Our Mission
Making Mission Critical Systems Smarter
Our customers move fast and their objectives change even faster, so our talented employees are constantly focused on engineering technology that enables Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guard, Airmen, Intelligence Analysts and First Responders to focus on what matters most … the mission.
Our Mission & Vision
Our MISSION is to provide smarter mission critical systems and products to defense, civil government, intelligence and cybersecurity customers.
Our VISION is a safer world through smarter platforms and missions.
Our Ethos
General Dynamics’ ethos is our distinguishing moral nature. It informs everything we do.
Our employees are a community of people dedicated to this ethos.
Each of us has an obligation to behave according to our values.
In that way, we can ensure that we continue to be good stewards of the investments in us by our shareholders, customers, employees and communities, now and in the future.
Our ethos is rooted in five values: Honesty, Trust, Humanity, Alignment and Value Creation.
Customer Focus
Our customers are our priority. With them in mind, we believe that every piece of technology we create should be easy to operate and allow users to work more effectively.
Our Human Centered approach to User Experience (UX) allows us to make this a reality by taming the complexities of technology to create a more intuitive experience for users.
Excellence
We relentlessly pursue excellence by innovating, improving our processes and reducing waste. We believe in being wise stewards of capital and resources.
Our employees are encouraged to think differently and bring new ideas to the table on improving our operations. As a leading provider of mission-critical systems, we demonstrate our commitment to excellence by delivering high quality, highly reliable products and systems to our customers.
Continuous Improvement
There is a deeply embedded culture of continuous improvement at General Dynamics. It’s in everything we do. This culture enforces a shared commitment to drive consistently toward the future and to embrace change.
Our focus on continuous improvement is infectious. It’s a priority at all levels of our company, with every employee engaged in finding new ways to do things faster, better and more cost-effectively, and to push the boundaries of our potential.