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General Dynamics Corp

A defense and aerospace giant that builds Gulfstream business jets, the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarines (at its Electric Boat yards), Abrams tanks and Stryker vehicles, plus cybersecurity and IT systems for the government. It grew out of the Electric Boat Company, founded in 1899 to bring inventor John Holland's submarine to the U.S. Navy, and took the name "General Dynamics" in 1952 when its boss decided "Electric Boat" no longer fit a company that had branched into aircraft and other industries. Its Gulfstream jets trace to a plane Grumman first flew in the late 1950s, a name with no connection to its parent.