General Dynamics Information Technology’s Warfighter FOCUS contract is set to expire May 31, and the company plans to lay off 77 workers, according to a filing with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

Employees were notified on March 27.

GDIT expects to win a new Warfighter FOCUS contract, but provided notice pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, in case the company is not successful in its bid. If General Dynamics bid is not successful, the workers will be terminated on May 31.

Warfighter FOCUS, or Field Operations Customer Support, contracts support for U.S. Army organizations.

General Dynamics Corp. is an aerospace and defense multinational corporation based in Falls Church, Virginia. It is the world’s fifth-largest defense contractor based on 2012 revenues. The company ranked No. 99 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue

The notice to the state was filed pursuant to the WARN, which must be filed 60 days in advance of a plant closing that affects more than 50 employees in a 30-day period or a mass layoff of at least 500 employees or between 50 to 499 employees if they make up at least one-third of the employer’s workforce.

All North Carolina filings under the WARN Act can be found here.