EX-24.1 5 d264440dex241.htm EXHIBIT 24.1 Exhibit 24.1

Exhibit 24.1

GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION

IRS No. 13-1673581

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 JAY L. JOHNSON, L. HUGH REDD and GREGORY S. GALLOPOULOS as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any Registration Statement on Form S-3, and any and all amendments thereto (including, without limitation, any post-effective amendments thereto), for the registration of certain securities of General Dynamics Corporation under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 the undersigned might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact and agent or substitute or substitutes therefor 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 October, 2011.

 

/s/ Mary T. Barra       /s/ George A. Joulwan
Mary T. Barra     George A. Joulwan
/s/ Nicholas D. Chabraja       /s/ Paul G. Kaminski
Nicholas D. Chabraja     Paul G. Kaminski
/s/ James S. Crown       /s/ John M. Keane
James S. Crown     John M. Keane
/s/ William P. Fricks       /s/ Lester L. Lyles

William P. Fricks

    Lester L. Lyles
/s/ Jay L. Johnson       /s/ William A. Osborn
Jay L. Johnson     William A. Osborn
/s/ James L. Jones       /s/ Robert Walmsley
James L. Jones     Robert Walmsley