Employee Skills Training Grant Award

General Dynamics

Awarded: October 31, 2006

Location: Tallahassee
Target industry: Aerospace & Defense
Grant award: $240,000
Grant match: $240,000
Number of jobs to be created: 200

Business Summary:

General Dynamics Land Systems, headquartered in Sterling Heights, Michigan, has maintained a significant role in the Tallahassee community since it began operations in 1989. The company designs, manufactures and supports land and amphibious combat systems for the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and allied nations. Land Systems has a 65-year defense heritage providing high quality, technically superior, high-value products and services to the U.S. and its allies. The company’s Tallahassee operation is in an expansion mode resulting from increasing needs to upgrade components for the U.S. Army’s Abrams tank and the Bradley infantry vehicle electronics system.