General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company involved in the space industry through its General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) business unit. GDMS provides spaceborne communications, electronics, and mission systems, including satellite payloads, ground systems, and engineering services for government and commercial customers like NASA and the U.S. Navy. They develop technology for satellite communication, tracking, telemetry, and control, and have contributed to missions like Apollo, Artemis, and the International Space Station. Key words associated with General Dynamics in space are: satellite communications, ground systems, mission operations, space exploration, and national security.
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General Dynamics Mission Systems, collaborating with Iridium Communications, KSAT, and Raytheon Technologies, will develop and maintain two primary operations centers at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, and Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
General Dynamics produced a concept called the Manned Astronomical Research Station (MARS) for the MTSS.
Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics, and Omni Federal each won $9,700,000 contracts from the U.S. Space Force to develop competing designs of next-generation ground systems.
General Dynamics Mission Systems received a contract last year to operate the ground systems of the Department of Defense’s future low Earth orbit constellation being acquired by the Space Development Agency.
David Bowne has served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development for ND Satcom and Vice President of North American Sales for General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies.
GA-ASI employed a General Dynamics EMC2 to run the autonomy architecture, which is a high-performance Multi-Function Processor with multi-level security.
The Space Development Agency awarded a $324,500,000 contract to a team led by General Dynamics Mission Systems, alongside Iridium Communications, KSAT, Emergent, and Raytheon Technologies, to build and operate its ground control centers.
General Dynamics Information Technology’s Intelligence & Homeland Security Division was awarded two contracts valued at $580,000,000 in April.
General Dynamics Information Technology was awarded the $4,500,000,000 User Facing and Data Center Services contract in March 2022 to support the geospatial intelligence mission.
General Dynamics Mission Systems offers the Multi-Mode Standard Transponder (MST-200), an S-Band transponder for the satellite market.
General Dynamics Mission Systems (NYSE: GD) and Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) were awarded a $324,516,613 contract by the Space Development Agency to establish the ground Operations and Integration segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture.
The General Dynamics Mission Systems–Iridium team will develop, equip, staff, operate, and maintain commercial-like operations centers for the Space Development Agency.
General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $324.5 million, seven-year contract to operate the ground systems and manage network operations of the Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation.
The Space Development Agency procures its satellites under fixed-price contracts while using a cost-plus approach for the O&I agreement with General Dynamics Mission Systems.
Iridium and General Dynamics Mission Systems submitted a proposal to develop system integration, ground systems, facilities, ground stations, and day-to-day network operations for the Space Development Agency’s proliferated LEO constellation.
General Dynamics Mission Systems delivered the 1,000th Tri-band radome to Boeing for line-fit installation on commercial and military aircraft.
Over more than 75 years, General Dynamics Mission Systems has designed, produced, and tested more than 65,000 radomes for more than 50 different types of military and commercial aircraft.
General Dynamics Mission Systems has produced more than 2,000 SATCOM radomes currently installed on large commercial aircraft, regional jets, and business jets.
General Dynamics Mission Systems has produced the Boeing Tri-band radome since 2016.
Leidos withdrew its protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2022-03-16, allowing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and General Dynamics Information Technology to proceed with the work.