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General Dynamics Corporation (GD)
Defense with one segment headcount stated. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-01-30. Ranked 4 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
A defense contractor whose filing states the headcount of its technology segment only, so that share comes from a stated count and the shipbuilding, aerospace and combat systems shares follow segment revenue.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 37% at the end of 2027, 46% at the end of 2028, 50% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 50% desk work, 16% people work and 34% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
117,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). No U.S. share is stated; 45% of revenue is from the United States and most of the work is for the U.S. government.
The filing: “Our company is a global community of approximately 117,000 employees dedicated to our Ethos of transparency, trust, honesty and alignment.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 34% | By (a): the filing states that the Technologies segment's workforce comprises approximately 40,000 employees, including technologists, engineers, mission experts and cleared personnel, 34% of the total, information technology services for government. |
| Ship and Boat Building | 28% | By (c): the Marine Systems segment, 32% of revenue, builds submarines and ships, and the 77,000 outside the Technologies segment are split by segment revenue. |
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 22% | By (c): the Aerospace segment, 25% of revenue, makes business jets, and takes its share of the 77,000 by segment revenue. |
| Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing | 16% | By (c): the Combat Systems segment, 18% of revenue, makes armored vehicles and weapons systems, military vehicle manufacturing, and takes its share of the 77,000 by segment revenue. |
What the filing says about the workforce: In 2026 the company expects to negotiate 25 collective bargaining agreements covering approximately 9,300 employees; the total share represented is not stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computer Systems Design and Related Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Accenture (ACN, 779,000 employees)30% now, 66% by 2028
- Cognizant (CTSH, 351,600 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- IBM (IBM, 264,300 employees)23% now, 67% by 2028
- DXC Technology Company (DXC, 115,000 employees)26% now, 68% by 2028
- Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD, 72,000 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
- EPAM Systems, Inc. (EPAM, 62,850 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes AI and machine learning among its technology segment's offerings to the federal government and names programs where it uses them to improve decision making, modernize networks and detect fraud in data.
- “Operating thousands of complex digital modernization programs across the federal government, GDIT's expansive portfolio includes cloud services, cybersecurity, network modernization, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), application development, high-performance computing, and 5G and advanced communications.”
- “We are utilizing AI/ML technologies to improve decision making, transition CENTCOM to a new cloud environment, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of its networks.”
- “In modernizing the HIGLAS system, GDIT is leveraging its AI/ML capabilities to analyze trends and patterns to determine potential anomalies in the data and detect fraud, waste and abuse.”
- “Several significant contract awards in the Technologies segment leverage the Digital Accelerator portfolio of solutions in cyber, AI, cloud services and digital modernization. 43 The following represents the Technologies segment's total estimated contract value by customer on December 31, 2025: LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES We place a strong emphasis on cash flow generation, which is underpin...”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 117,000 | 2026-01-30 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 117,000 | 2025-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 111,600 | 2024-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 106,500 | 2023-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 103,100 | 2022-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 100,000 | 2021-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 102,900 | 2020-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 105,600 | 2019-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 98,600 | 2018-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 98,800 | 2017-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 99,900 | 2016-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 99,500 | 2015-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 96,000 | 2014-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 92,200 | 2013-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 95,100 | 2012-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 90,000 | 2011-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 91,700 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 92,300 | 2009-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 83,500 | 2008-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 81,000 | 2007-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 72,200 | 2006-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 70,200 | 2005-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 67,600 | 2004-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 54,000 | 2003-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 51,700 | 2002-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 43,300 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 43,400 | 2000-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 31,000 | 1999-03-18 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 29,000 | 1998-03-18 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 23,100 | 1997-03-21 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 27,700 | 1996-03-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 24,200 | 1995-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 30,500 | 1994-03-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Only the Technologies segment's headcount is stated; the other three segments are split by revenue (c).
- No U.S. share is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000040533-26-000006, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of General Dynamics Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 46% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce General Dynamics Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does General Dynamics Corporation employ?
- 117,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up General Dynamics Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Computer Systems Design and Related Services; by those patterns the work is about 50% desk work, 16% people work and 34% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does General Dynamics Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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