Boeing Space and Communications Group

Backed by an impressive 50-year heritage of space and communications expertise, Boeing Space and Communications (S&C) Group today comprises a series of four market-aligned businesses: launch services; human space flight and exploration; missile defense and space control; and information and communications.

With estimated 1999 revenues of $7 billion and an employee roster of about 37,000, Seal Beach, Calif.-based S&C is the smallest of Boeing's three business units. But it's also the one with the highest growth potential.

• Historically the leader in human space flight as builder of the Apollo vehicles and the Space Shuttle fleet, Boeing S&C is today building the International Space Station and studying advanced reusable launch systems.
• Through its family of expendable Delta rockets and the unique ocean-based Sea Launch program, the unit is a leader in government and commercial launch services.
• Boeing S&C plays a significant leadership role in many defense-related efforts, including the National Missile Defense initiative, the Future Imagery Architecture for the U.S. intelligence community, and Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), among others.

S&C is also a major participant in the burgeoning space-based communications and services marketplace through its work on satellite programs such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and new mobile broadband and remote-sensing initiatives.

Industry projections indicate that the markets S&C serves will treble from their current $40 billion to $120 billion per year by 2010, primarily driven by growth in commercial and government information and communications systems. The two most significant areas of growth will be providing mobile broadband information services and integrating existing and emerging space, air and terrestrial communications systems (also referred to as "systems-of-systems"). Through the S&C Group, Boeing intends to become the world leader in these and other markets.

Headquartered in Seal Beach, Calif., Boeing Space & Communications employs approximately 37,100. About half are based in Southern California and half are spread out among sites in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington state.

Boeing Space and Communications Group is under the leadership of Jim Albaugh, president, and Jim Evatt, executive vice president.