General Dynamics Corporation

LACMA executives to move to high-rise across street

2013-05-09 05:00:00

The top brass of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will have a lofty view of the much-touted $650-million makeover of the museum's Wilshire Boulevard campus after they move across the street to a new perch in a high-rise office tower. Executive...

Pomona defense plant site is getting new manufacturers

2013-05-09 06:10:00

The maker of Con-Tact adhesive paper shelf liners, Little Twig baby bath products and other household items will move to a manufacturing and warehouse building being built on the site of a defunct defense industry plant in Pomona. Kittrich Corp. —...

General Dynamics Q1 profits up, sales down

2013-04-25 04:14:02

General Dynamics Corp., maker of tanks, ships and Gulfstream business jets, reported slightly higher first quarter earnings from a year ago, although projected sales fell short of expectations. The company had net earnings of $571 million for the...

The day ahead in business April 24

2013-04-24 03:30:00

Reports: MBA mortgage index for week ended April 20, 6 a.m.; Durable goods orders for March, 7:30 a.m.; Crude inventories for week ended April 20, 9:30 a.m. Local earnings: Boeing Co., First Midwest Bancorp Inc., Horace Mann Educators Corp., Morningstar...

Finance Authority of Maine announces plans that will create or protect 171 Maine jobs

2013-04-23 11:14:02

The Finance Authority of Maine announced Tuesday that it has agreed to help finance the expansion of three Maine businesses, which will create or maintain 171 jobs. According to an announcement from FAME, the organization's board of directors last...

Spirit Aerosystems shares drop 30 percent

2012-10-25 17:28:00

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. on Thursday warned of sizeable cost overruns on parts it supplies to major aircraft makers, sending its stock tumbling more than 30 percent. The Wichita, Kansas-based company, which makes structures for wings, fuselages...

Coast Guard grows its own tradespeople at repair yard

2012-07-20 13:06:00

Since 1899, the Coast Guard's shipyard at Curtis Bay has added years to the life of the sea-battered fleet, repairing and upgrading hundreds of cutters before sending them back on patrol. So in 2002 when shipyard officials looked at the future and saw...

SBA regional director finds comfort in finance

2012-04-02 00:00:00

Marianne Markowitz strolls through a hallway at the regional headquarters of the U.S. Small Business Administration in the Loop, not pausing to glance at the two official portraits, one of President Barack Obama, that are the only decor on a yawning...

Reuters: Hawker Beechcraft readies bankruptcy filing

2012-03-28 15:12:00

Hawker Beechcraft Inc, the aircraft manufacturer owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc's private equity arm and Onex Corp, is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection, according to people familiar with the matter. Hawker, which was bought in 2007 for $3....

General Dynamics warns of Aberdeen closure, layoffs

2011-06-13 14:59:24

Defense contractor General Dynamics Corp. is warning state regulators that it will close an Aberdeen office over the summer and lay off 52 employees. The state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation said it was notified by the company that the...

Lockheed, other defense contractors reportedly hacked

2011-05-27 15:05:00

Sydney W. Porter Jr., radiation expert, dies

2011-05-05 13:52:27

Sydney Wynne "Syd" Porter Jr., a noted physicist and radiation expert who was called to Three Mile Island, Pa., in 1979 after an accident destroyed a reactor in what proved to be the nation's worst nuclear incident, died April 23 of lymphoma at a...

Stephen M. DuBrul Jr. died just over a week after his wife, the celebrated abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler. They lived on an estate on Contentment Island Road in Darien, pictured, that is for sale for $6.9 million, according to Zillow.com.

2013-05-12 05:23:00

F-16 Falcon Speed: 1,500 mph Weight: 37,500 pounds Range: 2,000 miles Manufacturer: General Dynamics Corp. Background: Multi role fighter. Armed with a 20mm multi barrel cannon with 500 rounds and in fra red missiles. Type of plane flown by Thunderbirds.

2001-05-03 00:00:00