Defense contractor's Dayton-area operation lands new work on $20.5M Navy deal

A growing defense firm located in the Dayton area has landed new work on a U.S. Navy contract. General Atomics, a California-based corporation with a location in Beavercreek, won a $20.5 million firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract. The modification exercises options to procure 18 Advanced Arresting Gear Water Twister (WT) Mod-II shipsets for Navy Gerald R. Ford-class Aircraft Carriers 78, 79 and 80. Additionally, this modification provides for the development of logistics…