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General Dynamics UK Wins Three Major Vehicle Integration Projects

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Friday, June 25th, 2010

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General Dynamics [GD] UK has won three major vehicle integration contracts worth approximately $10 million, the company said in Paris recently. In the space of 10 weeks, General Dynamics UK's Platform Services division was selected by the U.K. Ministry of Defence to apply its market-leading Electronic Systems Integration capability onto R-WMIK; by NP Aerospace to install the Bowman Enhanced Communications Suite on the Mastiff II Enhanced Communications Vehicle (ECV); and delivered the first IVECO-based Self Loading Dump Truck with integrated…

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