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General Dynamics Units Awarded $18 Million in Defense Contracts

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced today that two of its units – General Dynamics Robotic Systems and General Dynamics C4 Systems – have been awarded Defense Department contracts worth more than $18 million.

On March 25, General Dynamics Robotic Systems (Westminster, Md.) was awarded a $6.1 million modification to an existing contract for the production of 33 M56 smoke generator systems and five gas turbine engines. Work will be performed in Westminster (M56 Systems) and Phoenix, Ariz. (M56 systems and gas turbine engines), and is to be completed by Jan. 2003. The U.S. Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity.

On March 26, General Dynamics C4 Systems of Taunton, Mass., was awarded a $12 million modification to an existing contract for common hardware and software items for Project Manager, Army Tactical Command and Control Systems computers and associated peripherals for battlefield commanders. Work will be completed in Taunton by April 2005. The U.S. Army Communications - Electronics Command Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics Robotic Systems is an ISO 9001, value-added contract manufacturer with a strong advanced engineering capability. The company’s specialty is the design and manufacturing of complex electronic and electro-mechanical systems and subassemblies, including robotic and autonomous systems for the U.S. Department of Defense. Customers include the DoD, the U.S. Postal Service, major automobile manufacturers and others.

General Dynamics C4 Systems provides secure command, control, computing, communication and information solutions that integrate custom-developed and commercial off-the-shelf products for the military and commercial markets. It designs, integrates and supports strategic and tactical battlefield communication systems, worldwide. It has pioneered automated approaches to mission planning; battlespace management; targeting/fire support; mapping, charting and geodesy; and simulation, for its military and commercial customers. It also provides environmentally hardened and special packaging of computer equipment and peripherals for both customer segments.

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 52,000 people worldwide and had 2001 revenues of $12 billion. The company has leading market positions in land and amphibious combat systems, mission-critical information systems and technologies, shipbuilding and marine systems, and business aviation.

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Any "forward-looking statements" contained in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

General Dynamics Corporation (ticker: GD, exchange: NYSE)
News Release - Wednesday, March 27, 2002
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