General Dynamics Unit Awarded $11 Million Contract
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), yesterday was awarded an $11 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for common hardware and software items for the Project Manager Army Tactical Command and Control Systems computers and associated peripherals for battlefield commanders. Work will be performed in Taunton, Mass. The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity.
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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General Dynamics Corporation (ticker: GD, exchange: NYSE)
News Release - Thursday, May 30, 2002
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