GM Defense

GM Defense is the military product subsidiary of General Motors, headquartered in Concord, North Carolina. It focuses on defense industry needs, with hydrogen fuel cell and other advanced mobility technologies. Its projects include SURUS, the Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure, an autonomous modular platform developed jointly with the United States Army, and the ZH2, a modified Chevrolet medium and full size pickup with a hydrogen fuel cell and electric drive that has a very low noise, smoke and thermal signature for silent watch missions. General Motors also works with the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory on fuel cell systems for unmanned undersea vehicles. The original GM Defense was founded in 1950 and acquired by General Dynamics in 2003; General Motors announced its return to the defense industry in 2017.