General Dynamics Awarded $16 Million for RG-31 MRAP Spare Parts

LONDON, Ontario – The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada a $15.8 million contract for spare parts in support of RG-31 Mk5E vehicles under the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) program. General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company’s parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD)

On July 17, General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada was awarded a delivery order for 773 RG-31 Mk5E vehicles for the MRAP program. In total 1,397 General Dynamics RG-31 vehicles have been ordered under the MRAP program.

Both contracts were signed through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Agency of the Canadian Government.

General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada, located in London, Ontario, Canada is a business unit of General Dynamics Land Systems of Sterling Heights, Michigan. For over 30 years, more than 1,800 highly skilled technical employees have designed, manufactured, delivered and supported to global customers a unique family of light armoured vehicles (LAV). More information on the company is available at www.gdlscanada.com.

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs approximately 84,600 people worldwide and anticipates 2008 revenues of approximately $29.5 billion. The company is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and information systems and technologies. More information about the company is available on the Internet at www.generaldynamics.com.
 

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