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Overview
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is delivering net-enabled programs today that will allow the end-user -- a warfighter or a civilian -- to operate in a network centric environment with improved situational awareness and decision-making ability. Boeing is working to provide end-to-end NCO solutions -- from modeling and simulation to networking components and platforms to logistics command and control.
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is developing a number of transformational systems and programs that will provide U.S. and joint forces with new network centric warfare capabilities. Conflicts since the first Gulf War have demonstrated that a networked force improves information sharing, shared information enhances situational awareness, enhanced situational awareness enables speed of command (decision making), and the result is increased mission effectiveness and warfighter survivability.
Each business area within IDS develops net-centric capabilities and solutions:
Phantom Works: Home to IDS' Analysis, Modeling, Simulation and Experimentation facilities
Boeing Military Aircraft: Net-enables rotorcraft, global strike, and ISR platforms
Global Services & Support: Integrates all elements of sustainment
Network and Space Systems: Develops complex network systems, intelligence and surveillance systems, and communications architectures
Boeing was an early proponent of network centric operations in the defense industry, and took a leadership position in 2004 as a founding member of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC). The NCOIC fosters global industry collaboration with the goal of developing and advancing interoperable NCO solutions for customers around the world.
Across Boeing, other major net-centric initiatives are underway. The launch of Boeing Commercial Airplanes' 787 Dreamliner will offer real-time aircraft health monitoring and just-in-time delivery of spare parts, which would together enable faster airplane maintenance and repair. In addition, Boeing is working to improve the global air traffic system by partnering with the Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, the European Commission, Eurocontrol and air navigation service providers and airline operators around the world. As part of an FAA contract to develop a common, shared architecture that will link FAA, DoD, DHS and NASA systems together to enable precision in the management of air traffic, a Boeing-led industry team is validating how network-enabled operations developed for military customers can be applied to Air Traffic Management for a more efficient use of the national airspace.