GDIT might lay off 236 in NoVa

General Dynamics Information Technology, the Falls Church-based IT services business unit of Reston-based Fortune 100 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics, might lay off 236 employees across two Northern Virginia locations, depending on the fate of two contracts.

GDIT filed two notices with the state Monday to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The federal contractor said it might lay off 133 employees at its office at 3170 Fairview Park Drive in Falls Church if it doesn’t receive an award or extension on a contract in the recompete process. The affected employees would be laid off on July 28.

The company also will lay off 103 employees located at 1401 S. Clark St. in Arlington County, an office building, if it doesn’t receive an extension on its F-35 Joint Program Office contract. The current contract ends July 31, according to the notice, and the affected employees would be cut that day.

“We are hopeful for an extension,” a GDIT employee wrote in the notice.

GDIT won a Joint Strike Fighter F-35 IT program support contract with a ceiling value of $155.6 million, it announced in 2019. The contract had a base period of two years and three one-year options.

A GDIT spokesperson wrote in a statement: “We issue WARN notifications to ensure full compliance with the WARN Act. We act with an abundance of caution whenever there is any uncertainty around funding, so we can remain fully transparent with our employees — this is core to who we are. Across the WARN notices issued in the last year, most did not conclude in a layoff separation from GDIT.

“This is both due to situations where funding was ultimately received,” the spokesperson continued, “and also to our strong focus on internal mobility, with over 4,000 employees on average changing roles each year and continuing to grow their careers while supporting a wide range of customer missions.”

General Dynamics employs more than 110,000 people worldwide and reported $52.6 billion in 2025 revenue. It ranked No. 91 on the 2026 Fortune 500. The company’s Technologies unit, which includes GDIT and the Mission Systems subsidiary, reported $13.5 billion in 2025 revenue and nearly 40,000 employees.