EXHIBIT 24.1

GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION
Commission File Number 333-
IRS No. 13-1673581 POWER OF
ATTORNEY
Filings with SEC

POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that each of the undersigned Directors of GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, hereby constitutes and appoints each of NICHOLAS D. CHABRAJA, MICHAEL J. MANCUSO and DAVID A. SAVNER as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8 of General Dynamics Corporation, and any amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), for the registration of shares of Common Stock to be issued under the General Dynamics Corporation Non-Employee Directors 1999 Stock Plan, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary as fully as to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands this 5th day of March, 2003.

/s/ Nicholas D. Chabraja		/s/ Paul G. Kaminski
Nicholas D. Chabraja		Paul G. Kaminski
/s/ James S. Crown		/s/ James R. Mellor
James S. Crown		James R. Mellor
/s/ Lester Crown		/s/ Carl E. Mundy, Jr.
Lester Crown		Carl E. Mundy, Jr.
/s/ Charles H. Goodman		/s/ Carlisle A. H. Trost
Charles H. Goodman		Carlisle A. H. Trost
	/s/ George A. Joulwan
	George A. Joulwan