General Dynamics CFO Hugh Redd To Retire; Jason Aiken Named Successor

(RTTNews) - General Dynamics Corp. (GD) said Monday that its board of directors has elected Jason Aiken to be senior vice president and chief financial officer of the company, effective January 1, 2014, to succeed L. Hugh Redd II, who has informed the company of his intention to retire.

Aiken is the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., a subsidiary of General Dynamics.

Aiken, 41, has been senior vice president and CFO of Gulfstream since September 2011. Previously, as vice president and controller of General Dynamics, he was responsible for the company's accounting, financial reporting, government finance and corporate financial systems. He also had been staff vice president of accounting, responsible for financial accounting and reporting functions.

Aiken joined General Dynamics in June 2002 as director of consolidation accounting.