General Dynamics

General Dynamics appears in roughly 6 monitored articles per day as of August 19, 2026. Mentions are up 115.4% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -0.04 — mildly negative.

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American industrial and technology company based in Reston, Virginia. It is primarily a developer and producer of advanced military equipment of a wide variety, such as nuclear submarines, main battle tanks, and armoured fighting vehicles. It is also the manufacturer of the civilian aviation Gulfstream business jets and a provider of information technology services. The company is the 3rd largest of the top 100 contractors of the U.S. federal government; it receives over 3% of total spending by the federal government of the United States on contractors.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
6
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+115.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-0.04
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

General Dynamics mentions per day: 51 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0May 29Jul 9Jul 18Jul 27Aug 5Aug 14Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

General Dynamics coverage tone: 51 days, latest tone -0.04 on 2026-08-19+20-2May 29Jul 9Jul 18Jul 27Aug 5Aug 14Aug 19

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for General Dynamics: 89 days, latest 977.00 on 2026-08-180.0010002000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).