GD Awarded $34 M Army Contract for Small-Caliber Ammunition

(St. Petersburg, Fla., October 8, 2008) -- General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a $33.6 million contract by the U.S. Army Field Support Command, Rock Island, Ill. for production of small-caliber ammunition.

General Dynamics and its consortium of small-caliber ammunition manufacturers will provide additional quantities of 5.56mm, 7.62mm and .50 caliber small arms ammunition under the existing contract. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Source : General Dynamics

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