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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: BRADY, CHRIS
PRESIDENT, GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, CHANTILLY
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: BRADY, CHRIS
PRESIDENT, GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, CHANTILLY
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Brady has led General Dynamics Missions Systems, a business unit of the Reston-based Fortune 100 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics, since 2019, after serving as vice president of engineering. He oversees more than 12,000 workers across more than 75 facilities worldwide.
GDMS manufactures and integrates intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, communications systems and platform systems and sensors for military, government and commercial customers.
In December 2024, the U.S. Navy awarded the business unit a contract valued up to $808 million to produce MK 54 Lightweight Torpedo kits. In September 2024, the Space Development Agency awarded a GDMS and Iridium team a nearly $492 million contract modification for satellite ground systems, bringing the total contract value up to nearly $888 million.
Brady has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona; a master’s in engineering-economic systems from Stanford and an MBA from Arizona State. He was named to Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of top government contracting executives for the sixth consecutive year in 2025.
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