Neither. I was working for Government Systems Corp., the government contracting portion of GTE. Govt. Systems was purchased by General Dynamics, for about a billion dollars. On a curious side note, at the time of purchase, Govt. Systems actually had more employees than GD did. At the time, everyone thought that GTE sold Govt. Systems to finance the merger.
When GTE and Bell Atlantic merged to form Verizon, there were only the two in the new company. Any others came later.
Bell Atlantic had already merged with NYNEX.
I'm glad you left GTE in a graceful way. I feel sure GTE Govt. Sys. was a good fit w/ GD.