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General Dynamics Awarded $26 Million Contract for Advanced Life Support Technologies and Research

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for Advanced Life Support Technologies and Research (ALSTAR). The total potential value of the contract if all options are exercised is $26 million. Through ALSTAR, General Dynamics will provide research, support and evaluation of new life support technologies, spatial disorientation, warfighter fatigue, acceleration and altitude protection; and biodynamics research, modeling and simulation.

The first delivery order under the new contract is valued at $5.7 million for one year of support to the Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Biosciences and Protection Division. The required research will develop new and innovative technologies to improve aircrew protective equipment, reduce fatalities and injuries, and enhance procedures and training methodologies. The contract will build the foundation for the Human Systems Center of Excellence (COE) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Work will be performed at Brooks City-Base, Texas and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The contract was awarded in the name of Veridian Engineering, which was acquired by General Dynamics on August 11, 2003.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, headquartered in Arlington, Va., is a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, and computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR). Customers include those in the defense, intelligence, homeland security and homeland defense communities.

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 67,600 people worldwide and had 2003 revenues of $16.6 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 - Monday, April 19, 2004
Press Contact: (703) 271-7316