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    Boeing Subsidiary Completes 18-Month Small Satellite Tech Demo Mission

    Boeing‘s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary has completed an 18-month mission to demonstrate the performance of small satellite subsystems while in orbit. Millennium said Tuesday it decomissioned the ALTAIR Pathfinder satellite through an operations center in El Segundo, Calif., and spent more than 13K hours to address technology risks. The internally funded mission aimed to showcase spacecraft components built to manage […] More

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    Boeing Completes KC-46 Certification Test’s Second Phase

    Boeing has completed the second phase of a certification test for the KC-46 Pegasus aerial tanker at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A team of Boeing and U.S. Air Force crews tested the tanker over three weeks with the military service’s F-15E as receiver aircraft and conducted flights at different altitudes, configurations and airspeeds, Boeing said Monday. The Air Force and the Aerial Refueling Certification Agency […] More

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    AAR Secures US Marshals Service Aircraft Support Contract

    AAR has received a five-year, $51M contract from the U.S. Marshals Service to maintain and provide logistics support for Boeing 737 planes the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System operates. The company said Friday it will offer full support to two aircraft units stationed at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma. JPATS […] More

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    Randy Deidrick: Boeing Eyes T-X Trainer Full Operational Capability in 2034

    Randy Deidrick, ground-based training systems lead for the T-X program at Boeing, has said the company intends to achieve full operational capability for the T-X trainer aircraft in 2034, National Defense reported Wednesday. “Part of what we’ve been doing in these two months is familiarizing our customer with what we’ve already developed, what we already […] More

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    Boeing Taps Lockheed to Develop, Test F-15C Sensor Systems for Air Force

    Boeing has awarded Lockheed Martin a pair of contracts to produce and integrate multifunction sensor systems into the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15C jets. Lockheed said Tuesday it will manufacture 19 Legion Pod low-rate initial production systems under an LRIP contract and will test, qualify and install sensors over a 28-month period under an engineering and manufacturing development contract. Legion Pod is […] More

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    Boeing Taps Lockheed for Navy Block II Super Hornet Sensor Dev’t Work

    Lockheed Martin has received a $108M contract from Boeing to complete development of an infrared search and track sensor technology for installation on the U.S. Navy’s Block II F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jets. Lockheed said Monday it will build, integrate, test and ensure qualification of the IRST21 sensor under the program’s second phase. The system is designed to locate airborne […] More

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    SOCOM Orders Boeing A/MH-6 Helicopter Airframe Structures

    Boeing has received a potential $45M contract to provide updated airframe structures for U.S. Special Operations Command’s A/MH-6  helicopters. The company will provide 56 primary airframes for the rotary wing platform under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that has a minimum order value of $100K, the Defense Department said Monday. SOCOM will obligate $5.2M in fiscal 2018 procurement funds at the […] More

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    Boeing, SpaceX Set to Test New Spacecraft for ISS Missions in 2019

    Boeing and SpaceX have scheduled a series of demonstrations for 2019 to seek NASA’s approval for regular flights of their new spacecraft and rockets to bring astronauts to the International Space Station. The demonstrations indicate both companies have moved closer to final stages of development and evaluation of their new space vehicles, NASA said Wednesday. […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Boeing, SparkCognition Seek to Introduce AI-Based Drone Airspace Mgmt Software via Joint Venture

    Boeing and SparkCognition intend to form a new joint venture that will develop software platforms designed to integrate autonomous cargo vehicles and other unmanned aircraft systems into the global airspace. Amir Husain, founder and CEO of SparkCognition, will serve as CEO of Austin, Texas-based SkyGrid that will help clients perform emergency response, industrial inspections and […] More

  • in News, Philanthropy

    Boeing Announces $230M in Corporate Philanthropy Programs; Dennis Muilenburg Quoted

    Boeing expects its corporate giving efforts to reach more than $230M in 2018. The investment includes $55M in new charitable grants as well as donations from business units and employees, the company said Monday. The $55M grants package includes $13M for veterans’ recovery and workforce transition initiatives and a $1.1M investment to support the National Archives Foundation’s […] More

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    Boeing Subsidiary Introduces New Solar-Powered, Long-Endurance Drone

    Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, has unveiled a new autonomous aircraft that utilizes solar energy to perform long, high-altitude flights. The Manassas, Va.-based company said Wednesday its new Odysseus unmanned aerial system can support climate change and atmospheric research as well as missions focused on communication, connectivity and intelligence. Odysseus is designed to monitor storm movement and measure […] More

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    Boeing’s Dennis Muilenburg Optimistic on US Defense Budget

    Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg told FOX Business in an interview aired Tuesday that he believes U.S. spending on defense will remain robust amid calls for reduced budget and concerns over increasing federal deficit. “We see the defense budget here in the U.S. being sustained,” he told Maria Bartiromo of the channel’s “Mornings with Maria.” “If you look […] More