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General Dynamics Concerned About Sustaining ‘Unique’ Tank Industrial Base

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Thursday, March 10th, 2011

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By Ann Roosevelt General Dynamics [GD] is concerned about a production break from about 2013 to 2015-16 between the current multi-year Abrams tank production and when modernization upgrades kick in--and the effect of that break on the industrial base, a company official said. "We consider the tank industrial base a unique national treasure," Mike Cannon, senior vice president of Ground Combat Systems, said in a recent interview. "We believe that we need to pay especially close attention to that base…

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