Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $397.9 million sole-source contract to move into the second phase of an airborne warning and control system aircraft modernization program for Saudi Arabia’s air force. The company will provide production, training, installation and checkout services to ensure interoperability of the Saudi E-3 AWACS fleet with ...
The Defense Logistics Agency has exercised an option period worth $149 million under its contract with the joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary for V-22 Osprey engineering and logistics services. Bell Boeing Joint Project Office will support the joint service tiltrotor aircraft platform for the U.S. Air ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide six more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command under a $212.6 million delivery order modification. The company will also provide eight spare shipsets to SOCOM for the remanufactured rotary-wing military aircraft, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. In a separate statement, Boeing ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has closed on a 10-year, $15 billion contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to extend the company’s supply chain support for U.S. military platforms. The company said Monday it will continue to help DLA manage parts and logistics processes for the sustainment of aircraft such as F-15 Eagle, F/A-18 Hornet, KC-46 Pegasus...
Leo Brooks Jr., a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and former Boeing (NYSE: BA) vice president, has joined Uptake as adviser responsible for providing the industrial artificial intelligence software company with strategic leadership guidance and national security insight. Uptake CEO Kayne Grau said in a statement published Thursday Brooks helped ...
A new McAleese & Associates report says NASA and Boeing (NYSE: BA) expect the next uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to occur in the first six months of 2022. Boeing and the space agency held a joint teleconference Tuesday to provide an update on Starliner and Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese...
The U.S. Air Force has indicated its intent to award Boeing (NYSE: BA) a sole-source contract to study and analyze the E-7A Wedgetail aircraft configuration as the branch looks to replace its current E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system. A special notice posted on SAM.gov says that the government is seeking additional information about...
Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, will join Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Nov. 8 to serve as vice president of business development with oversight of the company’s defense, space and government services sales organization. She will directly report to Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and securi...
The U.S. Navy has awarded AAR (NYSE: AIR), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and StandardAero separate contract modifications worth $318.1 million combined to maintain Poseidon maritime patrol planes and engines. All three awards include depot-level support services for Australia and other foreign military sales customers, the Department of Defense said Thursday. A...
Swedish company Saab, Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) teammate in the U.S. Air Force T-7A trainer program, has opened a factory in West Lafayette, Indiana to manufacture the aft section of the military branch’s future pilot training system. The 100,000-square-foot facility will take over the production of the Red Hawk aircraft’s aft section fr...
