General Dynamics Awarded $267 Million Contract for Egyptian M1A1
Co-production Program
(Source: General Dynamics Land Systems; issued Dec. 20, 2004)
[With thanks to www.defense-aerospace.com ]

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. --- The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments
Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of
General Dynamics, a $267 million modification to a previously awarded
contract to produce 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits for the Egyptian tank
co-production program.

Deliveries begin in 2005 and will continue through 2008.

In December 2003 the U.S. Army awarded General Dynamics an $8.4 million
long-lead material contract to begin work on this increment, which increases
the number of Egyptian co-production-built M1A1 tanks to 880 since the
program's inception in 1992.

General Dynamics provides components for kits used in Egyptian M1A1
production.

Work will be performed in Lima, Ohio, Scranton, Pa., Muskegon, Mich.,
Tallahassee, Fla., Anniston, Ala., and Imperial Valley, Calif., by existing
General Dynamics Land Systems employees.

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs
approximately 71,600 people worldwide and anticipates 2004 revenue in excess
of $19 billion. The company is a market leader in mission-critical
information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems,
armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business
aviation.

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