On March 25, 2021, General Dynamics Corporation filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against a shareholder proposal, asking the Company board to take the steps necessary to amend the appropriate Company governing documents to give the owners of a combined 10% of the Company outstanding common stock the power to call a special shareholder meeting, submitted by John Chevedden at the Company’s 2021 annual shareholders meeting scheduled to be held on May 5, 2021.