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General Dynamics, trading as GD, delivers C4ISR solutions, space electronics, and satellite communication systems for military and intelligence customers through its Mission Systems division.
GDACTIVEGeneral Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company whose businesses span business aviation (Gulfstream), shipbuilding, land combat vehicles and munitions, and technology. Its Mission Systems business provides C4ISR systems and space ground infrastructure, including the ground operations and integration segment for Tranches 1 and 2 of the Space Development Agency's architecture.
General Dynamics Corporation is one of the top five U.S. defense contractors, operating across four business segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. Its Mission Systems division provides advanced space-related capabilities including satellite ground systems, signals intelligence processing, and secure communications for national security space programs. The company plays a critical role in the U.S. space architecture through its work on next-generation ground systems, space-based sensors, and command-and-control infrastructure for the U.S. Space Force and intelligence community.
Not ranked: No measurable space activity in our data (space-coded federal awards or subcontracts, space revenue in the company’s SEC annual report, an orbital launch, or a space-segment profile: for a defense company or a diversified aerospace group, a subsector naming space work, and for a diversified group a space line cited at $100M or more): scored, but not ranked as a space company.
5 of 6 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 77% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-20 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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No figure is given until the listing date is recorded. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
GD Mission Systems designs, builds and operates satellite ground systems, including NASA TDRS ground terminals, the Landsat Multi-satellite Operations Center and the SDA Tranche 1 ground segment (with Iridium).
Contracts, suppliers, launches and schedule for each program, every fact sourced:
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Estimated: around Fri, Oct 23, 2026 (not announced by the company) · period ending September 2026
Estimated from the company's own SEC filings: it reported the same period a year earlier on Fri, Oct 24, 2025. The company has not announced this date.
Results filed Wed, Jul 29, 2026, before the market opened · period ending June 2026
Share move: not captured (no closing quote was recorded for that session)
Compiled Oct 20, 2026 from 6 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from. Facts only: nothing here is a rating, a forecast or a recommendation.
Space federal awards
At least 17 awards, at least $1.30B obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Jun 17, 2010 to Sep 19, 2024; most from DoD (12 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026. Our search reached its page limit for this company, so these are its largest awards and every total here is a floor.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Sep 19, 2024
Latest space award
$12.3M from DoD
RING OF FIRE STAR EFFORT WITH GENERAL DYNAMICS
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Sep 19, 2024
SEC filings, last 12 months
153 filings
Including 4 periodic reports and 10 current reports
Source: SEC EDGAR company filings
Latest Oct 8, 2026
Satellites built
24 payloads launched, 10 in orbit
Latest: GeoEye-1
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation codes GDC, GDG. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Sep 6, 2008
Department of Defense
At least 12 space awards, $49.0M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 19, 2024
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
At least 5 space awards, $1.25B obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 11, 2024
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Owns 2 satellites it built (latest Fermi Gamma-ray Space Tel.)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jun 11, 2008
US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate)
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 20). General Dynamics: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-dynamics
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "General Dynamics: Company dossier." Data as of October 20, 2026. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-dynamics.
BibTeX
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title = {{General Dynamics}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
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url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-dynamics},
urldate = {2026-10-20},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-20; each fact links its primary source}
}Owns one satellite it built (latest C/NOFS)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Apr 16, 2008
USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program
Owns 3 satellites it built (latest STP-R1)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Sep 23, 2005
US Air Force Office of Aerospace Research
Owns 14 satellites it built (latest OV1-17)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Mar 18, 1969
US Air Force Space Systems Division
Owns one satellite it built (latest OV1-6S)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Nov 3, 1966
Director or officer change, or executive pay arrangement
8-K items: 5.02 Director or officer change, or executive pay arrangement · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Amendment: Active holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13D/A)
Amendment: Active holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13D/A) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Amendment: Active holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13D/A)
Amendment: Active holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13D/A) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Director or officer change, or executive pay arrangement
8-K items: 5.02 Director or officer change, or executive pay arrangement · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Other event the company chose to report
8-K items: 8.01 Other event the company chose to report · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Prospectus (424B5)
Sets the terms of a specific offering under a registration statement. A public-market offering, not a private funding round. Not counted in private funding totals.
Prospectus (424B5) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)