Executive Vice President of the company and President, Gulfstream Aerospace · GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP (GD)

Mark Burns

A named executive officer of GENERAL DYNAMICS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$8,283,948

FY2024: $7,265,250

5th of 5 named executive officers at General Dynamics by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for GENERAL DYNAMICS, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 27, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Mark Burns compensation by year

GENERAL DYNAMICS Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as GENERAL DYNAMICS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$655,000$692,500$776,250$856,250$875,000$893,750$958,303
Bonus$0—$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,272,160$2,189,014$2,666,235$2,823,925$3,446,407$3,760,459$3,782,576
Option awards$1,272,817$899,953$1,049,894$1,200,397$1,424,875$1,485,482$1,575,562
Non-equity incentive$840,000$720,000$1,734,000$1,315,000$1,297,000$1,050,000$1,900,000
Pension and deferred compensation$267,984$94,110$0$0$0$0$0
All other$64,524$62,096$69,041$73,999$80,035$75,559$67,507
Total$4,372,485$4,657,673$6,295,420$6,269,571$7,123,317$7,265,250$8,283,948

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP DEF 14A filed March 27, 2026, accession 0001308179-26-000168, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP filed document, accession 0001308179-26-000168. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 27, 2026.

$4.4M
$4.7M
$6.3M
$6.3M
$7.1M
$7.3M
$8.3M
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU30,721$10,342,393—
RSU11,855$3,991,104—
Option15,005—$227.58
Option25,400—$257.55
Option24,590—$274.51

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

GENERAL DYNAMICS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Phebe NovakovicChairman and Chief Executive Officer$25,924,082
Jason AikenExecutive Vice President, Combat Systems and Mission Systems$9,747,163
Danny DeepPresident$8,394,711
Kimberly KuryeaSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$8,294,792
Mark Burns · this pageExecutive Vice President of the company and President, Gulfstream Aerospace$8,283,948

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