The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $34 million contract modification to provide manufacturing technical assistance to Egypt for the co-production of the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank.

Under the Egyptian M1A1 Abrams Tank Co-production Program, General Dynamics provides components for kits used in production. The kits are shipped to Egypt and the tanks are then manufactured for the Egyptian Land Forces at the Egyptian tank production facility near Cairo.

This modification covers providing manufacturing technical assistance to the Egyptian facility in the areas of tank production, the freight forwarder management system, total package fielding, and support to Egyptian Land Forces' accepted/fielded tanks.

Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Mich., and Cairo, Egypt, by existing General Dynamics employees through August 2009.

Sergyi Way
15.08.2006

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