General Dynamics
Defense manufacturing conglomerate
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| March 4 2025 | Chinese Ministry of Commerce placed General Dynamics Land Systems on its export control list, barring the export of dual-use commodities. |
| 2025 | Self Adjusting Track Tensioner (SATT) patented and tested on the ASCOD 2 vehicle platform. |
| 2024 | General Dynamics IT was awarded a $493 million contract by The Pentagon. |
| 2024 | Rapid retirement of F-16 C/D models begins with the introduction of F-22 stealth fighter and mass production of F-35, significantly reducing the active fleet of F-16 variants in the U.S. Air Force and National Guard. |
| 2024 | Planned production of the VAC vehicle, a successor to the 600 M113 in the Spanish Army, to be based on the VCZ Castor chassis and produced by Tess defence, a joint venture of SBS and other companies. |
| July 22 2024 | First two F-16 aircraft delivered to Slovakia. |
| April 11 2024 | Chinese Foreign Ministry announced sanctions on General Dynamics Land Systems due to its arms sales to Taiwan. |
| 2023 | Turkish Air Force announced that the Özgür upgrade will be applied to other F-16 aircraft, starting with Block 40 variants. |
| October 14 2023 | Commissioned USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795), the latest Virginia class submarine, continuing Electric Boat's long-standing submarine construction legacy. |
| September 7 2023 | First completed F-16 jet for Slovakia was unveiled by the manufacturer. |
| January 2023 | General Dynamics UK missed the deadline to file its statement of accounts, with the total procurement cost estimated at £5.5 billion. |
| 2022 | The United States Air Force announced a major modernization program to upgrade 608 F-16 Block 40 and Block 50 aircraft to the advanced F-16 Block 70 (F-16V) standard, representing a significant enhancement of the fighter jet's capabilities. |
| March 2022 | The UK government commissioned Clive Sheldon KC to conduct a review into the procurement failings of the Ajax armoured vehicles contract. |
| September 30 2021 | Turkey formally requested to purchase 40 new F-16 Block 70/72 aircraft and modernization kits. |
| May 2021 | US Air Force awarded $14 billion contract to Lockheed Martin for building 128 Block 70/72 F-16 Fighting Falcons for multiple countries through 2026. |
| 2020 | General Dynamics was the primary contractor for a United States military-run disinformation campaign about the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, targeting the Philippines from spring 2020 to mid-2021. |
| 2020 | United States approved plans to further upgrade Romanian F-16s to the M.6.5.2 configuration. |
| December 26 2020 | General Dynamics Land Systems was awarded a $4.6 billion contract by the U.S. Army for M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks. |
| September 2020 | General Dynamics announced a strategic counter-drone partnership with Dedrone, providing global network access to drone detection and defeat technology. |
| July 2020 | Delivered the first variant of the Ajax family, the Ares armoured personnel carrier, to the British Army. |
| March 3 2020 | Royal Jordanian Air Force announced interest in purchasing latest F-16 Block 70/72 model to replace current fleet. |
| 2019 | EB received a contract with Naval Sea Systems Command to begin procuring materials for the Block V variant of the Virginia-class submarine, which introduces the Virginia payload module enabling Tomahawk missile capabilities. |
| November 2019 | FWW Fahrzeugwerk GmbH became GDELS - FWW GmbH, specializing in repairing wheeled and tracked vehicles and components for the Bundeswehr, NATO, Western European countries, and the United Nations. |
| August 2019 | Former U.S. Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis re-joined General Dynamics' board of directors after previously resigning before becoming Secretary of Defense. |
| August 16 2019 | US State Department submitted F-16V package to Congress for Taiwan, worth $8 billion for 66 Block 70 aircraft and spare parts. |
| March 25 2019 | US Department of Defense announced Foreign Military Sales of F-16V hardware to Morocco, including upgrades to 23 existing F-16s and 25 new Block 72 airframes. |
| February 27 2019 | Taiwan requested to buy 66 new F-16 Block 70/72 airframes to replace aging Mirage 2000 and F-5 fighters. |
| February 20 2019 | Lockheed Martin unveiled the F-21 concept at the Aero India air show, proposing a specialized variant for the Indian market with 114 'Indian Specific Enhancements'. |
| 2018 | General Dynamics acquired CSRA, an information technology services company, for $9.7 billion and merged it with GDIT. |
| December 2018 | General Dynamics warned of potential 'billions of dollars in liability' if Canada were to cancel the Saudi Arabian arms deal. |
| December 2018 | Bulgaria chose sixteen F-16 Block 70s as replacements for MiG-29s. |
| December 30 2018 | CEO Phebe Novakovic warned investors about significant cash flow impact due to Saudi Arabia being nearly $2 billion in arrears on payments. |
| December 12 2018 | Slovakia signed contract with Lockheed Martin for F-16 aircraft purchase. |
| November 2018 | General Dynamics Corporation acquired FWW Fahrzeugwerk GmbH in Woldegk, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. |
| September 2018 | U.S. Navy awarded contracts for 10 new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Huntington Ingalls Industries. |
| September 2018 | The U.S. Navy awarded contracts to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works for 10 new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. |
| July 11 2018 | Slovakia announced intention to purchase 14 F-16 Block 70 aircraft to replace aging MiG-29s. |
| June 2018 | Bahrain finalized order for 16 new-build F-16V aircraft. |
| April 2018 | Indian Air Force launched a Request for Information for a tender of approximately 110 aircraft, unofficially referred to as MRFA, after cancelling the previous MMRCA tender. |
| April 2018 | US State Department approved Foreign Military Sale to Slovakia for 14 new F-16Vs. |
| April 2018 | US approved sale of 123 upgrade kits to Greece to bring existing F-16C and D fighters to Block 72 standard. |
| 2017 |
Awarded a £330 million contract to supply tactical communication and information systems for the UK Ministry of Defence's Morpheus programme.
GDUK awarded £330 million contract to develop next-generation battlefield network for British Army - Defence Online
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General Dynamics UK Awarded £330 Million Contract to Develop Next-Generation Battlefield Network for British Army | General Dynamics - General Dynamics
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| September 2017 | US State Department approved Foreign Military Sale to Bahrain for 19 new-build F-16V and upgrade of 20 existing F-16C/D Block 40 aircraft. |
| January 2017 | Upgrade of Taiwan's 144 F-16A/B Block 20 aircraft to F-16V standard began. |
| 2016 | Became part of Team Challenger 2 consortium, awarded an Assessment Phase contract for the Challenger 2 Life Extension Project by the UK Ministry of Defence. |
| 2016 | Opened an assembly, integration, and testing facility for Ajax vehicles in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. |
| 2015 | Tape M7 was implemented for F-16 MLU aircraft. |
| 2015 | GDLS Canada secured a fourteen-year, $15-billion deal to supply light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, which sparked controversy due to human rights concerns. |
| October 16 2015 | The F-16V completed its first flight with APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar AESA, new Center Pedestal Display, modernized mission computer, and Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System. |
| 2014 | General Dynamics Land Systems in London, Ontario was selected to produce Light Armoured Vehicles for Saudi Arabia as part of a $10 billion deal with the Canadian Commercial Corporation. |
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