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Update General Dynamics article

Hi! I'm posting here on behalf of General Dynamics, a company I have declared my COI. The article is rated C class across the six wiki projects, giving a lot of room for improvement. To start, I noticed some inaccuracies and omissions in the Infobox, Corporate governance, Financials, and See also sections. Below are the suggested improvements to each part of the article. You can also see a draft version of these changes in my Sandbox. Let me know if there are any questions!--Chefmikesf (talk) 19:17, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Factual Article Updates

1.

Location:Infobox

Reason and Request: The current Infobox is out of date and missing data about the company's products and services. My suggestion updates the products, services, financials, and subsidiaries subsections. The Infobox also needs a photo of the headquarters. When the photo is available on Wikimedia Commons, I will update the request.

Current Infobox content

General Dynamics Corporation

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: GD S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Aerospace Defense Shipbuilding
Founded	February 7, 1899 (1899-02-07)
Founder	John Philip Holland
Headquarters	Reston, Virginia , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Phebe Novakovic (Chairman and CEO)
Products	Business jets Combat vehicles and tanks Fighter jets Weapon systems Autocannons and rotary cannons Grenade launchers Munitions Watercraft, Submarines Communications systems, command and control, & IT systems
Revenue	US$36.19 billion (2018)
Operating income	US$4.45 billion (2018)
Net income	US$3.34 billion (2018)
Total assets	US$45.40 billion (2018)
Total equity	US$11.73 billion (2018)
Number of employees	107,000 (2019)
Website	www.gd.com

Proposed Infobox content

General Dynamics Corporation

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: GD S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Aerospace Defense Shipbuilding
Founded	February 7, 1899 (1899-02-07)
Founder	John Philip Holland
Headquarters	Reston, Virginia , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Phebe Novakovic (Chairman and CEO)
Products	Aircraft flight control system Auxiliary ships Business jets Combat vehicles Communications systems IT systems Jones Act ships Munitions Nuclear-powered submarines Stealth Ship Tanks Vision Systems Watercraft Weapon systems
Services	Artificial intelligence Charter Services Command and control Cybersecurity Fixed-base operator (FBO) Intelligence services IT IT service management Maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) Naval design Shipbuilding Ship repair Software development
Revenue	US$39.350 billion (2019)
Operating income	US$4.648 billion (2019)
Net income	US$3.438 billion (2019)
Total assets	US$50.258 billion (2019)
Total equity	US$14.716 billion (2019)
Number of employees	104,000 (2020)
Subsidiaries	Bath Iron Works Electric Boat General Dynamics Information Technology General Dynamics Land Systems General Dynamics Mission Systems General Dynamics UK Gulfstream Jet Aviation MOWAG NASSCO
Website	www.gd.com

2.

Location: Corporate Governance

Reason and Request: Corporate governance should have its own section. Based on WP:Companies guidelines, I'm suggested Corporate governance has its own section following the History section. Second, I created a table with the name and role for each of the board members.

Current Corporate governance content

Current members of the board of directors of General Dynamics are: Catherine Reynolds, Nicholas Chabraja, James Crown, William Fricks, Paul Kaminski, John Keane, Lester Lyles, Phebe Novakovic, William A. Osborn, Laura J. Schumacher and Robert Walmsley.

Proposed Corporate governance content

General Dynamics current chief executive officer is Phebe N. Novakovic.

Board Member	Role
Phebe N. Novakovic	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
James S. Crown	Lead Director and Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Rudy F. deLeon	Director and Chair, Finance and Benefit Plans Committee
Cecil D. Haney	Director
Mark M. Malcolm	Director and Chair, Audit Committee
James N. Mattis	Director
C. Howard Nye	Director
William A. Osborn	Director
Catherine B. Reynolds	Director
Laura J. Schumacher	Director and Chair, Compensation Committee
John G. Stratton	Director
Peter A. Wall	Director

Current as of December 2020

3.

Location: Financials

Reason and Request: Financials section should have its own section. Based on WP:Companies, I'm suggested the Financials section have its own section following the Corporate governance section. Second, the current Financials section contains extraneous content not relevant to the section. My thoughts are to fold some of the content into the History section, e.g., paragraphs two and four, then remove the extraneous content, e.g., paragraph three.

Current Financials content

General Dynamics has $30.9 billion in sales as of 2017 primarily military, but also civilian with its Gulfstream Aerospace unit and conventional shipbuilding and repair with its National Steel and Shipbuilding subsidiary.

In 2004, General Dynamics bid for the UK company Alvis plc, the leading British manufacturer of armored vehicles. In March the board of Alvis Vickers voted in favor of the £309m takeover. However at the last minute BAE Systems offered £355m for the company. This deal was finalized in June 2004.

The corporation's subsidiaries are donors to the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

10% of General Dynamic stock is owned by the Crown family, which includes Nancy Carrington Crown and Steven Crown. This is the family's largest single asset.

Financial data in $ millions

Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Revenue	20,975	24,063	27,240	29,300	31,981	32,466	32,677	30,992	30,930	30,852	31,781	30,561	30,973
Net income	1,461	1,856	2,072	2,459	2,394	2,624	2,526	−332	2,357	2,533	3,036	2,572	2,912
Assets	19,700	22,376	25,733	28,373	31,077	32,545	34,883	34,309	35,494	35,337	31,997	33,172	35,046
Employees									96,000	99,500	99,900	98,800	98,600

Proposed Financials content

For the fiscal year 2019, General Dynamics reported net income of US$3.484 billion, with an annual revenue of US$39.350 billion, an increase of 8.72% over the previous fiscal cycle. General Dynamics's shares traded at over $150 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$43.27 billion in January 2021.

Year	Revenue in mil. US$	Net income in mil. US$	Assets in mil. US$	Employees
2005	20,975	1,461	19,700	72,200
2006	24,063	1,856	22,376	81,000
2007	27,240	2,072	25,733	83,500
2008	29,300	2,459	28,373	92,300
2009	31,981	2,394	31,077	91,700
2010	32,466	2,624	32,545	90,000
2011	32,677	2,526	34,883	95,100
2012	30,992	(332)	34,309	92,200
2013	30,930	2,357	35,494	96,000
2014	30,852	2,533	35,337	99,500
2015	31,781	3,036	31,997	99,900
2016	30,561	2,572	33,172	98,800
2017	30,973	2,912	35,046	98,600
2018	36,193	3,345	45,408	105,600
2019	39,350	3,484	48,841	102,900
2020				104,000

Current as of December 2020.

4.

Location: See Also

Reason and Request: Please add relevant articles to the See also section.

Current See also content

• Top 100 Contractors of the U.S. federal government
• List of companies headquartered in Northern Virginia

Proposed See also content

• Top 100 Contractors of the U.S. federal government
• List of companies headquartered in Northern Virginia
• List of military aircraft of the United States
• List of United States defense contractors
• List of current ships of the United States Navy
• List of currently active United States military land vehicles
• List of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies
• List of shipbuilders and shipyards

Edit Requests for General Dynamics Wikipedia article

General Dynamics Wikipedia Article Edit Requests

1.

Location: Lead

Reason and Request:The current Lead paragraph is outdated. Please update key factual data points with proposed copy below.

Existing Lead Paragraph sentence

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 5th largest in the United States by total sales. The company is a Fortune 100 company, and was ranked No. 83 in 2020.

Formed in 1954 with the merger of submarine manufacturer Electric Boat and aircraft manufacturer Canadair, the corporation today consists of ten subsidiary companies with operations in 45 countries. The company's products include Gulfstream business jets, Virginia- and Columbia-class nuclear-powered submarines, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, M1 Abrams tanks and Stryker armored fighting vehicles.

In 2020, General Dynamics had worldwide sales of $37.9 billion and a workforce of more than 100,000 full-time employees. The current chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) is Phebe Novakovic.

Proposed Lead Paragraph sentence update

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded, aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2021, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and 5th largest in the United States by total sales. The company is a Fortune 100 company, and was ranked No. 94 in 2022.

Formed in 1954 with the merger of submarine manufacturer Electric Boat and aircraft manufacturer Canadair, the corporation today consists of ten subsidiary companies with operations in 45 countries. The company's products include Gulfstream business jets, Virginia- and Columbia-class nuclear-powered submarines, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, M1 Abrams tanks and Stryker armored fighting vehicles.

In 2020, General Dynamics had worldwide sales of $38.5 billion and a workforce of more than 103,000 full-time employees. The current chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) is Phebe Novakovic.

2.

Location: Acquisitions timeline

Reason and Request: The current Timeline section mixes acquisitions, historical events, and executive leadership changes. The proposed content cleans up the content and turns it into a comprehensive acquisition and divestiture section. Please replace the current section with the proposed section.

Existing Timeline content

Timeline Electric Boat was established in 1899.

20th-century acquisitions

• 1946 – Canadair purchased from the Canadian government.
• 1952 – Electric Boat became General Dynamics.
• 1953 – Convair merged with General Dynamics.
• 1955 – Acquired Stromberg-Carlson.
• 1957 - Purchased Liquid Carbonic Corporation of Chicago, Illinois, on September 30.
• 1959 – Henry Crown acquires company and becomes majority shareholder.
• 1962–1963 – Convair-produced Mercury-Atlas rockets launch four manned Mercury missions into low Earth orbit, including John Glenn.
• 1971–1985 David S. Lewis, Jr., was chairman and chief executive officer. During his tenure, General Dynamics' revenues and earnings quadrupled.
• 1982 – Formed General Dynamics Land Systems after the acquisition of Chrysler's combat systems.
• 1995 – Acquired Bath Iron Works from Prudential Insurance.
• 1996 – Acquired Teledyne Vehicle Systems.
• 1997 – Acquired Lockheed Martin Defense Systems and Lockheed Martin Armament Systems.
• 1997 – Acquired Advanced Technology Systems, formerly an operating unit of Lucent Technologies.
• 1997 – Acquired Computing Devices International, formerly a division of Ceridian Corporation.
• 1998 – Acquired National Steel and Shipbuilding Company.
• 1999 – Acquired Gulfstream Aerospace from Forstmann Little.
• 1999 – Acquired GTE Government Systems, Communication Systems, Electronic Systems and Worldwide Telecommunication Systems Divisions.
• 2000 – Acquired Saco Defense from New Colt Holding Corp. which owned it since 1998.

21st-century acquisitions

• 2001 – Acquired PrimeX Technologies Inc.
• 2001 – Acquired Galaxy Aerospace Company from Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI).
• 2001 – Acquired Spain's Santa Bárbara Sistemas, one of the world's oldest arms manufacturers.
• 2002 – Acquired German company EWK Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern, and changed its name to General Dynamics European Land Systems-Germany.
• 2003 – Acquired GM Defense from General Motors.
• 2003 – Acquired the Austrian heavy vehicle company Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug (SSF) from an Austrian investor group and formed the basis of General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS).
• 2003 – Acquired Veridian and Digital Systems Resources.
• 2003 – Acquired Datron's Intercontinental Manufacturing Company (IMCO) Unit.
• 2004 – Acquired Spectrum Astro.
• 2005 – Acquired MAYA Viz Ltd, the primary developer of the US Army's Command Post of the Future software into General Dynamics C4 Systems.
• 2005 – Acquired Tadpole Computer.
• 2005 – Acquired Itronix.
• 2006 – Acquired FC Business Systems.
• 2006 – Acquired Anteon International.
• 2007 – Acquired Mediaware International.
• 2008 – Acquired ViPS, Inc.
• 2008 – Acquired Jet Aviation.
• 2009 – Acquired Axletech International.
• 2010 – Acquired Kylmar Ltd.
• 2011 – Acquired Vangent, Inc. from The Veritas Capital Fund III, LP.
• 2011 – Acquired Metro Machine Imperial Docks Inc.
• 2011 – Acquired Force Protection Inc.
• 2012 – Acquired Open Kernel Labs.
• 2012 – Acquired Applied Physical Sciences.
• 2016 - Acquired Bluefin Robotics into General Dynamics Mission Systems.
• 2018 – Acquired CSRA Inc. for about $6.8 billion.

Divestitures

• 1967 – General Atomics was sold to Gulf Oil.
• 1969 - Forced by Federal order to divest itself of Liquid Carbonic Corporation in January; Liquid Carbonic was then purchased by Houston Natural Gas Co.
• 1976 – Canadair sold back to the Canadian government.
• 1981 – Following expropriation legislation passed by the government of the Province of Quebec, General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary sold its 54.6% controlling interest in Asbestos Corporation Limited to the Quebec government-owned corporation, Société nationale de l'amiante (SNA).
• 1991 – Data Systems Division sold to Computer Sciences Corporation.
• 1992 – Tactical Missiles Division to Hughes Aircraft Company
• 1992 – Cessna was sold to Textron.
• 1992 – Electronics Division sold to Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C. and renamed GDE Systems.
• 1993 – Fort Worth Division, a producer of fixed-wing military aircraft, was sold to Lockheed Corporation.
• 1993 – Space Systems Division was sold to Martin Marietta.
• 1994 – Convair's aerostructures unit's manufacturing work in San Diego was transferred to McDonnell Douglas.
• 2006 – Material Service to Hanson.
• 2007 – Freeman United Coal Mining Co. sold to Springfield Coal Co. for an undisclosed amount.
• 2010 – Spacecraft development and manufacturing (a business group within the Advanced Information Systems division) to Orbital Sciences Corporation.
• 2014 – Advanced Systems (another business line within Advanced Information Systems) to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates

Proposed Acquisitions timeline content

Acquisitions timeline

20th-century acquisitions

Year	Acquisition	Business group
1947	Canadair	Aerospace
1953	Convair	Aerospace
1955	Stromberg-Carlson	Combat Systems
1957	Liquid Carbonic Corporation	Aerospace
1959	Material Service Corporation
1982	Chrysler's combat systems	Combat Systems
1995	Bath Iron Works	Marine Systems
1996	Teledyne Vehicle Systems	Marine Systems
1997	Advanced Technology Systems	Combat Systems
1997	Lockheed Martin Defense Systems	Combat Systems
1997	Lockheed Martin Armament Systems	Combat Systems
1997	Computing Devices International	Technologies
1998	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company	Marine Systems
1999	Gulfstream Aerospace	Aerospace
1999	GTE Government Systems	Technologies
2000	Saco Defense	Combat Systems

21st-century acquisitions

Year	Acquisition	Business group
2001	PrimeX Technologies Inc.	Technologies
2001	Motorola Integrated Systems	Technologies
2001	Galaxy Aerospace Company	Aerospace
2001	Santa Bárbara Sistemas	Combat Systems
2002	EWK Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern	Combat Systems
2003	GM Defense	Combat Systems
2003	Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug	Combat Systems
2003	Veridian and Digital Systems Resources	Technologies
2003	Datron's Intercontinental Manufacturing Company	Combat Systems
2004	Spectrum Astro	Aerospace
2004	MOWAG	Combat Systems
2005	MAYA Viz Ltd	Technologies
2005	Tadpole Computer	Technologies
2005	Itronix	Technologies
2006	FC Business Systems	Technologies
2006	Anteon International	Technologies
2007	Mediaware International	Technologies
2008	ViPS, Inc.	Technologies
2008	Jet Aviation	Aerospace
2009	Axletech International	Combat Systems
2010	Kylmar Ltd.	Combat Systems
2011	Vangent, Inc.	Technologies
2011	Metro Machine Imperial Docks Inc.	Marine Systems
2011	Force Protection Inc.	Combat Systems
2012	Earl Industries’ Ship Repair Division	Marine Systems
2012	Open Kernel Labs	Technologies
2012	Applied Physical Sciences	Aerospace
2016	Bluefin Robotics	Marine Systems
2018	CSRA Inc.	Technologies
2018	Hawker Pacific	Aerospace
2018	FWW Fahrzeugwerk GmbH	Combat Systems

Divestitures

Year	Divestiture	Purchaser
1946	General Atomics	Gulf Oil
1953	Liquid Carbonic Corporation	Houston Natural Gas Co.
1957	Asbestos Corporation Limited	Société nationale de l'amiante (SNA)
1976	Canadair	Canadian government
1991	Data Systems Division	Computer Sciences Corporation
1995	Tactical Missiles Division	Hughes Aircraft Company
1992	Cessna	Textron
1993	Fort Worth Division (F-16s)	Lockheed Corporation
1994	Space Systems Division	Martin Marietta
1994	Convair's aerostructure unit	McDonnell Douglas
1997	Electronics Division	The Carlyle Group
1998	Material Service	Hanson
1999	Freeman United Coal Mining Co.	Springfield Coal Co.
1999	Spacecraft development and manufacturing	Orbital Sciences Corporation
2000	Advanced Systems	MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates

3.

Location: Corporate Governance

Reason and Request: The Corporate governance section is outdated. Please update to match 2022 filings.

Current Corporate Governance

General Dynamics current chief executive officer is Phebe N. Novakovic.

Board Member	Role
Phebe N. Novakovic	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
James S. Crown	Lead Director and Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Rudy F. deLeon	Director and Chair, Finance and Benefit Plans Committee
Cecil D. Haney	Director
Mark M. Malcolm	Director and Chair, Audit Committee
James N. Mattis	Director
C. Howard Nye	Director
William A. Osborn	Director
Catherine B. Reynolds	Director
Laura J. Schumacher	Director and Chair, Compensation Committee
John G. Stratton	Director
Peter A. Wall	Director

As of December 2020

Proposed Corporate Governance

Corporate governance

General Dynamics current chairman and chief executive officer is Phebe N. Novakovic.

Board Member	Role
Phebe N. Novakovic	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
James S. Crown	Lead Director
Rudy F. deLeon	Director
Cecil D. Haney	Director and Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Mark M. Malcolm	Director
James N. Mattis	Director
C. Howard Nye	Director and Chair, Audit Committee
Robert K. Steel	Director and Chair, Sustainability Committee
Catherine B. Reynolds	Director and Chair, Finance and Benefit Plans Committee
Laura J. Schumacher	Director and Chair, Compensation Committee
John G. Stratton	Director
Peter A. Wall	Director

Current as of December 2022.

4.

Location: Add Carbon emissions after the Acquisitions timeline section

Reason and Request: The article lacks content about the company's carbon emissions data. The content is modeled after the content on other similar F500 company articles on Wikipedia.

Proposed Carbon emissions Section

Carbon emissions

General Dynamics reported Total CO2e emissions (Direct + Indirect) for the 2021 at 696,118 mt (-8.7% year over year) and aims to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2034. The company is on track to become Carbon neutral before 2060.

Company annual total CO2e Emissions - Location-Based Scope 1 + Scope 2 (in kilotonnes)

General Dynamics's annual total CO2e Emissions - Location-Based Scope 1 + Scope 2 (in Metric Tons)

2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
901,666	817,293	821,773	784,264	794,161	762,200	696,118

5.

Location: Add Company Demographics after Carbon emissions section

Reason and Request: The article lacks content about the company's demographics data.

Proposed Company Demographics section

Company Demographics

In 2021, General Dynamics U.S. workforce was 21% veterans, 23% female, and 27% people of color. The US Department of Labor awarded the company the 2021 HIRE Vets Gold Award.

The company has 26 Employee Resource Groups serving 10 employee segments.

Approximately 20% of the company's employees are represented by labor unions such as International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).

Independent research published by American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), U.S. Department of Labor, Military Times, U.S. Veterans Magazine, Professional Women's Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune Magazine selected General Dynamics as a top employer.

General Dynamics' community contributions in 2021 were 70% in Education & Social Services, 18% in Arts & Culture, and 12% in Service Member Support.