Ontario -- The Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada a $27.2 million contract modification for spare parts in support of RG-31 Mk5E vehicles under the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) program.

General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company's parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics.

These parts will be used to support vehicles that were manufactured under a delivery order awarded to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada in July 2008 for 773 RG-31 Mk5E vehicles for the MRAP program. In total, 1,397 General Dynamics RG-31 vehicles have been ordered under the MRAP program.

Both contracts were signed through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Agency of the Canadian Government.

General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, located in London, Ontario, Canada is a business unit of General Dynamics Land Systems of Sterling Heights, Michigan. For over 30 years, more than 1900 highly skilled technical employees have designed, manufactured, delivered and supported to global customers a unique family of light armoured vehicles (LAV).

General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs approximately 92,300 people worldwide. The company is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and information systems and technologies.

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13.02.2009