DAYTON, Ohio, April 26 -- The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems one of four indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts to provide capabilities integration services to its Aeronautical Systems Center Simulation and Analysis Facility. The contract has a ceiling value of $50 million over three years. Services to be provided include software development, event planning and execution, analysis and enterprise capabilities integration process support related to Air Force simulation activities. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).

Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by December 2008. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center, Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate.

"This services contract allows the General Dynamics team to help the Air Force's Simulation and Analysis Facility contribute to modernizing and sustaining the world's best aerospace systems," said Cindy Martin, program manager at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. "Our responsive, capable, best-of-breed team is ready to provide the tools and analyses the Air Force needs to increase mission effectiveness, accelerate acquisition timelines, mitigate program risk and reduce total operating costs of future weapon systems."

The Aeronautical Systems Center Simulation and Analysis Facility provides the Air Force with a real time, high-fidelity, human-in-the-loop synthetic battlespace to rapidly evaluate network-enabled warfighting capabilities, current and future weapon systems, strategies, concept of operations, tactics, emerging technologies and human-system interfaces.

The General Dynamics team includes the following teammates: L-3 Communications, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton, Gestalt LLC, Alion Science and Technology, Lighthouse Technologies Inc., Scientific Research Corp., Digital Research Analysis Corp., BearingPoint, Abacus Technology Corp., James Gregory Associates, CACI, Virtual Technology Corp., Cole Engineering Services Inc., Sytronics Inc., and SET Corp.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, headquartered in Arlington, Va., is a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, and computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Customers include those in the defense, intelligence, homeland Security and homeland defense communities. More information is available on the Internet at www.gd-ais.com.

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs approximately 72,200 people worldwide and had 2005 revenue of $21.2 billion. The company is a market leader in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation. More information can be found online at www.generaldynamics.com.