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  • Mar 16, 2017
    First “E” model multi-year contract ensures readiness, cost savings

    MESA, Ariz., March 16, 2017 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. government recently signed a five-year, $3.4 billion contract through which the Army, and a customer outside the U.S., will acquire the latest Apache attack helicopter at a significant savings to taxpayers.

  • Mar 12, 2017
    Performance-Based Logistics Contract Improves Aircraft Readiness, Drives Down Customer Costs

    ST. LOUIS, March 13, 2017 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received a five-year contract to continue long-term sustainment of the Republic of Korea Air Force’s (ROKAF) F-15K aircraft, supporting to the fleet’s readiness.

  • Mar 2, 2017
    Capable, ready-to-serve solution intended to replace UH-1N “Huey” Fleet, which guards U.S. weapons

    ORLANDO, Fla., March 2, 2017 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] today unveiled its MH-139 helicopter in the competition to replace the U.S. Air Force’s UH-1N “Huey” fleet, which currently protects intercontinental ballistic missiles and transports U.S. government and security forces.

  • Feb 21, 2017
    Contract with United Arab Emirates builds on previous successes

    ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 21, 2017 – Reflecting continuing momentum in its international training business, Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received a two-year, $18.7 million contract from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide C-17 Globemaster III logistics support and training simulator maintenance.

  • Feb 20, 2017
    Tokyo-based SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Singapore-based Kacific Broadband Satellites order a 702 satellite to meet evolving communication, broadband needs

    EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 20, 2017 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] will build a 702 satellite to expand communication for mobile telephone, data and internet users throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

  • Feb 19, 2017

    BRISBANE, Australia, Feb. 20, 2017 – Effective today, Boeing [NYSE: BA] has named Darren Edwards as vice president and managing director of Boeing Defence Australia (BDA), the company’s largest international subsidiary. He succeeds Ken Shaw, who had been appointed vice president of Supply Chain for Boeing Global Services.

  • Feb 6, 2017
    New privately funded passageway to space estimated to increase station utilization once installed on International Space Station in 2019

    HOUSTON, Feb. 6, 2017 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NanoRacks LLC will partner to develop the first privately funded commercial airlock, enabling the United States to potentially triple the number of small satellites it can deploy from the International Space Station (ISS) during a single airlock cycle.

  • Feb 2, 2017
    Agreement enables persistent GPS capability as Boeing works on next-generation GPS

    EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Air Force recently signed a Global Positioning System (GPS) sustainment agreement that will ensure the navigation capabilities relied upon by millions of military and commercial users remain robust for years to come.

  • Jan 27, 2017

    EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 27, 2017 – The U.S. Air Force today awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] $2.1 billion for 15 KC-46A tanker aircraft, spare engines and wing air refueling pod kits.

  • Jan 23, 2017
    ABS-2A, a 702 satellite, will deliver in-home communications services across areas of Asia, Africa and Russia

    EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 23, 2017 – A Boeing [NYSE: BA] satellite built for ABS entered into commercial service, providing enhanced satellite services including direct-to-home television services on Jan. 21 to customers in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, South Asia and South East Asia.

  • Dec 20, 2016
    Milestone proves the aircraft’s low risk, maturity and safety

    ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and partner Saab [Stockholm: SAABB] today completed the first flight of their all-new T-X aircraft, which is designed specifically for the U.S. Air Force’s training requirements.

  • Dec 13, 2016
    Airborne Warning and Control System upgrades improve efficiency, cost savings and operator awareness

    SEATTLE, Dec. 13, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] today delivered to NATO the first of fourteen E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft with cockpit upgrades that improve mission-readiness, decrease customer costs and reaffirm Boeing’s overall commitment to the fleet.

  • Dec 7, 2016
    New digital payload will also substantially increase capacity

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 7, 2016 – Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] eighth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite will provide nearly twice as much communications bandwidth as previous WGS satellites due to an upgraded digital payload. Using leading commercial digital circuit technology, the newly upgraded satellite will aid in fulfilling the increasing demand for high-data rate communications of warfighters around the globe.

  • Dec 6, 2016
    Developer of Wave Glider® ocean robot boosts ocean data collection capabilities

    ST. LOUIS, Dec. 6, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] has entered into an agreement to acquire Liquid Robotics, a market leader in autonomous maritime systems and developer of the Wave Glider ocean surface robot, to grow its seabed-to-space autonomous capabilities.

  • Nov 15, 2016
    El Segundo, Long Beach, Seal Beach, St. Louis, Huntsville gaining jobs

    ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] is taking steps to operate its Defense, Space & Security business more efficiently through facilities consolidations and work movements that will increase employment in Los Angeles County, St. Louis, and Huntsville, Ala.

  • Nov 11, 2016

    ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] is promoting Pat Goggin to be president of its Defense, Space & Security Development organization, succeeding Jim O’Neill who will retire next year.

  • Oct 13, 2016
    Company invests more than $300 million to bring enhanced composite production to St. Louis region

    ST. LOUIS, Oct. 13, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] today formally opened a new composite center on its St. Louis campus that will house the company’s largest commercial aviation work statement ever placed at the site.

  • Oct 13, 2016
    Company-commissioned study shows Boeing contribution nearly 14 percent of Canada’s aerospace industry

    WINNIPEG, Manitoba, CANADA, October 13, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] contributes more than US$3 billion annually to Canada’s economic growth and development, according to a study commissioned by the company.

  • Oct 11, 2016

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 11, 2016 – The Boeing Company responded today to the U.S. Air Force solicitation for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction (TMRR) contract, to partner with the U.S. Air Force to provide a safe, secure and effective intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system to deter emerging, modern nuclear threats.

     

  • Sep 22, 2016
    Succeeds Craig Cooning, who is retiring, as head of $7.8 billion division

    ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] veteran Jim Chilton will succeed Craig R. Cooning as president of the company’s Network & Space Systems (N&SS) businesses, effective Oct. 21.

  • Sep 15, 2016

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 15, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] took the first step toward bringing a formal legal challenge of the Danish Ministry of Defence’s evaluation regarding the country’s next fighter jet.

  • Sep 13, 2016
    Affordable, low risk and more flexible than older aircraft

    ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and its partner Saab AB [Stockholm: SAABB] will use their two production T-X aircraft, revealed today, to show the U.S. Air Force the performance, affordability, and maintainability advantages of their approach.

  • Sep 12, 2016
    The satellite for Global IP will be the first to carry Boeing’s latest digital payload technology

    EL SEGUNDO, Calif. and GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Sept. 12, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] will build a 702 satellite, called GiSAT, with a new digital payload offering twice the capacity of previous digital payload designs.

  • Aug 25, 2016
    Communications system enables voice and data services to all regions of the country

    EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] has delivered one of the world’s most advanced satellite communications systems to Mexico, one that opens high-speed data and voice communications to the entire country including some previously unserved areas.

  • Aug 22, 2016

    ST. LOUIS, August 22, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] has delivered to the Republic of Korea an Apache Longbow Crew Trainer that the country’s Army air crews will use to prepare for the AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters that Boeing begins delivering later this year.The system uses the Apache’s flight software and matured flight and avionics simulation models to create an accurate training environment that increases mission readiness.

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