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.
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Boeing Integrates Aerial Refueling Store With MQ-25 Drone Test Asset
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.
Read More »DARPA Selects Boeing Subsidiary, Lockheed, GTRC for New X-Plane Tech Project
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.
Read More »Boeing-Saab Team’s T-7A Trainer Jet for Air Force Completes 80% of Initial Testing
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.
Read More »Prat Kumar: Boeing Uses Digital Engineering, 3D Modeling to Build F-15EX
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.
Read More »Boeing Marks 2500th Apache Attack Helicopter Delivery
Boeing has completed the 2,500th delivery of the AH-64 Apache, a new milestone for the attack helicopter being used by the U.S. Army and international customers. The company said Tuesday it built and delivered an E-model of the aircraft from a production facility in Mesa, Ariz., to the service branch.
Read More »Boeing-Bell Team Provides First CMV-22B Osprey Aircraft for Navy Fleet Operations
A joint venture of Boeing and Textron's Bell subsidiary delivered an CMV-22B aircraft for operational use by the U.S. Navy's Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 30.
Read More »Navy to Test-Fly Modernized Boeing Super Hornet Aircraft
The U.S. Navy has received a pair of F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet jets Boeing manufactured for flight testing use. The company said Wednesday it delivered one single-seat E variant and a two-seat F variant of the modernized fighter aircraft to the service branch,
Read More »Boeing-Sikorsky Team Marks New Speed Record for ‘Defiant’ Helicopter
A team that includes Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has reached a milestone for the SB-1 Defiant helicopter that serves as its bid for a U.S. Army program, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday.
Read More »SES Selects Northrop, Boeing to Build Satellites for C-Band Spectrum Clearing Plan; Steve Collar Quoted
SES announced Tuesday its selection of Northrop Grumman and Boeing to build four new satellites as part of an accelerated C-band clearing plan to help address the Federal Communications Commission’s 5G service rollout objectives.
Read More »Bell-Boeing Team Marks 400th Osprey Aircraft Delivery
A partnership between Boeing and Textron's Bell subsidiary has completed delivery of its milestone 400th V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, a joint service multirole combat aircraft designed to combine a helicopter's vertical performance with a fixed-wing platform's speed and range.
Read More »Former Boeing Exec Kevin McAllister Named AEI Senior Operating Partner
AE Industrial Partners (AEI) has appointed Kevin McAllister, former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, as a senior operating partner, effective immediately, AEI reported on Thursday.
Read More »Navy Flight Demo Squadron Receives First Boeing Super Hornet Aircraft
The U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron has received a Boeing-built test unit of the Super Hornet fighter aircraft, the first of 11 jets the company expects to deliver this year.
Read More »Boeing Launches Spaceplane to Support Gov’t Experiments
Boeing has lifted off its autonomous spaceplane with a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket for a mission to deploy an experimental small satellite and other payloads.
Read More »Boeing Completes Shipment of 100th Navy P-8A Aircraft
Boeing has handed over to the U.S. Navy the 100th unit of a long-range multimission aircraft built to perform maritime and coastal operations.
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