General Dynamics Wins $110 Million Army Contract

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October 28, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has been awarded a $110.3 million contract to modernize classroom training technology by the U.S. Army Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command. The contract is a one-year task order.

The program will deliver a digital platform for schoolhouse instructors to conduct training and communicate from the schoolhouse to remote training facilities and Army Reserve components.

Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide surveying, engineering, design, systems integration, procurement, staging, installation, testing, training, sustainment and technical assistance support to TRADOC and its classroom sites across the country.

Falls Church, Virginia-based General Dynamics offers business aviation systems, land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions, shipbuilding and marine systems and information systems and technologies.

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