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ST. LOUIS, May 20, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] last week began using a moving assembly line for final assembly of the P-8A Poseidon in Renton, Wash. This military derivative of the...

ST. LOUIS, May 19, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Science Applications International Corp. [NYSE: SAI], the Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program,...

ST. LOUIS, May 19, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has fired a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft in ground tests for the first time, achieving a key milestone for the...

ST. LOUIS, May 16, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] held a grand opening for its new EA-18G Growler Support Center (GSC) at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., Tuesday in preparation for...

ST. LOUIS, May 16, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $5.2 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract to demonstrate the effectiveness of Guidance Integrated...

ST. LOUIS, May 15, 2008 -- The Boeing Company's [NYSE: BA] Rotorcraft Systems division in Philadelphia today resumed operations on the H-47 Chinook helicopter production line. All employees are...

ST. LOUIS, May 15, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has achieved six years of consecutive on-time deliveries for the Minuteman III missile program with the recent delivery of the 593rd missile guidance...

ST. LOUIS, May 14, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has named Kevin Hoshstrasser site director for its Florida Operations at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Hoshstrasser will manage the site and represent...

ST. LOUIS, May 13, 2008 -- QinetiQ and Boeing [NYSE: BA], leaders of Team ACTIVE (Aircrew Collective Training through Immersive Virtual Events), have successfully linked the U.S. Distributed...

Click image to view Photo Release. ST. LOUIS, May 12, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that the U.S. Air Force has placed the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite into operation...

ST. LOUIS, May 08, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] joined the wing assembly and fuselage of the first P-8A Poseidon for the U.S. Navy on May 1 in Renton, Wash. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS)...

ST. LOUIS, May 08, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today dedicated a new test and evaluation facility in Huntington Beach, Calif., that provides the technology and capability to support both...

ST. LOUIS, May 06, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is seeking talented mission operations specialists with current NASA experience in the Houston area in support of its bid for NASA's...

ST. LOUIS, May 05, 2008 -- A team comprised of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], the U.S. Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, AMRDEC Aviation Systems Integration Facility, Harris Corp....

ST. LOUIS, April 30, 2008 -- After a thorough review of Switzerland's requirements for partial replacement of its Tiger fighter aircraft, Boeing [NYSE: BA] has decided not to enter the competition...

KUWAIT CITY, April 30, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the Australian College of Kuwait have completed a joint vocational training project, satisfying an offset requirement of Kuwait's...

ST. LOUIS, April 29, 2008 – The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA), a joint effort of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Insitu Inc., this month logged a pair of service milestones as it...

ST. LOUIS, April 24, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today delivered a detailed, 7,000-page proposal offering its advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the Indian Air Force as part of India's...

ST. LOUIS, April 24, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today said it has finished installing the hardware for its Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system's Satellite Operations Center (SOC). The SOC...

ST. LOUIS, April 24, 2008 -- The Boeing [NYSE: BA] KC-767 would be a lower-risk aerial refueling tanker for the American military and taxpayers than the Airbus A330-based KC-30, and it would be...

ST. LOUIS, April 23, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] Support Systems employees in San Antonio work on a C-130 transport aircraft being modified and upgraded as part of the C-130 Avionics Modernization...

ST. LOUIS, April 22, 2008 -- Boeing has been informed that the U.S. Navy has chosen another company for its Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system contract. We are...

ST. LOUIS, April 22, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has opened a new F-15E Mission Training Center (MTC) at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom. The center, Boeing's third, will...

ST. LOUIS, April 22, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and HAVELSAN, a leading software and systems company in the Republic of Turkey, have announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to continue...

ST. LOUIS, April 21, 2008 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $3.8 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for Phase 1 of the Vulture air vehicle program, an...

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, April 21, 2008 -- Boeing Australia Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], on April 20 marked the 10th anniversary of its Brisbane headquarters....

ST. LOUIS, April 21, 2008 -- The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System Block 10 team, led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. [NYSE: BLL] providing the space...

ST. LOUIS, April 18, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) have partnered to further develop industry standards for modeling and simulation (M&S).

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, April 17, 2008 -- Boeing Australia Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], today opened a component repair business that will be housed in a new...

ST. LOUIS, April 16, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has delivered the first Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (LJDAM) kits to the U.S. Air Force. The Precision Laser Guidance Set (PLGS)...

ST. LOUIS, April 16, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its commercial launch business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe's second WorldView...

ST. LOUIS, April 15, 2008 -- The Boeing [NYSE: BA] KC-767 Advanced Tanker would save billions of dollars over the anticipated lifetime of the aircraft compared with the larger Airbus-based KC-30....

Wilmington, MA, St. Louis, MO, and McLean, VA, April 14, 2008 -- Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) and Science Applications International...

ST. LOUIS, April 14, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced a third multimillion-dollar contract award with Solar Systems Pty. Ltd. for concentrator photovoltaic cell assemblies...

ST. LOUIS, April 14, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has named retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong vice president, Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) - Middle East. DeLong will be...

ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today said the U.S. Air Force's decision to award a contract for the next aerial refueling airplane to the team of Northrop Grumman and the European...

ST. LOUIS, April 07, 2008 -- Structural mechanic Richard Flores labels fasteners to be removed from a United Kingdom C-17 as part of the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM)...

ST. LOUIS, April 07, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced a teaming agreement with Computer Sciences Corp. [NYSE: CSC] to pursue the multibillion-dollar U.S. Special Operations...

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 07, 2008 -- The Boeing Company today announced that it is sponsoring a flyover of four historic military airplanes in honor of U.S. airmen who died during World War II and...

ST. LOUIS, April 07, 2008 -- The Boeing Company's [NYSE: BA] CH-47F Chinook helicopter has been fielded by Bravo Company, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th...

ST. LOUIS, April 04, 2008 -- As the Swedish Air Force prepares to modernize its first C-130 aircraft, members of Sweden's C-130 program and Boeing's [NYSE: BA] C-130 Avionics Modernization Program...

CHICAGO, April 03, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] announced today deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the first quarter of 2008. Major program deliveries during the...

ST. LOUIS, April 03, 2008 -- While the U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to build the next aerial refueling airplane to the team of Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space...

ST. LOUIS, April 01, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and two of its California-based suppliers, Pacific Contours and KAP Manufacturing, received Nunn-Perry Awards from the U.S. Department of...

ST. LOUIS, March 31, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Orion Propulsion Inc. (OPI) have signed a government-sponsored Mentor-Protégé agreement to work together on NASA's Ares I rocket,...

ST. LOUIS, March 27, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] hosted a small-business supplier forum March 19 in Houston that attracted more than 75 companies interested in working together to...

ST. LOUIS, March 27, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has returned the second C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) aircraft, H2.5, to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for continued...

ST. LOUIS, March 25, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Army have demonstrated for the first time that the software-defined Joint Tactical Radio System Ground Mobile Radios (JTRS...

ST. LOUIS, March 24, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $49.5 million U.S. Air Force contract to integrate the Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) into 145 F-15E aircraft.

ST. LOUIS, March 17, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] reports that the U.S. Air Force likely would pay up to $30 billion more in fuel bills over 40 years to operate a fleet of 179 Airbus A330-200 aerial...

ST. LOUIS, March 17, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $130 million U.S. Air Force contract to upgrade 16 Air Force and Air National Guard F-15C Eagles with the APG-63(v)3...

ST. LOUIS, March 12, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] on Tuesday received the Outstanding Achievement in Modeling & Simulation (M&S) award from the National Training and Simulation...

ST. LOUIS, March 11, 2008 -- A Boeing [NYSE: BA] International Space Station (ISS) team performed the complex task of integrating Canada's Dextre robotic device and a segment of Japan's Kibo...

ST. LOUIS, March 11, 2008 -- Citing irregularities with the process of the competition and the evaluation of the competitors' bids, The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has filed a formal protest with...

ST. LOUIS, March 10, 2008 -- As the deadline nears for a decision on whether to protest a U.S. Air Force contract award for the next refueling tanker aircraft, officials at Boeing [NYSE: BA] spent...

CHICAGO, March 10, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will file a formal protest on Tuesday asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the decision by the U.S. Air Force to...

ST. LOUIS, March 07, 2008 -- The U.S. Air Force has completed a debriefing for The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] during which acquisition officials sought to explain why they selected a team of...

ST. LOUIS, March 06, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] welcomes the decision by the U.S. Air Force to move up a debriefing to explain why they chose a team of Northrop Grumman and the European...

ST. LOUIS, March 06, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will host a small-business supplier forum March 19 to attract the best of industry as the company prepares to compete for NASA's...

ST. LOUIS, March 06, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today submitted a proposal to participate as a prime contractor in the projected $5.4 billion Future Flexible Acquisition and Sustainment...

ST. LOUIS, March 05, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] Monday delivered the second Japan KC-767 Tanker to the Itochu Corp. for Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), two weeks after...

ST. LOUIS, March 04, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today made public a request for an immediate debriefing from U.S. Air Force officials on the KC-X tanker competition. As of today, the...

ST. LOUIS, March 04, 2008 -- A team led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to demonstrate initial technologies for a new spacecraft...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 29, 2008 -- We were just informed that our KC-767 Advanced Tanker proposal was not selected in the KC-135 Replacement Program known as KC-X. Obviously we are very disappointed with...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 28, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today celebrated a trio of Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) delivery milestones -- the 1,000th SDB I, the 200th BRU-61/A Bomb Rack Unit Carriage...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is continuing to support the U.S. Air Force's KC-10 Extender aerial refueling tanker fleet under the KC-10 Contractor Logistics Support...

Click image to view Photo Release. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that its more than 260 commercial and civil satellites have achieved a total of 2,500...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $280.5 million U.S. Army contract for 11 new CH-47F Chinook helicopters, increasing the number of new Chinooks on...

Click image to view Photo Release. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today reported the continuing success of its Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) ground control system that operates...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will draw on its space exploration experience as well as innovative commercial and defense practices to compete for NASA's Facilities...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] received full acceptance of its SBInet Project 28 (P28) border security prototype Thursday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)....

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have achieved a significant milestone for the revolutionary Airborne Laser (ABL)...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 20, 2008 -- Boeing Australia Limited and AgustaWestland today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to propose an integrated helicopter aircrew training system to the...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $49 million U.S. Air Force contract to advance the state of the art in laser technology. Under the Laser Application...

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ST. LOUIS, Feb. 15, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has signed an associate contractor's agreement (ACA) with five other aerospace companies to work together on the Ares I upper stage. The...

Company prepares certified aircraft for delivery ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today completed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification requirements for...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is celebrating a milestone for the T-45 Goshawk, the U.S. Navy's premier jet trainer aircraft, which this week flew its 800,000th hour in...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $4 million U.S. Navy contract to provide a ship-wide communications network for two guided missile destroyers (DDG) now...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, Feb. 11, 2008 -- Boeing Australia Limited and Insitu, Inc.'s ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has successfully delivered 10,000 surveillance and reconnaissance flight...

ST LOUIS, Feb. 11, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has named retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey B. Kohler vice president of International Strategy for Integrated Defense Systems...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will highlight its extensive portfolio of defense products and services at India's DefExpo 2008, Feb. 16-19 at Pragati Maidan in New...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 07, 2008 -- With today's successful liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis, The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and NASA are starting off 2008 with renewed focus following three successful...

Click image to view Photo Release. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 07, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] yesterday was awarded a $1.25 million concept refinement contract for the U.S. Navy's EPX program. EPX...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 06, 2008 -- The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) today announced the award of a contract to Thales UK in partnership with The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] for the System-of-Systems...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 06, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today hosted an aerospace industry conference in Huntsville, Ala., to recruit the nation's best suppliers for the Ares I Instrument Unit...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 01, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received a $307 million U.S. Air Force contract extension to continue providing logistics support and other services to the nation's...

IDS President and CEO Albaugh Announces Series of New Leadership Assignments for High-Performing Business Unit Moves Designed to Increase Integration, Innovation to Drive Near- and Long-Term...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $73.7 million U.S. Navy contract to design and develop the Harpoon Block III missile, a next-generation weapon system...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 30, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $116 million U.S. Air Force contract for more than 4,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits. Boeing will...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its Wilmington (Del.) Training Center, trained more than 425 U.S. and foreign military and company personnel in 2007, providing...

Click image to view Photo Release. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] made KC-767 program history Jan. 26 when one if its aircrews successfully transferred fuel from a...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 29, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has entered into an agreement with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and two leading Indian information technology companies to develop wireless...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced the delivery of DIRECTV 11, the second of three new Boeing-built satellites for DIRECTV, Inc., to the Sea Launch Home Port...

Click image to view Photo Release. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced the successful on-orbit handover of the first of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites to the...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $20 million contract to provide an AH-64D Apache Longbow Crew Trainer (LCT) and Life Cycle Support to the Egyptian air...

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has named veteran NASA space shuttle engineer John P. Mulholland its new Space Shuttle vice president and program manager. With more than...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jan. 25, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has provided contracts worth more than $166 million to companies in Ontario. The announcement follows the...

ST. LOUIS, and BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 25, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today announced they will team to perform studies and system development efforts...

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, Jan. 23, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has provided contracts worth more than $157 million to companies in Canada's Western provinces. The...