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    Sean McCormack, Anne Toulouse, Brian Ames Take Communications Executive Roles at Boeing

    Sean McCormack, Anne Toulouse and Brian Ames have moved to senior leadership positions within the communications organization of Boeing. Boeing appointed McCormack as vice president of communications for its commercial airplanes business, with responsibility in media relations, employee and executive communications and advertising and marketing communications, Boeing said Friday. McCormack, Boeing’s corporate VP of communications […] More

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    ULA Wraps of Design Review of Boeing Spacecraft Launch Pad; Ellen Plese Comments

    United Launch Alliance has completed the critical design review phase of work to evaluate a launch site in Florida that Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation -100 spacecraft will launch from. The CDR was supported by Boeing, NASA and the Air Force and sought to evaluate the CST-100 crew module’s and emergency systems, ULA said Tuesday. “This was a critical milestone to […] More

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    David Johnston: Boeing-Led Team to Help Australia Refresh HF Comm System

    A team of companies led by Boeing will help the Australian defense department update the military’s high-frequency communications system under a contract worth more than $26 million. Alcatel Lucent and Ebor Computing will work with Boeing and Australia’s defense materials organization to bring new communications tools to maturity, Australian Defense Minister David Johnston said Monday. “This contract… builds upon […] More

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    Boeing to Develop Satellite for Intelsat; Thierry Guillemin Comments

    Boeing has received an order from Intelsat for the ninth Epic Next Generation satellite. Boeing develops the 35e EpicNG satellite based on its 702 medium power platform, Boeing said Tuesday. Thierry Guillemin, Intelsat executive vice president and chief technical officer, said the company aims for the satellite-based infrastructure to meet customer demands for commercial plane bandwidth […] More

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    Boeing, Northrop Answer Air Force’s Call for GPS III Satellite Contractors

    Northrop Grumman and Boeing have sent their responses to a U.S. Air Force notice that seeks a vendor to build the branch’s next set of GPS satellites under a potential $200 million contract, Space News reported Thursday. Mike Gruss writes the Air Force’s acquisition arm released a solicitation in search of interested vendors to develop the next batch of GPS III satellites and […] More

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    Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14

    Boeing has delivered a 14th P-A Poseidon airplane to U.S. Navy as the branch seeks to bolster its sea patrolling capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The first Poseidon squadron deployed in Kadena, Japan last winter to carry out operational missions and a second squadron is scheduled to deploy later this summer, Boeing says. Navy Commander Tony Rossi, […] More

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    Miguel Santos: Boeing Eyes South Africa for A&D Business Expansion

    Boeing plans to bolster its footprint in the South African market by investing in areas such as flight training, aircraft parts manufacturing and biofuel production, defenceWeb reported Wednesday. “We want to further our presence in South Africa in a variety of ways: manufacturing, pilot training, defense, commercial,” said Miguel Santos, vice president for Boeing’s African […] More

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    Executive Profile: Will Grannis, L-3 Chief Technical Officer and Engineering VP

    Will Grannis, chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at L-3 Communications, leads a team of scientists, engineers and solutions developers to provide customers with C4ISR, big data, cybersecurity and other technical services. He joined L-3 after its acquisition of What’s Next, where he drove big data and cybersecurity support for the intelligence community and the Energy Department […] More

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    Ryan Hartman: Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Adding Weight for ‘Integrator’ UAS Variant

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary is building a heavier variant of its Integrator unmanned aerial vehicle platform to accommodate additional payloads and capabilities, Defense News reported Saturday. Aaron Mehta writes the variant will be at 165 pounds, compared to the current 135 pounds of the Marine Corps‘ Integrator-based RQ-21A Blackjack. “One of the things we know for a fact is when you start adding […] More

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    Boeing to Compete in South Korea Tanker Competition; Eric John Comments

    Boeing has formally offered the company’s KC-46 tanker to South Korea as the country prepares to acquire four aircraft for its first tanker squadron. South Korea’s defense acquisition agency received the offer after it issued a request for proposals for aerial refueling tankers and the agency aims to finish the competition later this year, Boeing said […] More

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    Rob Smith: Lockheed-Led Team Seeks to Link Military Missile Defense Elements

    An industry team led by Lockheed Martin is working to establish a link between battle management systems used by the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army. The Missile Defense National Team is developing the C2BMC (command, control, battle management and communications) system to unify disparate ballistic missile defense elements, Lockheed said Thursday. “Potential air and ballistic missile threats […] More

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    Brian Ritter: DARPA to Begin ‘X-Plane’ Demonstrator Reviews at End of July

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will start evaluating four proposed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft designs by the end of next month, IHS Janes’s 360 reported Wednesday. Gareth Jennings writes that Brian Ritter, a program manager at Boeing, told reporters Tuesday that DARPA will review VTOL X-Plane prototypes from Boeing, Aurora Flight Sciences, Karem and Sikorsky. DARPA […] More