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LONG BEACH, Calif., March 26, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today celebrated the 'major join' of Qatar's first C-17 Globemaster III advanced airlifter in a ceremony at the company's C-17 final...

ST. LOUIS, March 25, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today recognized a milestone for its KC-10 Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) program: The program has provided aircraft maintenance more...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 24, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will spotlight its satellite programs, missile defense systems, human spaceflight programs, operationally responsive space...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 24, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has successfully demonstrated its Re-Deployable High-Energy Laser System (RHELS) by quickly relocating the prototype weapon system from its...

BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia, March 23, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has demonstrated for the first time the ability to deliver streaming video over a mobile, ad hoc tactical network from an...

MACON, Ga., March 23, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Global Mobility Systems facility in Macon, Ga., has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., March 19, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] delivered the first two engineering development models (EDM) of the Joint Tactical Radio System Ground Mobile Radios (JTRS GMR) to the...

SEATTLE, March 19, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] last week completed loads calibration testing of the first P-8A Poseidon test aircraft two weeks ahead of schedule. Loads calibration is one of the...

ST. LOUIS, March 18, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today named Greg Hyslop as the vice president and general manager of the company's Missile Defense Systems division. Hyslop succeeds...

COPENHAGEN, March 18, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Terma A/S today signed a Memorandum of Agreement that aims to provide Terma a minimum of 30 percent of the industrial-cooperation...

ST. LOUIS, March 17, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today in St. Louis unveiled the F-15 Silent Eagle (F-15SE), a new F-15 configuration designed to meet the future needs of international...

SAN ANTONIO, March 16, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] successfully completed the first test flight of the U.S. Air Force's third C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) aircraft on Jan....

LONG BEACH, Calif., March 13, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today marked a key milestone at its C-17 final assembly facility in Long Beach -- the "major join" ceremony for the Strategic Airlift...

ST. LOUIS, March 13, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Science Applications International Corp. [NYSE: SAI], together the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS)...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 12, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT) have launched a joint...

ST. LOUIS, March 11, 2009 -- The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Infrared Search and Track (IRST) program has successfully completed a series of risk-reduction flight tests that demonstrated the...

SEATTLE, March 10, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has delivered an operational flight trainer (OFT) to Australia for the Project Wedgetail airborne early warning and control (AEW&C)...

ST. LOUIS, March 10, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that it will promote the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet as the next-generation fighter for the Hellenic Republic (Greece). "We are pleased to...

AVALON AIRPORT, Victoria, Australia, March 10, 2009 -- Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], has achieved a significant milestone toward delivery of...

TITUSVILLE, Fla., March 09, 2009 -- Space Shuttle Discovery is preparing to deliver the Starboard 6 (S6) truss segment built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] -- along with the segment's solar array wings and...

ST. LOUIS, March 08, 2009 -- The outer skin of the first Boeing [NYSE: BA] F/A-18F Super Hornet for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is fitted to its forward fuselage on a pulse assembly line...

WICHITA, Kan., March 06, 2009 -- We are disappointed members of the union representing Boeing Wichita engineers, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), voted to...

AVALON AIRPORT, Victoria, Australia, March 05, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will showcase an array of leading-edge technology, products, services and capabilities at the 2009 Australian...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., March 04, 2009 -- The Boeing [NYSE: BA] demonstration picosatellite CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) today surpassed 10,000 Earth orbits since its launch on April 17, 2007....

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 04, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA announced today that the second of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has shipped from...

SINGAPORE, March 02, 2009 -- ScanEagle, a long-endurance, fully autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and subsidiary Insitu, today successfully...

WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 27, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] on Feb. 25 transferred the third KC-767J tanker to the company's Japanese partner, Itochu Corp., for delivery to the Japan Ministry of...

HOUSTON, Feb. 27, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its Space Exploration division, submitted a proposal to NASA today for Altair lunar lander design support. NASA is expected to...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Science Applications International Corp. [NYSE: SAI], together the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS)...

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa., Feb. 26, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced delivery of the first CH-47F Chinook manufactured under a five-year U.S. Army contract awarded in August 2008. The...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Feb. 26, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its Space Exploration division and Checkout, Assembly and Payload Processing Services (CAPPS) program, on Feb....

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Feb. 25, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has delivered the first Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) Engineering Development Model (EDM) to...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24, 2009 – The Boeing Company is pleased that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced its intent to acquire the C-17 Globemaster III, the world's most advanced...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] will demonstrate the Vigilare integrated air battle management command-and-control (C2) system Feb. 22-26 at the International Defence Exhibition and...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 18, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Space Exploration division has submitted proposals to NASA for the Ares V Phase 1 Design Support...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 18, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced the successful completion of a project that is expected to save approximately 870,000 gallons of water annually -- enough to...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18, 2009 -- The Boeing [NYSE: BA] Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) weapon system scored a direct hit against a remote-controlled, land-based moving target...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 17, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has delivered the first Legacy Communications payload and the first digital channelizer to Lockheed Martin in support of the U.S....

SEATTLE, Feb. 16, 2009 -- U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, greets employees while on a tour of 767 Final Assembly at the Boeing [NYSE: BA]...

NEW DELHI, Feb. 11, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Bharat Electronics Limited, one of India's leading defense companies, will jointly develop an analysis and experimentation center in India to...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] delivered its first EA-18G Growler maintenance trainer to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Wash., on Nov. 21 -- two weeks ahead of an...

HEATH, Ohio, Feb. 10, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has delivered the final upgraded missile guidance set (MGS) for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 05, 2009 -- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded an industry team led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] a four-year contract worth $49 million to continue developing...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 05, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] received a $28.3 million contract on Jan. 21 for two Virtual Mission Training System (VMTS) retrofit kits that will integrate low-cost,...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 05, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed initial satellite testing and has demonstrated end-to-end mission functionality of the ground and...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 04, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a one-year, $250 million Missile Defense Agency (MDA) contract for Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) maintenance and operations...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 04, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force to participate as an associate prime contractor in the projected $1.6 billion A-10...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 04, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has shipped the second in a series of new, high-capacity military communications satellites to Cape Canaveral Air...

LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 03, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today said it has received a $45 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade avionics software on the B-1 long-range...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 03, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Navy on Feb. 2 delivered a proposal to the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) offering the advanced, multirole F/A-18E/F Super Hornet as part of...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Feb. 02, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced its first contract award under the U.S. Air Force Future Flexible Acquisition and Sustainment Tool (F2AST)...

SEATTLE, Feb. 02, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has conducted successful functional check flights of two 737-700 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft modified in Australia...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced it has received the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation's Omnibus Contract II...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it will assist in the development of the U.S. Air Force F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) program as part of a team led by L-3...

AMARILLO, TEXAS, Jan. 27, 2009 -- The Bell Boeing Program Office has announced that it was awarded Phase I of a two-phase Joint Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract from Naval Air Systems...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 27, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received a $75 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force to continue risk reduction and system definition for the...

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, Jan. 27, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] generates approximately US$1 billion in business annually in Canada, but significant opportunities remain for Canadian...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 26, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully demonstrated that a laser system mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle can shoot down a small unmanned aerial...

OTTAWA, Jan. 22, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed its Industrial and Regional Benefits program for Phase 1 of the CF-18 Fighter Avionics Modernization Program for...

CHICAGO, Jan. 21, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced the launch of its Boeing in Canada Web site (www.boeing.ca). The Web site allows the public to access up-to-date information...

The Boeing Company today announced that the U.S. Air Force has authorized the Commonwealth of Australia's provision of US$234 million for...

SEATTLE, Jan. 15, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced it has completed the first aerial refuelings of a 737 platform. The historic flights were conducted for Project Wedgetail,...

WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 14, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today delivered its best and final offer (BAFO) to 700 Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace-Wichita Engineering...

Boeing on Monday received a $1.1 billion contract for C-17 Globemaster III total systems support from the U.S. Department of Defense. The award is part...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Jan. 12, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed the systemwide Critical Design Review (CDR) for its Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 09, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that its Integrated Defense Systems Training Systems and Services organization has completed a six-year U.S. Army contract to retrofit...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 07, 2009 -- The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS), a joint effort of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Insitu Inc., this week completed its 1,500th shipboard sortie in...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 07, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received two contracts totaling $217.1 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for continued production of Joint Direct Attack...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 07, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has successfully reconfigured an on-orbit U.S. Navy satellite, adding 30 percent more communications capability. The satellite, the 11th in...

LONDON, Jan. 06, 2009 -- Today Boeing Defence UK Ltd., a subsidiary of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], announced the establishment of a new operation to focus on Boeing's rotorcraft support...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 06, 2009 -- The Government of India has selected The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] to provide eight P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft to the...

The Boeing Company , through its commercial launch business, has received a contract to launch the fourth satellite for the COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has completed its acquisition of Digital Receiver Technology Inc. (DRT), a Germantown, Md.-based company that develops wireless...

VICTORVILLE, Calif., Dec. 18, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its A160 Turbine (A160T) Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft has achieved two key milestones: using its two-speed...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18, 2008 -- Significant milestones in major network systems programs -- like the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS), the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system and the SBInet

WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 17, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force to provide contractor logistics support services for the T-1A Jayhawk training aircraft...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 17, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Space and Intelligence Systems facilities in El Segundo, Seal Beach and Sylmar, Calif., have received International...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] began final assembly operations Dec. 9 in St. Louis on the first of 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The Super...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Air Force held a ceremony Dec. 5 to mark delivery of the new C-17 Aircrew Training System (ATS) to Dover Air Force Base...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] is supporting the development of educational programs at two leading U.S. universities that offer courses in modeling and simulation (M&S)...

The Boeing Company , through its work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program, contributed more than $193 million to Arizona's economy in...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 09, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Rotorcraft Systems facility in Philadelphia has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Dec. 05, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], working with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, today completed the successful intercept of...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 04, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its St. Louis site has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 certification, a global benchmark of an...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 03, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced a teaming arrangement with Creative Technologies Inc. (CTI) of Hollywood, Calif., to explore new training solutions for...

SEATTLE, Dec. 03, 2008 -- A team led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] has completed a major mission-system upgrade for the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet under the $1.32 billion...

OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 01, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received a $3.7 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corp. to evaluate enhancements to communications security and replacements...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Dec. 01, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency last week fired a high-energy laser through the Airborne...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has built on the success of Project Alpine, last year's Integrated-Live, Virtual and Constructive (I-LVC) training proof-of-concept demonstration,...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM ER) weapon system successfully completed testing with the Royal Australian...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that the Royal Netherlands Navy has successfully test-launched two Boeing Harpoon missiles from air defense and command frigate (LCF) HMS

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that the NATO Airlift Management Agency (NAMA) general manager, on behalf of the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) nations, has...

MESA, Ariz., Nov. 21, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Rotorcraft Systems facility in Mesa has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 certification,...

SYLMAR, Calif., Nov. 20, 2008 -- Spectrolab Inc., a wholly owned Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary, this week received the 2008 SpotBeam Award for Space Innovation from the California Space Authority...

WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 19, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced plans to cut approximately 800 positions at its Integrated Defense Systems facility in Wichita during 2009. Boeing...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Nov. 19, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office, Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) have demonstrated how...

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 19, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] announced today that it has successfully completed Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) upgrades on C-130 aircraft AMP 3 (H3). The...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Nov. 18, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Checkout, Assembly and Payload Processing Services (CAPPS) program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center has earned...

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa., Nov. 18, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that its CH-47F Chinook helicopter has been fielded by Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 17, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that it will add improved capabilities to its technology for the U.S. Air Force's Operational Control Segment (OCS) satellite...