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Boeing Unit Wins Baldrige Award for Quality
Long Beach, California — In November, Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs was named a 1998 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner for manufacturing by the Department of Commerce. Airlift and Tanker Programs builds the C-17 for the U.S. Air Force and is also responsible for aerial tanker aircraft and other Air Force and Navy airlift programs. Congress established the Baldrige Award in 1987 to enhance U.S. competitiveness by promoting quality awareness. Airlift and Tanker Programs employs more than 8,000 people in Long Beach, and another 1,000 in locations around the United States. In congratulating the three winners of this year’s Baldrige Award, Commerce Secretary William Daley said, “...With a focus on excellence in everything they do, these agile and efficient companies are delighting customers, investing workers with greater power and responsibilities, and improving their bottom line. They can be counted among America’s leading-edge corporations.”
San Antonio, Texas — Operations at the Boeing Aerospace Support Center at Kelly Air Force Base got off to a good start in September when the first aircraft that arrived for modification work, a C-17 Globemaster III, was completed and delivered back to the Air Force ahead of schedule. The Boeing Aerospace Support Center was established in 1998 to create a world-class maintenance center for large military aircraft. During the year, Boeing won a number of important contracts from the Air Force to provide maintenance and modification work on C-17 transports and KC-10 and KC-135 tankers. The opportunities for new defense business in the aerospace support arena are very encouraging.
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