical, management and professional engineering support services for the procurement and fielding of Constructive Training Systems (CTS). Services to be performed consist of engineering, integration, exercise and experimentation support, gaming, materiel purchases, maintenance, supply support and post-fielding support to PEO STRI and the Project Manager for Constructive Simulations (PM ConSim). The work will be managed in the Orlando, Fla., area.
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by Michael Oliveto
Feb 10 · 4:33:00 PM
The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command recently awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, $253 million for contractor logistics support of the Stryker family of combat vehicles.
Logistics support, vehicle resets and upgrades are a continuing portion of General Dynamics’ combat systems-related business. Work will be performed by existing General Dynamics employees in Alaska, Hawaii, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and overseas in Afghanistan, Germany, Iraq and Kuwait. The period of performance is March 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011.
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by Michael Oliveto
Dec 31 · 3:57:00 PM · Source: MSN Money
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has been awarded a $6.1 million modification to a previously awarded defense contract.
The contract is for logistics for expeditionary fire support system transportable vehicles, a U.S. Department of Defense release said.
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by Michael Oliveto
Dec 31 · 3:56:00 PM · Source: Mass High Tech
General Dynamics' Armament and Technical Products division has brought in $33.6 million from the U.S. Army for armor tiles for personnel carriers, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Under the deal, General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products will supply the Army with 144 Bradley reactive armor tile sets for the Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Work on the contract will be performed in Stoughton, MA, Fall River, MA, Burlington, VT, Lyndonville, VT, and Simsbury, CT, as well as in Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey and Israel. The U.S. Department of Defense expects the work on the deal to be completed by November 30.
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by Michael Oliveto
Dec 8 · 3:06:00 PM · Source: PR NewswIre
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded an $18.6 million, five-year contract to support the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), Philadelphia, PA, under the Seaport-e contract vehicle.
Under this contract, General Dynamics will provide engineering and technical support of machinery control, machinery information and machinery automation systems.
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by Michael Oliveto
Nov 5 · 12:41:00 PM · Source: PR Newswire
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products has been awarded a $17 million contract to produce gun systems for the Phalanx Block 1B Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) and the Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System by Raytheon Missile Systems of Louisville, Ky.
The Phalanx Block 1B CIWS is the most recent upgrade of the Phalanx CIWS. Phalanx is a fully autonomous, radar-directed, rapid-fire 20mm Gatling-gun system that provides naval ships with the last line of defense against a variety of threats including anti-ship missiles, aircraft, high-speed watercraft and other air and surface threats.
· Related: Raytheon
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by Michael Oliveto
Nov 5 · 12:38:00 PM · Source: Reuters
General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics announced that it has been awarded a $7.6 million contract to develop the new KG-530 SONET OC-768C in-line encryptor in support of an NSA initiative to secure and distribute data, at a full 40 gigabits per second line rate, used for government and military missions.
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by Michael Oliveto
Nov 5 · 12:36:00 PM · Source: Defense Industry Daily
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products received a $13 million order from the US Army TACOM-ARDEC for production of MK19 MOD 3 40mm grenade machine guns.
Deliveries are expected to begin in June 2010 and will be completed by late 2011. The MK19 grenade machine gun is a self-powered, air-cooled, belt-fed, blowback operated, crew-served weapon.
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by Michael Oliveto
Oct 29 · 12:48:00 PM · Source: Reuters
General Dynamics Electric Boat, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, has been awarded by the US Navy a $25 million contract for management and support of nuclear-maintenance work for submarines homeported at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, CT.
The contract has a potential value of $78 million over three years if all options are exercised.
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by Michael Oliveto
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