Boeing Co. has won a $19,485-171 Navy contract to provide post-production support for avionics systems, the Defense Department announced Thursday. Work will support Northrop Grumman Corp.’s T-38 Talon plane, used for training programs. The Pentagon expects work to finish by March 31, 2013. Hill Air Force Base in Utah is the contracting activity for the [...]
The U.K. Defense Ministry will buy a Boeing transport plane and should receive the plane later this year, the Chicago-based aerospace firm announced Wednesday. That plane will be the eighth C-17 Globemaster in the British air force’s fleet. The company provides the planes through performance-based logistics agreements. The company has delivered 241 C-17s worldwide, including [...]
Boeing Co. has delivered a military refueling plane to Chile after completing depot maintenance in San Antonio, the company announced Wednesday. This is the last of the three KC-135E Stratotankers the company delivered to the Chilean air force. Chile bought the planes in July 2009 through the U.S. Air Force’s foreign military sales office. The [...]
Boeing Co. won a $30,144,000 Navy contract modification to provide long lead materials for anti-submarine aircraft, the Defense Department announced Monday. The Chicago-based aerospace firm will provide the materials for low rate initial production of the P-8A Poseidon fleet. The company will perform 68.3 percent of the work in Seattle and the rest will be [...]
Boeing Co. may be looking to expand its footing in Charleston, S.C. by building an additional facility on land near the Charleston International Airport, the Post and Courier reports. The company currently has a 267 acre Charleston-based campus where it employs more than 6,000 people working to assemble the 787 Dreamliner passenger jet. Boeing may be [...]
Boeing Co. has hit every milestone on schedule for its aerial tanker refueling contract with the Air Force, a company executive told Federal News Radio. The Seattle-based aerospace and defense firm won a $35 billion contract in February 2011 to make the tankers, based off the company’s 767 commercial planes. Dennis Muilenberg, president of the [...]
Boeing will work with Airbus and Embraer to develop and promote aviation biofuels, the Seattle-based aerospace firm announced Thursday. Jim Albaugh, commercial airplanes president and CEO, signed the agreement with Airbus President and CEO Tom Enders and Paulo Cesar Silva, Embraer’s commercial aviation president. Albaugh said the price of oil and the impact of commercial [...]
