General Dynamics adds jobs in St. Petersburg

Staff Tampa Bay Business Journal

General Dynamics, a leading weapons maker, is adding employees to its St. Petersburg operation.

The company said it would close a technical products and armament division in Charlotte, N.C. by the end of the year and transfer some of the 90 employees that work there to St. Petersburg. The company will also hire employees locally, the Tampa Bay Times said.

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), headquartered in Falls Church, Va., already employs 170 people at a facility off of Roosevelt Blvd. The company manufacturers mortar weapons, artillery projectiles, bomb bodies and propellants. The employees set to move here from Charlotte work on ?vehicle survivability systems? for the U.S. military and its allies. They also build suspension systems for large and heavy vehicles, the Times said.

Mike Meidel, director of Pinellas County Economic Development, credited regional assets such as training programs, grants and an annual defense and technology show for tipping the scales in favor of St. Petersburg to land the jobs. ?I've got to think that the general support for the defense industry here gave us a little edge over Charlotte,? Meidel told the Times.

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