GE Citizenship

Statement on Military Products

GE works with the U.S. government to provide engines for naval vessels and military aircraft, including fighters, tankers, helicopters, surveillance aircraft and bombers. GE also provides systems for these vessels and aircraft, including flight actuation systems; mission stores management systems/weapon integration systems; power distribution and conversion; distributed computing; information systems; aircraft structures; landing gear; flight control systems and propellers. These vessels and aircraft perform important national security, search-and-rescue and humanitarian missions. GE sells and supports these products for military applications with certain foreign governments in strict accordance with U.S. government policy, including U.S. export control law.

GE contracts for products with a military application include sales directly to the U.S. Department of Defense or a foreign military agency and sales indirectly to the U.S. Department of Defense and foreign militaries through another commercial entity (where GE is a subcontractor). GE’s sales of military products during calendar year 2008 were $4.4 billion.

GE is not involved in any way in land mine or cluster bomb production and does not make these devices, nor sell parts or components for use in production of these devices.

Data based on 2008 survey of GE businesses.