Editing General Dynamics (section)

{{Short description|Defense manufacturing conglomerate}}
{{Infobox company
| name = General Dynamics Corporation
| logo = General Dynamics logo.svg
| logo_upright = 1.25
| image = General Dynamics Headquarters.jpg
| image_upright = 1.2
| image_caption = The headquarters of General Dynamics in February 2021
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{unbulleted list|{{nyse|GD}}|[[S&P 100]] component|[[S&P 500]] component}}
| industry = {{unbulleted list|[[Aerospace engineering|Aerospace]]|[[Defense (military)|Defense]]|[[Shipbuilding]]}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|1893}} as the ''[[Holland Torpedo Boat Company]]''
| founder = [[John Philip Holland]]
| location_city = [[Reston, Virginia]]
| location_country = United States
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = [[Phebe Novakovic]] ([[chairman]] and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
| products = {{flatlist|
* [[Aircraft flight control system]]
* [[Auxiliary ship]]s
* [[Business jet]]s
* [[Combat vehicle]]s
* [[Communications system]]s
* [[Information technology|IT systems]]
* [[Merchant Marine Act of 1920#U.S. shipbuilding|Jones Act ships]]
* [[Ammunition|Munitions]]
* [[Nuclear submarine|Nuclear-powered submarines]]
* [[Stealth ships|Stealth Ship]]
* [[Tank]]s
* [[Machine vision#Equipment|Vision Systems]]
* [[Watercraft]]
* [[Weapon system]]s
}}
| services = {{flatlist|
* [[Applications of artificial intelligence|Artificial intelligence]]
* [[Air charter|Charter Services]]
* [[Command and control]]
* [[Cybersecurity]]
* [[Fixed-base operator]] (FBO)
* [[Intelligence agency|Intelligence services]]
* [[Information technology|IT]]
* [[IT service management]]
* [[Aircraft maintenance|Maintenance, repair, and overhaul]] (MRO)
* [[Naval architecture|Naval design]]
* [[Shipbuilding]]
* [[Shipbuilding#Ship repair industry|Ship repair]]
* [[Software development]]
}}
| revenue = {{increase}} {{US$|47.7 billion|link=yes}} (2024)
| operating_income = {{increase}} {{US$|4.79 billion}} (2024)
| net_income = {{increase}} {{US$|3.78 billion}} (2024)
| assets = {{increase}} {{US$|55.9 billion}} (2024)
| equity = {{increase}} {{US$|22.1 billion}} (2024)
| num_employees = 117,000 (2024)
| divisions = {{ubl|Aerospace | Marine Systems | Combat Systems | Technologies}}
| subsid = {{flatlist|
* [[Bath Iron Works]]
* [[General Dynamics Electric Boat|Electric Boat]]
* General Dynamics Information Technology
* [[General Dynamics Land Systems]]
* [[General Dynamics Mission Systems]]
* [[General Dynamics UK]]
* [[Gulfstream Aerospace|Gulfstream]]
* [[Jet Aviation]]
* [[Mowag|MOWAG]]
* [[National Steel and Shipbuilding Company|NASSCO]]
}}
| homepage = {{url|https://www.gd.com/|gd.com}}
| footnotes = <ref name="10-K">{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/40533/000004053325000008/gd-20241231.htm |title=General Dynamics Corporation 2024 Annual Report (Form 10-K) |date=February 7, 2025 |publisher=[[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]}}</ref>
| intl = 
}}

'''General Dynamics Corporation''' ('''GD''') is an American [[Public company|publicly traded]] [[Aerospace manufacturer|aerospace]] and [[Military|defense]] corporation headquartered in [[Reston, Virginia]]. As of 2020, it was the fifth largest [[defense contractor]] in the world by arms sales and fifth largest in the United States by total sales.<ref>{{cite web |title=SIPRI Arms Industry Database |url=https://www.sipri.org/databases/armsindustry |publisher=Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |access-date=7 August 2022}}</ref> The company is a [[Fortune 100|''Fortune'' 100]] company and was ranked {{Numero|94}} in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=General Dynamics Company Profile|url=https://fortune.com/company/general-dynamics/fortune500|access-date=2021-12-15|website=Fortune|language=en}}</ref>

Formed in 1952 with the merger of submarine manufacturer [[General Dynamics Electric Boat|Electric Boat]] and aircraft manufacturer [[Canadair]],<ref name="CA sold back">{{Cite news |author=Robert Trumbull |title=General Dynamics to Sell Candadair; Ottawa Says It Will Acquire Aircraft-Manufacturing Unit for $38 Million |date=1975-11-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/29/archives/general-dynamics-to-sell-canadair-ottawa-says-it-will-acquire.html |access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref> the corporation today consists of ten subsidiary companies with operations in 45 countries. The company's products include [[Gulfstream Aerospace|Gulfstream]] business jets, {{sclass|Virginia|submarine|5}} and {{sclass|Columbia|submarine|4}} nuclear-powered submarines, {{sclass|Arleigh Burke|destroyer|4|}} guided-missile destroyers, [[M1 Abrams]] tanks, and [[Stryker]] armored fighting vehicles.

In 2024, General Dynamics had worldwide sales of $47.7 billion and a workforce of approximately 117,000 full-time employees.<ref name="10-K" /> The current [[chairman]] and [[chief executive officer]] (CEO) is [[Phebe Novakovic]].