GeneralDynamics is one of the world's top ten defense contractors, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, founded in 1899 under the name of Electric Boat, changed to General Dynamics in 1952, and acquired Convair, Combat Systems, Motorola Integrated Systems, and so on. The company is now mainly divided into marine systems, weapons systems (production of tanks, armored vehicles, machine guns, etc.), information systems, aviation systems.