General Dynamics Corp (GD) company profile

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company operating across four operating segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The company designs, engineers, and manufactures business jet aircraft, nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatant and auxiliary vessels, land combat vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, and command-and-control mission systems, alongside providing IT modernization, cybersecurity, and cloud solutions. Its customer base includes the U.S. government—primarily the Department of War, the intelligence community, and federal civilian agencies—along with foreign allied defense forces and commercial clients comprising corporate operators and individual aircraft owners.

The company operates through ten business units with a multinational footprint spanning North America and Europe, including longstanding operations and facilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, and Romania. Its aviation services include approximately 30 fixed-base operator facilities across four continents and global support for an active fleet exceeding 3,000 aircraft. Key production and service concentrations are located in Savannah, Georgia, as well as multiple naval shipyard and maintenance facilities across California, Virginia, Washington, and Florida.

Summary of the business section of General Dynamics's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“The segment’s highly skilled workforce comprises approximately 40,000 employees, including technologists, engineers, mission experts and cleared personnel critical to solving the toughest security and technology challenges facing the United States and its allies.”