Raymond Palumbo, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined the board of advisers at special missions systems and services provider Dynamic Aviation. Dynamic Aviation said Thursday the 34-year Army veteran served as director for defense intelligence at the Defense Department and managed DoD’s intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance task force before retiring from military. He led the delivery of multiple aviation […] More

Glen Ackermann, formerly senior director of business development at DynCorp International, has joined Dynamic Aviation as vice president of business development. “His leadership will be instrumental in successfully guiding the business development team and influencing the direction of the organization,” Michael Stoltzfus, president and CEO of Dynamic Aviation, said in a statement Thursday. Ackermann is a […] More

Dynamic Aviation has started work under a contract to provide a King Air E90 utility aircraft for the U.S. Forest Service. The company said Wednesday Forest Service will use the aircraft over LaGrande, Oregon and Alamogordo, New Mexico during wildfire season. USFS aerial tactical group supervisors on planes direct land-based firefighters to manage wildfires. Virginia-based Dynamic Aviation has at least 140 aircraft and […] More

Darrell Pope has been named vice president of flight operations for Dynamic Aviation. He most recently served at Dynamic Aviation as director of ISR flight operations and previously as ISR flight operations manager, Dynamic Aviation said Tuesday. Pope began his aviation career with the U.S. Army, where he flew rotary and fixed-wing aircraft for 28 […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has completed an operational test on the General Dynamics-built Common Aviation Command and Control System at a Marine Corps weapons and tactics instructor course in Arizona. General Dynamics said Wednesday the service branch’s Marine Air-Ground Task Force uses the CAC2S platform that visually integrates C2 data collected from aerial and ground-based radar systems […] More

General Dynamics has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce five Common Aviation Command and Control System. The company will provide limited deployment units of the aviation command-and-control system, with work performed in Arizona, Maryland, Alabama and California through September 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. The award exercises a contract […] More

General Dynamics’ NASSCO subsidiary has begun building the sixth vessel for the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Sea Base program. Named after a Medal of Honor recipient and Korean War veteran, the future USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. will serve as a mobile sea base supporting multiple military operations, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Friday. “The ship […] More

General Dynamics‘ NASSCO business delivered USNS John L. Canley (ESB 6), the fourth ship for the U.S. Navy’s reclassified Expeditionary Sea Base program, to the service branch on Wednesday. According to the Naval Sea Systems Command, the vessel named after Sgt. Maj. John L. Canley can support various military operations, including airborne mine countermeasures and […] More

General Dynamic is an aerospace and defense company focusing on four business groups: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. Since its incorporation in 1952, the company has been receiving contract awards from the federal government, requiring manufactured and developed tanks, missiles, submarines, and electronics for the U.S. military. Let’s look at the top General […] More

General Dynamics is a global leader in defense technology, providing the latest innovations in aerospace, aviation, land systems, maritime systems, and more. It is a partner of choice in electric power, missile defense, precision weapons, and munitions. The company is a leading supplier of major systems and equipment to the U.S. Department of Defense and […] More

A subsidiary of General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has provided the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command with new navigation systems featuring Military GPS User Equipment receiver cards. GPS Source delivered assured positioning navigation and timing or APNT systems to DEVCOM’s Aviation and Missile Center and the Army’s program executive office for missiles and space, […] More

Christian Zur of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Scott Kordella of Mitre wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times that the U.S. needs to have a “single operational picture” to facilitate timely and accurate monitoring of aircraft and space systems and enable the space launch sector to safely coexist with the aviation industry.

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