General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) is a U.S. defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest defense contractor in the world. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. The company has four main business segments: Marine Systems, Combat Systems, Information Systems and Technology, and Aerospace. The company's former Fort Worth Division manufactured the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the most-produced Western jet fighter, but that subsidiary was sold to Lockheed in 1993. GD reentered the airframe business in 1999 with their purchase of Gulfstream Aerospace.

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Campaign Finance

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Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's May 31, 2012 filing.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $1,402,721
    Total Spent:
    $1,284,713
    Cash on Hand:
    $382,432
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through 2011. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for General Dynamics Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$8,424,411 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q3, 2011

Lobbying On Behalf of General Dynamics

View all lobbying data for General Dynamics Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

10 Mentions
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "General Dynamics" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 27 SBA Small Business Size Standards: Professional, Scientific and Technical Services 2011
    • Toggle 5 OSHA Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH), Notices and Meetings for 2011 2011
    • Toggle 2 OFCCP Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination Obligations of Contractors and Subcontractors Regarding Protected Veterans 2011
    • Toggle 2 DOT Gulfstream International Group, Inc. and VPAA Co. - Transfer of Commuter Air Carrier Authority 2011
    • Toggle 1 FTC Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals 2011
    • Toggle 1 PHMSA Institute of Makers of Explosives - Petition for Rulemaking 2011
    • Toggle 1 FDA Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices; Public Workshop 2011
    • Toggle 1 FTC Requests for Early Termination of Waiting Period under Premerger Notification Rules 2011
    • Toggle 1 MMC Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals; Nominations 2011
    • Toggle 1 FTC Granting of Early Termination of Waiting Period Under Premerger Notification Rules 2011

Contractor Misconduct

1 Instances
Information

This information is collected by the Project On Government Oversight from press releases, court documents, news reports and other public records. It is not meant to be an exhaustive account of all instances of federal contractor misconduct.

More information on each instance, including primary source documents, is available on POGO's site by clicking on the instance description. More information on POGO's methodology is available here.

covers through POGO's March 3, 2012 release
Misconduct Type Hired By Incident Year Disposition Penalty
Intellectual Property None DataTern v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. (Patent Infringement) 2011 Settlement $0
View all contractor misconduct data for General Dynamics Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

Advisory Committees

3 people on 6 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "General Dynamics" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Defense 2 people on 5 committees
  • Toggle Department of Labor 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for General Dynamics