General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a long-cycle defense contractor and business jet manufacturer. The firm's segments include aerospace, combat systems, marine, information technology, and mission systems. The company manufactures Gulfstream business jets, combat vehicles, nuclear-powered submarines, communication systems, and related products. The company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and employs over 100,000 people in forty-three countries.

Across the company's four main business segments, aerospace works to design, develop, manufacture, and service advanced business-jet aircraft; combat systems works to produce, support, and sustain land and expeditionary combat systems for the United States military and allies; marine systems designs, builds, and supports submarines and surface ships for the United States Navy and commercial customers; and the information systems and technology segment offers technology and service capabilities to support a range of government and commercial needs, including systems integration expertise, hardware and software, engineering, management, and support services.

General Dynamics offers the Gulfstream line of business jets. This includes the fleet of G280, G550, G500, G600, G650, G650ER, and the G700. These jets are designed, developed, and manufactured at the Gulfstream headquarters in Savannah Georgia, where the Research and Development center is also housed. This campus includes the engineers and staff who research, test, and develop Gulfstream aircraft. The manufacturing facilities of Gulfstream holds a Federal Aviation Administration Product Certificate. This counts more than 900 lean specialist trainees among their employees. They also offer courses in more than fifteen different processes and tools focused on lean initiatives.

Gulfstream G650ER

The Gulfstream aircraft are designed to increase the technology available in business jets. This includes the first enhanced vision system included by a civilian aircraft manufacturer. The infrared-assisted vision system offers a tool to help pilots fly at night and in obscured-vision situations. These aircraft include other advancements, such as a synthetic vision terrain mapping system, in-flight high-speed internet access, and in-flight computerized monitoring systems notifying technicians when service is necessary.

Jet Aviation has been a manufacturer of aircraft since 1967 and is a part of General Dynamics. The company works out of a maintenance hangar in Basel, Switzerland. The company's offerings include the following:

• Aircraft management
• Charter
• Completions
• Defense
• FBO
• Maintenance
• Staffing
• Aircraft Sales, including the sale and maintenance of new or pre-owned aircraft, which can include piston, turboprop, jet, and rotary aircraft.

General Dynamics has three different marine systems under the company, which work to design, build, and repair nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, auxiliary and combat-logistics ships, and commercial Jones Act ships. General Dynamics has a presence on both United States coasts and a long history as a primary shipbuilder for the United States Navy.

Since 1884, Bath Iron Works and General Dynamics have delivered more than 425 ships to naval and commercial fleets. This includes more contemporary ships, such as the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, which has been a technologically advanced surface ship during its lifetime. Bath Iron Works is also a partner in the development and production of the Zumwalt class guided-missile destroyer, which is intended to be the United States Navy's next-generation, multi-mission, naval surface combatant.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51)

This is a multi-mission combatant destroyer, which offers defense against a range of threats, including ballistic missiles. The DDG-51 is capable of operating in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups, and replenishment groups, to provide an array of anti-submarine, anti-air, and anti-surface capabilities. The ship is also designed for survivability in combat scenarios with an all-steel construction and gas turbine propulsion system.

The Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG-1000)

The DDG-1000 destroyer is intended to be the next generation of guided-missile naval destroyers for the United States Navy. This ship is intended to feature a low radar profile, an integrated power system, and a total ship computing environment infrastructure. The destroyer is intended to carry an array of weapons to provide offensive, distributed, and precision fire in support of forces ashore.

Electric Boat was established in 1899 and was able to deliver the first submarine to the United States Navy in 1900 and the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, in 1954. Since then, Electric Boat has designed fifteen of nineteen classes of nuclear submarine and has delivered one hundred nuclear submarines to the United States Navy. These include the Virginia-class attack submarine and the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.

Virginia class attack submarine

The Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN) are designed for various mission roles, including littoral and open-ocean environment operations for intelligence collection critical to the full spectrum of warfare. These submarine are intended to offer extended submerged operations with stealth, endurance, mobility, and firepower. A newer generation of the SSN is being built with the Virginia Payload Module to increase the strike capacity and other undersea warfare capabilities.

Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines

Designed and developed by Electric Boat, the Oho-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines are both part of the United States Navy's strategic deterrent mission. The SSBN fleet is intended to be a survivable leg of the nuclear Triad, carrying 70 percent of the nation's deployed nuclear weapons. The Columbia class program begins construction in 2021, with the expectation of the Columbia class submarine to replace the aging Ohio class submarines.

NASSCO is a specialized developer of auxiliary and support ships in the United States Navy and oil tankers and dry cargo carriers for the commercial markets. For commercial markets, NASSCO has experience in all phases of shipbuilding for customers, including designing and delivering a liquefied natural gas-powered containership intended to decrease emissions with increased fuel efficiency. These also include ship repair operations, with capabilities including advanced ship repair, and the conversion and maintenance for both commercial and national defense assets.

Example of a NASSCO auxiliary ship

For the United States Navy, NASSCO builds the Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships, which are auxiliary support ships that serve as floating transfer stations. These are configured to have a 52,000 square-foot flight deck, fuel and equipment storage, repair spaces, magazines, mission planning spaces, and accommodations for up to 250 personnel. The ESB ships are capable of supporting multiple missions, including air mine counter measures, counter-piracy operations, maritime security operations, humanitarian aid and disaster relief missions, and United States Marine Corps crisis response.

The General Dynamics Combat Systems division is a designer, manufacturer, and integrator of land combat machines. This includes wheeled and tracked combat vehicles and a broad range of high-performance weapons systems and munitions.

The European Land Systems designs and manufactures light tactical and wheeled armored vehicles. These are from the divisions operations in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. The division has produced more than 10,000 vehicles fielded globally and in operation more than thirty years while continuously improving the 6x6 and 8x8 family of vehicles. The tactical vehicle families Duro and Eagle are intended to complement the Piranha and Pandur family, intended to offer a range tactical and logistics vehicles in the 6- to 10-ton weight class.

European Land Systems also develops a range of tracked vehicles, including the Ascod vehicle, which is designed to operate with main battle tanks. The division also develops a range of military bridging systems for all forces. These include floating and dry-gap bridge systems in use in more than twenty countries.

Land Systems is a developer of tracked and wheeled military vehicles. This includes the Abrams main battle tank, the family of Stryker and LAV wheeled combat vehicles, and the AJAX armored fighting vehicles. Land Systems light armored vehicles (LAVs) are intended to offer combat-proven survivability. And the Land Systems division also develops the Buffalo and Cougar vehicles and related variants, designed for domestic and international military customers and to protect occupants from land mines, hostile fire, and IEDs.

The Abrams main battle tank

The Abrams tank is a main battle tank developed by General Dynamics Land Systems division. The tank entered service in the United States in 1980 and has remained a top tank choice for the United States Army, National Guard, and Marine Corps, as well as several allies. The Abrams tank is intended to offer mobility, lethality, adaptability, and maintainability in all elements, with survivability continuing to be a key of the development of the Abrams tank.

The eight-wheeled Stryker

The wheeled Stryker vehicles are developed and manufactured to provide versatility, survivability, lethality, and maneuverability across a range of missions. The eight-wheeled, medium-weight Stryker, introduced in 2000, works to provide operators versatility, survivability, lethality, and maneuverability; while the Stryker Double-V Hull is known to offer great protection for operators.

The Ordnance and Tactical Systems of General Dynamics manufactures a breadth of naval, air, and ground forces munitions for all calibers and weapon platforms. This includes heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and weapon systems for shipboard applications and fighter aircraft. These are weapon systems such as the GAU-19/B .50 caliber Gatling gun, an externally powered three-barrel system with a rate of fire of 1300 rounds per minute. Or the Hydra-70 family of rockets, offering unguided rockets with several warhead configurations.

The Technologies division of General Dynamics provides a spectrum of services, technologies, and products for electronic hardware and specialized software. These products serve a range of military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers. This includes IT solutions and mission-support services, such as mobile communication, computers, command-and-control mission systems, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions.