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    Iridium to Hire Some Boeing Employees in Satellite Partnership Restructuring Effort

    Iridium will move to absorb the majority of Boeing‘s team of workers who provide operations and maintenance support to Iridium satellites beginning Jan. 3, 2017 as part of an insourcing agreement signed between the two companies. Both companies restructured their current partnership as Iridium prepares to launch and transition into the NEXT satellite broadband service, the satellite communications firm said Wednesday. Iridium will pay a […] More

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    Boeing’s Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has demonstrated the new wide-area maritime surface search and identification feature of its unmanned aerial vehicle to the U.K. navy, military officials and industry representatives. Insitu said Tuesday it installed the ViDAR payload in a ScanEagle UAV that was used to conduct various maritime missions during the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior demonstration held in Benbecula, Scotland. […] More

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    Aerospace Industries Association Appoints New Board of Governors Members for 2017

    The defense sector trade group Aerospace Industries Association has elected new members its executive board of governors for 2017 that includes at least 20 government contracting industry leaders. AIA said Thursday Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg was chosen to serve as the association’s chairman of the board and Raytheon chief executive Thomas Kennedy was elected vice chairman. David Melcher was reappointed […] More

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    Boeing Taps BAE to Support F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Upgrade Program

    Boeing has awarded BAE Systems a multi-year, $140 million contract to develop an electronic warfare system for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 modernization program. BAE said Monday it will equip the Boeing-built fighter aircraft with a digital EW system designed to help operators detect and defend against current and emerging threats as part of the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System program. […] More

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    Boeing Unveils Defense Segment Facility, Workload Consolidation Plan

    Boeing will consolidate facilities and move workloads across Los Angeles County, St. Louis and Huntsville, Alabama as part of a realignment within the company’s defense segment. The company said Tuesday it plans to reduce 4.5 million square feet by the end of 2020 and move positions from Kent, Washington to Tukwila while work from Huntington Beach will transfer to […] More

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    Boeing Vet Shephard Hill Joins KeyW Board

    Shephard Hill, former president of Boeing‘s international business organization, has joined the board of directors at cyber and geospatial services company KeyW. KeyW said Wednesday that Hill will fill the board seat vacated by John Hannon and will serve on both the audit and compensation committees. “[Hill’s] hands-on experience in developing and implementing strategies for driving growth and nurturing […] More

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    Boeing, DISA Develop Mobile Device for Top-Secret Military Communications; Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn Comments

    The Defense Information Systems Agency and Boeing have developed a mobile device designed to help military commanders transmit and receive top-secret messages, Defense One reported Nov. 1. Patrick Tucker writes the Boeing Black mobile phone works with virtual private networks and mobile device management platforms and has a dual-SIM functionality that allows users to use […] More

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    Report: US Defense Sector Expects Donald Trump’s Presidential Win to Drive Weapons Spending

    The U.S. defense industry expects Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election combined with Republicans retaining their majorities in both House and Senate to result in an increase in weapons spending, Forbes reported Wednesday. Loren Thompson writes that Trump has announced plans to update the country’s aging nuclear weaponry that includes long-range bombers, ground-based missiles and […] More

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    Singapore Taps Airbus, Boeing for Military Transport Helicopters

    Airbus and Boeing have received separate contracts from Singapore’s ministry of defense to provide helicopters to support transport activities of the country’s armed forces. The ministry said Monday it chose Airbus’ H225M medium lift helicopter and Boeing’s CH-47F heavy lift helicopter to replace the Singaporean air force’s Super Pumas and Chinook platforms following a rigorous evaluation process. The military branch will use H225M and […] More

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    ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite

    The launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites has been rescheduled from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19, pending clearance from the Eastern Range. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from space launch complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More

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    ULA Rocket to Send NASA-NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit

    United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is scheduled to launch a weather monitoring satellite Nov. 19 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R will lift atop ULA’s  Atlas V 541 configuration rocket from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, ULA said Sunday. […] More

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    ULA Sets Nov. 11 for DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch

    United Launch Alliance has set a Nov. 11 launch date to lift DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView-4 satellite into space on-board a ULA Atlas V rocket on Nov. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. ULA said Wednesday its team is working to address Atlas V booster issues discovered during final launch preparations. Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business built WorldView-4, which will work to […] More