News Releases

ST. LOUIS, April 16, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Science Applications International Corp. [NYSE: SAI], together the Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS)...

EL SEGUNDO, April 15, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has shipped the IndoStar II/ProtoStar II satellite from the company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to the...

WEST HILLS, Calif., April 15, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract valued at up to $163 million, with an initial task order of $6.9 million, to develop the...

ST. LOUIS, April 14, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and teammate Creative Technologies Inc. (CTI) have given the U.S. Army the team's final report in support of the new Fires Center of Excellence at...

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa., April 13, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that a fourth U.S. Army unit has fielded the CH-47F Chinook helicopter. Company B, 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion...

ST. LOUIS, April 13, 2009 -- The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS), a joint effort of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and its subsidiary Insitu Inc., last week flew its 150,000th hour in...

ST. LOUIS, April 08, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] will showcase the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block II flight simulator and an array of company products, services and capabilities at the Latin America...

AARHUS, Denmark, April 07, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Danish systems integration and software development company Systematic have signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) that...

SEATTLE, April 06, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] on March 16 successfully demonstrated simultaneous command and control of three ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from a Royal Australian Air...

CAPE CANAVERAL, April 06, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the second of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites that the company is building for the U.S....

ARLINGTON, Va., March 31, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] received a task order today from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to deploy video cameras in the Detroit and Buffalo Border...

ST. LOUIS, March 31, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced an agreement with Times Aerospace Korea, LLC (TAK) to jointly develop a wing assembly for the 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack...

WICHITA, Kan., March 27, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Global Services & Support facility in Wichita has earned International Organization for Standardization...

ST. LOUIS, March 27, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] in February delivered its F-15E Suite 5 upgrade to the U.S. Air Force's F-15E Mission Training Centers (MTC) at Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB),...

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...