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

LONDON, Ontario, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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 http://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
http://www.generaldynamics.com.
SOURCE General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada

Ken Yamashita of General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, +1-519-964-5813, Fax,
+1-519-964-5488, yamashik@gdls.com