Reston, Va. – General Dynamics business units will participate in the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Global Maritime Exposition to showcase products and services that enable multi-domain operations for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and their coalition partners with solutions that meet customers’ core needs.
Media are invited to visit our innovative displays at the locations listed below.
WHEN: April 4-6, 2022 | Visit seaairspace.org for symposium hours and admissions information.
WHERE: Booth 1023, Main Exhibit Hall, Gaylord National Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland
SOLUTIONS DEMONSTRATED:
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
General Dynamics Electric Boat
General Dynamics Mission Systems
Tethered Unmanned Aerial Systems (T-UAS): Our Tethered Unmanned Aerial System is optimized for the unmanned maritime environment to safely extend line-of-sight data communications to ranges greater than 30 nautical miles. The U.S. Navy is invested in our baseline design through PMS 420’s Unmanned Multirotor Aerial Relay (UMAR) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract executed by our small business subcontractor and teammate, Dragonfly Pictures, Inc. (DPI). DPI successfully designed, developed, fabricated and demonstrated its UMAR prototype during several Navy sponsored test events.
Modernization & Sustainment: The General Dynamics Mission Systems Support and Sustainment team operates globally to provide high-quality, time-sensitive surface Navy support worldwide. The successful deliveries of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) platforms have paved the way for additional work on surface Navy programs. Currently, General Dynamics technicians are installing Over-the-Horizon Navy Strike Missiles on all Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships to increase lethality. These short-duration installs have been executed during scheduled ship availabilities (SRA/DSRA) or during pier-side windows of opportunities (WOO).
Knifefish: Knifefish is a medium-class surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) designed for deployment off the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and other vessels of opportunity. The SMCM UUV provides the fleet mine warfare commander enhanced mine hunting capability by detecting, classifying and identifying buried mines and mines in high clutter environments. Knifefish also gathers environmental data to provide intelligence support for other mine warfare systems. The Knifefish UUV is based on the General Dynamics Bluefin Robotics Bluefin-21 deep-water AUV.
ProtecD@R Multi-Platform (KG-204) Encryptor: The ProtecD@R Encryptor is the first data-at-rest encryptor certified by the NSA to support unattended operation and protect Top-Secret and below data. At 24Gb/s throughput, the encryptor has the horsepower for high-speed data storage but is small enough for desktop use or for embedment into larger storage systems.
Badger Software Defined Radio: The Badger is a compact, two-channel software-defined radio that provides multiple independent levels of security for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore voice and data communications. It is the only single radio available that provides high frequency (HF), very high frequency (VHF), ultra high frequency (UHF) and SATCOM Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform capability to significantly enhance beyond line-of-sight, or satellite voice and data communications by connecting to the MUOS satellite network.
Common Hardware Systems-5 (CHS-5): CHS-5 provides U.S. military customers rapid, affordable access to a wide range of commercial off-the-shelf computing and network equipment for tactical operations. General Dynamics provides technical assistance and logistics support for a wide range of services, from the rapid repair and replacement of equipment at strategically located Regional Support Centers, to the deployment of field service personnel to CHS-5 user locations worldwide. Available to all military services and across the federal government, the CHS-5 contract is a “one stop shop” for tactical IT hardware solutions, including a new basic purchase option to provide greater flexibility and lower costs.
Small Form Factor Command and Control (SFF C2): The SFF C2 node provides the Marine Corps with virtualized, platform agnostic, highly deployable C2 capabilities. The SFF C2 node integrates customer developed software architectures and proven enablers to scale to any mission need.
General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada
ASW Mission Support: Our full suite of Airborne Mission Management capabilities for fixed, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft or surface vessels simplify the complexities of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. General Dynamics’ advanced processing technology extends beyond any platform or data set and optimizes mission success with systems that support every step of the operation. From planning and tactical systems to post-mission analysis and mission reconstruction, to training and simulation, our solutions maximize flexibility, enhance speed of operations, and reduce life cycle costs with a common software core and truly open architecture.
General Dynamics NASSCO Shipbuilding
Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) Display: Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) is a six-ship class of highly flexible platforms that can be employed across a broad range of military operations. NASSCO has delivered three ESBs to date, with two currently under construction. The ships are optimized to support a wide variety of maritime missions, including airborne mine countermeasures, special operations and limited crisis response. ESBs are equipped with a four-spot flight deck and hangar capable of supporting H53, H60, V22 tilt-rotor and H1 aircraft operations as well as the launch and recovery of unmanned aerial systems. The mission deck supports a broad array of manned and unmanned surface and undersea platforms.
For more information about these solutions, to include requesting subject matter experts, contact our on-site media representatives:
- General Dynamics Mission Systems: Matthew Billingsley, 202-407-1141, matthew.billingsley@gd-ms.com
- General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada: Kristina Davis, 613-596-7677, kristina.davis@gd-ms.ca
- General Dynamics Bath Iron Works: Julie Rabinowitz, 207-607-0950, julie.rabinowitz@gdbiw.com
- General Dynamics NASSCO: Crystal Norman, 619-623-5308, crystal.norman@nassco.com
- General Dynamics Electric Boat: Sydney Davies, 860-433-1247, grose1@gdeb.com
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- General Dynamics Mission Systems: @GDMS and @GDMS_C
- General Dynamics Bath Iron Works: @GDBIW
- General Dynamics NASSCO: @GDNASSCO
- General Dynamics Electric Boat: @GDElectricBoat
General Dynamics Mission Systems, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, General Dynamics NASSCO and General Dynamics Electric Boat are business units of General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD). Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $37.9 billion in revenue in 2020. More information is available at www.gd.com.