The State Department has approved a potential sale to Iraq of $97 million in Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems built by BAE Systems and $600 million in vehicle parts made by General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday the proposed sale of 2, 000 APKWS includes spare and repair parts, documentation, personnel training and …

Iraq has requested to procure General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) M1A1 Abrams tank weapons through a potential $600 million foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. The State Department approved Iraq’s planned acquisition of 46, 000 high-explosive anti-tank munitions and kinetic energy warheads for its Abrams battle tanks fleet, the …

General Dynamics‘ information technology business unit has won a $6.9 million bridge contract with the U.S. Army‘s Africa Command to maintain two African news websites, FCW reported Tuesday. Adam Mazmanian writes General Dynamics IT will continue its work on translation, posting of comments, survey writing,  Google Adwords maintenance and page modifications for Magharebia.com and Sabahionline.com. …

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has received $50 million in contract modifications to continue modernization work for combat control systems in U.S. and Australian naval submarines. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has worked on the AN/BYG-1 combat control systems since 2003,  General Dynamics said Tuesday. “By introducing our open architecture framework into …

Rudy deLeon,  a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, has joined General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) board of directors. DeLeon is a former Pentagon chief operating officer and served on both the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council and the National Partnership Council before he left federal service in 2001,  General …

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has received a $311 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide planning yard, engineering and technical services for the branch’s fleet of nuclear submarines. The contract’s value could increase to $1.5 billion over a five-year period if the Navy exercises all options, …

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a potential five-year,  $1.5 billion contract to provide engineering, logistics, technical support and other services for the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear submarines and submersibles. The contract with General Dynamics Electric Boat has a base value of $234 million and also covers design, materials support and research and development, the company …

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) will combine its advanced information systems and C4 systems business units into a single organization that will adopt the name General Dynamics Mission Systems. The company said Monday that the consolidation will take effect in January 2015 and Chris Marzilli, current president of the C4 systems …

PwC will lead a consortium comprised of General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit, as well as electronic health system vendors DSS and Medsphere to compete for a contract to build the U.S. Defense Department‘s future electronic health records system. PwC said Friday that the team will offer an open architecture EHR platform to the military …

General Dynamics UK has been awarded a $5.8 billion contract to build SCOUT specialist vehicle platforms for the British Army. The company will deliver 589 SCOUT SV platforms to the U.K. from 2017 to 2024, as well as perform support and training services for British troops,  General Dynamics said Wednesday. General Dynamics …