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Issuer:     GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP (GD)
CIK:        0000040533
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-08T00:00:39+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-417188
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

General Dynamics elects President Danny Deep CEO effective Jan 1, 2027; Novakovic becomes Executive Chairman
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- Danny Deep, 56, currently president, elected CEO effective January 1, 2027; Phebe Novakovic, CEO since 2013, transitions to executive chairman.
- Deep has 25 years at General Dynamics: president since December 2025, board member since August 5, 2026, previously EVP Global Operations and EVP Combat Systems.
- Before that he was president of General Dynamics Land Systems from April 2020 to April 2024.
- Independent lead director Laura J. Schumacher said the board thanks Novakovic for setting strategic vision and building a leadership team; she remains with the company.
- General Dynamics employs more than 120,000 people and generated $52.6 billion in revenue in 2025.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40533/000119312526417188/0001193125-26-417188-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40533/000119312526417188/d122892d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-417188

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