Business news for Mon, 24 Dec 2007 & with words operations+unit. 2 news.

GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric Co., said Monday it will acquire the bulk of the Merrill Lynch Capital commercial finance operations, allowing Merrill to redeploy about $1.3 billion into other parts of its business.

General Dynamics of Falls Church said last week that it has agreed to provide six portable combat operations centers to upper-level Marine Corps commands under a $38 million modification of an existing contract.