General Dynamics Land Systems Tallahassee Operations
General Dynamics Land Systems Tallahassee Operations
Sterling Heights, Mich. — General Dynamics Land Systems will formally open a 110 employee engineering center in Tallahassee to design radios and electronic components for tanks, artillery and other military vehicles on October 27, 1995.”This is another phase of our expansion in Tallahassee,” said Tom Bledsoe, Vice President Electronic Products. “The engineering center will help us achieve synergy between our radio and vehicle electronics elements, while enhancing our competitiveness as we continue to grow our electronics business.”General Dynamics will staff the center by combining 70 radio engineers from its plant in Tallahassee with 40 vehicle electronics engineers hired locally and transferred from Sterling Heights, Michigan. The radio engineers develop improvements to the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System in production at Tallahassee, and design future military communications systems. The vehicle electronics engineers will design electrical cables, circuit boards, and electrical subsystems for military combat vehicles, like the M1A2 tank built by General Dynamics in Lima, Ohio.The state-of-the-art facility, when complete in December 1995, will have computer workstations and laboratories that allow engineers to model, test and redesign parts in computer simulation. The center will be located in three buildings of the Park 20 West office complex which has 30,000 square feet of floor space, a portion of which is reserved for future expansion.Opening of the engineering center continues the expansion of General Dynamics Tallahassee Operations beyond the production of the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System begun in April 1989. The plant, which builds over 1,200 radios each month, delivered its 20,000 radio to the U.S. Army in August. In March 1995 General Dynamics announced a two year, 60 employee expansion of the plant to manufacture thirteen electronic units and crew displays for the M1A2 Abrams tank. When all expansions are complete in June 1996, General Dynamics will employ more than 450 workers in Tallahassee.The new engineering center is part of General Dynamics Land Systems’ plan for expansion in defense markets worldwide. The plan includes the consolidation of facilities, cost reduction initiatives, investment in computer simulation, and expansion beyond combat vehicle design and production into military electronics and command and control systems.General Dynamics Land Systems builds the M1A2 Abrams tank, the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System, and associated equipment for the U.S. military and its allies. It is a world leader in the development, production, integration and support of armor vehicles and military electronics systems. Land Systems is the only U.S. Army contractor currently providing combat vehicle integrated command, control and communications systems for armored combat vehicles.
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