Boeing

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A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $32.4 billion business with 72,000 employees worldwide.

Announced June 29, 2007, The Boeing Company has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract worth up to $2 billion between 2007 and 2018 for engineering services and the manufacturing of 242 wing sets for the Air Force's A-10 fleet. The A-10 wing replacement program calls for the replacement wing sets to be delivered in parts and kits for easy installation. Boeing has teamed with key suppliers to meet all the requirements presented by the A-10 contract, Robertson said. He added that the Boeing solution will allow the nation's A-10 fleet to fly at least 20 more years. The A-10, first introduced in 1976, is a twin-engine jet aircraft designed for close-air support of ground forces. The simple, effective and survivable single-seat aircraft can be used against all ground targets, including tanks and other armored vehicles.

Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems (S&IS), headquartered in Seal Beach, Caliornia, is the company's center for all intelligence and government/commercial space systems. Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc., a unit of S&IS, is the world's leading manufacturer of geostationary satellites. The factory is headquartered in El Segundo, Calif. and manufactures the body-stabilized Boeing 601 satellite and Boeing 702, the world's most powerful communications satellite, two lines of satellites designed to support mobile communications, and a series of global positioning satellites and military communications satellites.

Website: http://www.boeing.com/