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General Dynamics is the Army's prime contractor for WIN-T, which is part of General Dynamics Mission Systems' tactical voice and data communications systems, The Soldier's Network. Increment 1, now fully deployed, began fielding in 2004 and completed fielding in 2012. [17]
General Dynamics. General Dynamics Corporation ( GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and fifth largest in the United States by total sales. [2]
Sycamore Canyon Test Facility. Coordinates: 32°53′48″N 117°3′24″W. Sycamore Canyon Test Facility is a rocket and weapons test site located east of MCAS Miramar in northern San Diego, in Scripps Ranch. A number of weapons contractors have had facilities at the site including Lockheed-Martin, Hughes Aircraft and General Dynamics.
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, commonly referred to as NASSCO, is an American shipbuilding company with four [2] shipyards located in San Diego, Norfolk, Bremerton, and Mayport. It is a division of General Dynamics. NASSCO owns a subsidiary manufacturing facility with TIMSA in Mexicali, Mexico. The San Diego shipyard specializes in ...
General Atomics was founded on July 18, 1955, in San Diego, California, by Frederic de Hoffmann with assistance from notable physicists Edward Teller and Freeman Dyson. The company was originally part of the General Atomic division of General Dynamics "for harnessing the power of nuclear technologies".
The SM-65 Atlas was the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by the Convair Division of General Dynamics at an assembly plant located in Kearny Mesa, San Diego.
In 1932, the site of Fort Rosecrans was registered as California Historical Landmark #62. From February 1940 through October 1944 Fort Rosecrans was garrisoned by the 19th Coast Artillery Regiment. Aerial view of Naval Base Point Loma. Submarine Group, San Diego was established in 1946, and Submarine Flotilla 1 was activated in 1949.
William Anders. William Alison Anders (17 October 1933 – 7 June 2024) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon.