General Dynamics Corporation

General Dynamics Corporation is a global aerospace and defense company with operations in four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. General Dynamics’ Aerospace segment designs, manufactures, and sells business jets, and provides aircraft maintenance and repair services, aircraft management and charter services, aircraft-on-ground support completion services, staffing services, and fixed-base operator services. The Marine Systems segment builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, auxiliary ships and tankers, cargo ships, and maintenance and modernization services. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and armaments. Finally, the Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services, mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems, as well as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, development, security, and operations services.

General Dynamics also offers a range of other services and products including manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, civil government products, nuclear and environmental management, engineering and technical services, missiles, directed energy weapons, cyber security solutions, and a wide range of communications products and systems. Additionally, the company provides services such as fuel cell system design, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, prototyping and manufacturing, logistics, and sustainment.

The company’s customers include the US Department of Defense, allied militaries, federal and state governments, intelligence agencies, and commercial customers. General Dynamics’ operations span five continents and include several joint ventures with other leading defense and technology companies. The company runs a wide range of programs and projects in domains such as defense, security, aerospace, information technology, and space exploration. In 2017, the company’s annual revenues totaled $31.47 billion.