Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), accepted her fourth consecutive Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic on Monday. Caret received her fourth Wash100 Award for her continued leadership in the development of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, winning major defense contracts for the company and accelerating influential aerospace technology. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 2, 2020 — Leanne Caret, head of Boeing's (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, said the company invested in advanced manufacturing and digital engineering technologies to support its work on the Navy MQ-25 unmanned tanker and the Air Force T-7 trainer, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 18.

U.S. Special Operations Command has received a MH-47G Block II Chinook from Boeing, the first of 24 helicopters the military organization ordered under a $265M contract.

Boeing is close to completing assembly of crew and service modules for the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft that will fly a second time on an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Boeing and NASA are planning to conduct another uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station following issues during the first test in December, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Boeing has added a 20th F/A-18 Super Hornet from the U.S. Navy to a program aimed at extending the service life expectancy of the branch's multirole fighter jets.

A reusable space plane manufactured by Boeing and managed by the Department of the U.S. Air Force's Rapid Capabilities Office has won an award from the National Aeronautic Association for missions that have helped advance flight and space exploration technology.

Boeing has secured a six-year, $50M contract to update the U.S. Air Force's airborne warning and control system with an internet protocol-based communication technology.

Boeing has secured a contract from SES to develop four more 702X satellites for the latter’s satellite constellation in the medium-Earth orbit.

Boeing has converted a retired F-16A/C aircraft into an unmanned configuration for weapons training use as part of a public-private partnership agreement with the U.S. Air Force's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun said he believes the defense industry will continue to receive support from the U.S. government regardless of whoever wins the U.S. presidential elections in November, CNBC reported Wednesday.

Boeing installed an aerial refueling store into an MQ-25 unmanned tanker test asset in preparation for flight testing later this year, Seapower Magazine reported Thursday.

Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary, Lockheed Martin and Georgia Tech Research Corp. have received separate contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to explore active flow control approaches for X-plane development.

The T-7A Red Hawk trainer aircraft developed through a partnership between Boeing and Saab has concluded 80 percent of phase 1 assessments and is undergoing hot-weather testing in St. Louis, Mo., AIN Online reported Monday.

Prat Kumar, a vice president and F-15 program manager at Boeing, said the company’s use of 3D modeling and digital engineering techniques to manufacture the F-15EX fighter jet could make the aircraft program a pathfinder for the U.S. Air Force’s “Digital Century Series” concept.