Category Archives: General Dynamics

GD Demos Roll-Controlled Guided Mortar

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 23, 2009
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has announced that it has successfully developed and tested a new approach for low-cost guided mortars called the 120mm Roll-Controlled Guided Mortar (RCGM). Under a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., General Dynamics successfully tube-launched and guided RCGM prototypes from a M120 120mm [...]
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GD wins Army contract for non-lethal vehicle stopper

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 22, 2009
General Dynamics Inc., Bothwell, Wash., was awarded on Sept. 18, 2009 a $13,274,349 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of a non-lethal portable vehicle immobilization device. Work is to be performed in Moses Lake, Wash., with an estimated completion date of Sept. 10, 2014. Bids were solicited on the World Wide Web with five [...]
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There can be only one–Navy to “downselect” to single LCS builder

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 16, 2009
After running on two parallel tracks with the Littoral Combat Ship, the Navy’s new combatant ship designed for near-shore and shallow-water operations, the Navy announced today that it was cancelling further purchases on the existing contract structure with General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin and would pick one winner for the construction of 10 more ships [...]
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year for primes — more C4ISR contract announcements

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 15, 2009
(Editor’s note:  Because of the volume of contracts announced this week, I’ll be following up with more detail in a seperate post.) ARMY: Flir Systems Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., was awarded on Sept. 10, 2009, a $15,389,821 delivery order (GSA). This requirement is for the procurement of the Star Safire II System Support Kits in support of [...]
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Army contracts for CROWS and rockets in end-of-FY buying spree

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 14, 2009
The Army released a whole pile of contracts last week in an end-of-FY buying spree. I’ll be parsing through these–and the latest Air Force and Navy contracts–over the next day. Here are two of note:                 General Dynamics Land Systems won two change-order fixed price contracts for $6.1 million and $18.2 million, for [...]
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Contract Watch: C4ISR and platform highlights for Sept. 3

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 3, 2009
Here’s a roundup of this week’s contract announcements so far with a tech angle: AIR FORCE: In a continuation of its 2006 program award, Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Systems & Solutions was awarded a $421,098,648 modified contract for its Air and Space Operations Center, Weapon System Integrator program to cover fielding, sustainment, systems engineering, integration, modernization, maintenance, [...]
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