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Selected Boeing Products, Programs and Services
Boeing is the prime contractor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, designed to intercept and destroy a hostile ballistic missile during its midcourse phase of flight. In December 2002, the President directed the U.S. Department of Defense to proceed with fielding an initial set of missile defense capabilities beginning in 2004 and 2005. These initial capabilities will include ground-based interceptors, sea-based interceptors, additional Patriot (PAC-3) units and sensors based on land, at sea and in space.
The heart of combating terrorism requires gathering information and turning information into knowledge to allow officials to intercede and prevent future catastrophes. Boeing is integrating the "best of industry" and leveraging its network-centric operations capabilities to help bring together disparate and legacy systems to provide comprehensive situational awareness and a common operating picture. This integration will allow unprecedented access and situational awareness from customs and border patrol, to trucks on the road and container ships at sea, to activity at the nation's airports.
The ISS is used to conduct basic and applied research to support human exploration of space and to take advantage of the space environment as a laboratory for scientific, technological and commercial research. As the prime contractor, Boeing is responsible for design, development, construction and integration of the ISS and assistance to NASA in operating the orbital outpost. Boeing built all of the major U.S. elements. In addition, Boeing oversees thousands of subcontractors around the globe and works with 16 international partners on the project. More than four times as large as the Russian Mir when completed, the ISS is the largest, most complex international scientific project in history and our largest adventure into space to date.
JTRS is a joint service initiative to develop a family of software programmable tactical radios that will provide integrated voice, video and data communications across the battlespace. Boeing is under contract with the U.S. Army to design and develop the first of several "clusters" of JTRS radios under the JTRS Cluster 1 program. As prime systems integrator, Boeing has implemented a network-centric approach utilizing a full suite of wideband networking technologies compliant with the JTRS Software Communications Architecture. In spring 2004, the Cluster 1 team will begin the development of the first pre-engineering development model radios planned for delivery in December 2004 for early operational assessment.
The 767 Tanker Transport is the reliable, low-risk solution for air-refueling and transport needs for military services around the globe. The planned KC-767 replacement for the U.S. Air Force's KC-135Es will carry 20 percent more fuel, many more passengers and much greater cargo. The new tanker will be capable of refueling all types of U.S. and allied aircraft and be capable of being refueled itself. The first of four 767 Tanker Transports, on order for Italy, has flown and is now being modified ahead of delivery in 2005. Japan's first four tankers will be delivered in 2007.
Boeing GEM
Boeing 601
Boeing 702
Boeing Satellite Systems is a leading provider of geosynchronous communications satellites for a wide range of government and commercial customers. Core competencies include digital payloads and reconfigurable antennas. Core products include the Boeing 702, the world's highest-power satellite; the Boeing GEM, delivering mobile communications; the Boeing 601, the world's best-selling large spacecraft; and the versatile Boeing 376. Military programs include up to six U.S. Air Force Wideband Gapfiller Satellites and the U.S. Navy UHF Follow-On 11-satellite fleet. In 2003, Boeing received contracts to build MEASAT-3 for Binariang Satellite Systems of Kuala Lumpur and a fourth spacecraft for XM Satellite Radio. Five BSS satellites were launched, and we ended the year with a firm $3 billion backlog, including a significant number of government spacecraft, 26 commercial satellites and two Earth science instruments.
2003 deliveries: 4
Sea Launch is an international company in which Boeing is a 40-percent investor with partner firms in Russia, Ukraine and Norway. Sea Launch offers heavy-lift commercial launch services in the 4,000 to 6,000-kilogram (8,818 to 13,228 pounds) payload class from an ocean-based platform positioned on the Equator. Sea Launch has completed ten successful missions, since its inaugural launch in March 1999. Sea Launch also offers land-based commercial launch services for medium weight satellites up to 3,500 kilograms (7,716 pounds) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in collaboration with International Space Services, of Moscow. Sea Launch World Headquarters and Home Port are located in Long Beach, California.
A world leader in all-weather precision munitions, Boeing covers a wide spectrum of strike weapon capabilities. These include the Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM), Brimstone, Harpoon and the Small Diameter Bomb. Customers include all U.S. military services and the armed forces of 27 other nations.