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We have built a best-in-class supply chain across General Dynamics businesses that delivers on time, quality, cost, and technical performance requirements — all with an unwavering focus on our customers’ needs. Our business units work collaboratively to maintain strong performance and maximize value throughout the supply chain that consists of nearly 29,000 companies.
Our supply chain is strengthened through the General Dynamics Supply Chain Management Council (SCMC), a group of experts from across the corporation who regularly exchange ideas, share best practices, leverage resources, and develop common technologies and processes. The Council’s work ensures that the value created within our supply-chain organizations is fully realized across the enterprise.
How to Become a General Dynamics Supplier
Step 1
General Dynamics has ten separate business units under four operating groups, each with independent responsibility for sourcing its supply partners. Suppliers interested in working with General Dynamics can learn about individual business units and identify those that align best with their products or services.
Through our enterprise-wide Small Business Committee (SBC), representatives from each business unit collaborate to ensure we fully capture the value created by our supply chain and meet our customers’ expectations for valuable, cost-effective, and capable products and services. The SBC leverages shared resources, technologies, and processes and collectively pursues technology-driven opportunities that support the corporation’s objectives. This structure provides prospective suppliers with multiple pathways to engage across our business units, and we encourage you to explore partnerships with multiple business units.
Step 2
Connect with Target Business Units
Identify the General Dynamics operating groups and business units that best align with your company’s capabilities and contact the supply chain team at each.
Support for Small Business
For our U.S. businesses, program managers participate in more than 50 regional and national events each year to meet with potential suppliers. We provide guidance and support to the thousands of small businesses that work with us. We mentor suppliers throughout their contract involvement and sponsor events that bring our business units together with interested small business partners. These initiatives help small businesses expand their solution sets and broaden their marketing channels. We also host virtual training and outreach sessions to further support supplier engagement.