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General Dynamics Awarded $7 Million Contract to Update Trident Training Laboratories

ARLINGTON, Va. – The U. S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a $7 million contract to complete the conversion of weapons laboratories at the Navy’s Trident Training Facility, Bangor, Wash., to the Trident II (D5) Backfit configuration, and to deliver the Fire Control Mod 6 Advanced Development Laboratory. Work will be performed in Pittsfield, Mass., and is expected to be complete by January 2006. The award has a potential value of up to $17 million if all options are exercised.

This contract will complete an effort that began in late 1997 to convert the Trident Training Facility to a full D5 weapons training capability. The Trident (D5) Backfit weapon system enables submarines originally designed for the Trident I (C4) missiles to employ the newer Trident II (D5) missiles. The contract will also provide for initial design of a new Weapons Training System Advanced Development Laboratory and will upgrade the Training Simulation System capabilities to enable the U.S. Navy to train its crews on the operation and maintenance of the Trident II Fire Control Mod 6 tactical system. General Dynamics is developing the Fire Control Mod 6 tactical system under a companion contract.

The Trident training-system contract exemplifies the broad scope and depth of General Dynamics’ involvement with the Trident Strategic Weapons System. As the prime contractor and principal designer of one of the first open-architecture electronics systems to be deployed by the U.S. Navy, General Dynamics also holds contracts for designing, developing and supporting the Trident Tactical Fire Control System and for providing engineering services related to the Trident Inertial Guidance System.

In addition, General Dynamics is designing, developing and producing the Attack Weapon Control System for the conversion of four Trident ballistic missile submarines to the SSGN configuration, extending the life of those ships and expanding their ability to meet the United States’ strategic intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and special operations needs around the world.

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. Customers include those in the defense, intelligence, homeland security and homeland defense communities. More information can be found on the World Wide Web at www.gd-ais.com.

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 68,400 people worldwide and anticipates 2004 revenue of $19 billion. The company is a market leader in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation.

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General Dynamics Corporation (ticker: GD, exchange: NYSE)
News Release - Monday, July 12, 2004
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