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Overview

Boeing Defense, Space & Security combines manned and unmanned airborne capabilities, intelligence and security systems, communications architectures and extensive large-scale integration expertise across several diverse business areas.

A $32 billion business with 63,000 employees worldwide, Defense, Space & Security's strategy is to understand the enduring needs of customers and provide capability-based solutions to meet their rapidly evolving requirements. The strategy includes understanding the art of using current and emerging technologies to improve the capabilities of existing products and deliver new solutions.

Organization

Boeing Defense, Space & Security's success will continue to be driven by its ability to provide customers with the right solutions at the right time and the right cost. To effectively address future evolving requirements for capability-driven solutions, the business is organized around capabilities to further improve execution, reduce organizational complexity and improve competitiveness, helping to better serve customers and compete for and capture new business.

Boeing Military Aircraft

This business includes tactical and airlift aircraft, missiles, unmanned airborne systems, and surveillance and engagement programs.

Global Strike:

• AH-6 Light Attack/Reconnaissance Helicopter -- The AH-6 Light Attack/Reconnaissance helicopter is designed to quickly meet the needs of today's international defense forces while maintaining the capability to quickly integrate future growth. The aircraft features flexible mission configuration; state-of-the-art cockpit architecture; integrated and qualified sensors and weapons systems; the highest payload for any aircraft in its class; outstanding reliability and low maintenance costs; and a compressed, on-time and on-cost delivery schedule to meet customers' needs. The versatile AH-6 is capable of meeting the needs for the U.S. Army's Armed Aerial Scout mission.
• AH-64D Apache -- The AH-64D Apache is a multirole combat helicopter that features fully integrated avionics and weapons, plus state-of-the-art digital communications capabilities that enable real-time, secure transfer of battlefield information to air and ground forces. Apaches are in service with the U.S. Army and international defense forces around the world. Boeing delivered the first production AH-64D Apache Block III to the U.S. Army in October 2011. This newest version of the Apache features enhanced aircraft performance, joint digital operability, survivability and cognitive decision aiding, while reducing operations and support costs.
• EA-18G Growler -- The EA-18G Growler is a variant of the combat-proven F/A-18F Super Hornet Block II, and conducts airborne electronic attack missions. The EA-18G combines the capability of the combat-proven Super Hornet with the latest AEA avionics suite evolved from the Improved Capability III (ICAP III) system. The EA-18G's vast array of sensors and weapons provides the warfighter with a lethal and survivable weapon system to counter current and emerging threats. The Growler completed Initial Operational Test and Evaluation in May 2009 and achieved initial operational capability in September 2009. The Department of Defense authorized the EA-18 to enter into Full Rate Production in November 2009. The EA-18G's initial combat deployment occurred in late 2010 and concluded in mid-2011, supporting operations in Iraq and Libya. Boeing has delivered 56 Growlers to the U.S. Navy as of Jan.1, 2012.
• F/A-18E/F Super Hornet -- The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is the U.S. Navy's newest, premier strike fighter, deployed in both air-dominance and precision-strike roles. Combining exceptional aerodynamic and systems performance, long-term growth capability, and advanced sensors like the APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, the Super Hornet carries within its design every role a tactical aircraft can perform. The Super Hornet's advanced sensor and information suite collects and fuses data from offboard sources and onboard sensors, enabling the Super Hornet to seamlessly detect and eliminate air, ground or sea-based threats. Built by the most innovative team in aerospace -- Boeing, General Electric Aviation, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman -- the Super Hornet features a design optimized for a long and cost-effective service life, operating from aircraft carriers and land bases. Its advanced composites and modern alloys enable major signature reduction that achieves optimum stealth. With date-certain deliveries, cost-certain production and proven combat capability, the Super Hornet is the low-risk, high-end fighter/attack solution for the United States and its global defense partners. Boeing has delivered 482 Super Hornets to the U.S. Navy as of Jan 1, 2012, including 24 F/A-18Fs for the Royal Australian Air Force.
• F-15E Strike Eagle -- The F-15E Strike Eagle is the backbone of the U.S. Air Force fleet, with variants currently in production for the Republic of Korea and Singapore. The F-15E carries payloads larger than those of any other tactical fighter, and it retains the air-to-air capability and air superiority of the F-15C. It can operate around the clock and in any weather. Since entering operational service, the F-15 has a perfect air combat record, with more than 100 victories and no losses. Three other nations currently fly the F-15 -- Japan, Israel, S. Korea, Singapore and Saudi Arabia.
• F-15 Silent Eagle -- In March 2009, Boeing unveiled the F-15 Silent Eagle (F-15SE), a new F-15 configuration designed to meet the future needs of international customers. The F-15SE combines cost-effective low-observable technologies with flexibility for large and diverse weapons payloads. Features include redesigned conformal fuel tanks to allow for internal weapons carriage, and canted vertical tails improve aerodynamic efficiency, provide lift, and reduce airframe weight. The F-15SE also features the Digital Flight Control System, which improves the aircraft's reliability and reduces airframe weight, and an Advanced Electronic Warfare System working in concert with the Raytheon Advanced Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) radar.

Mobility:

• C-17 Globemaster III -- The C-17 is the world's premier heavy-lift aircraft and has proven itself as a versatile strategic and theater airlifter in every recent worldwide operation, from Operation Iraqi Freedom to humanitarian relief missions. As of December 2011, Boeing has delivered 239 C-17s worldwide, including 214 to the U.S. Air Force and 25 aircraft to six international customers. Boeing is under contract with the U.S. Air Force to design, build and deliver 223 C-17s. In June 2011, India's Ministry of Defence signed an agreement with the U.S. government to acquire 10 C-17s that will be delivered in 2013 and 2014. In September 2011, the Royal Australian Air Force accepted delivery of its fifth C-17, and in December 2011, the U.S. Congress approved Australia's Letter of Request for a sixth C-17 to be delivered in 2012. The United Arab Emirates Air Force and Air Defence received its first four C-17s in 2011 and will receive two in 2012. The Royal Air Force has acquired seven C-17s; the RAAF has five; the Royal Canadian Air Force has four C-17s. The 12-nation Strategic Airlift Capability consortium of NATO and Partnership for Peace nations received three C-17s in 2009. Qatar, the first Middle East customer to order C-17s, received two C-17s in 2009 and holds options for two more.
• CH/MH-47 Chinook -- The CH/MH-47 Chinook is a medium-to-heavy-lift helicopter for intra-theater troop and cargo movement. The aircraft conducts missions from combat to disaster relief and is in service with the armed forces of nearly 20 countries worldwide. The new CH-47F provides advanced avionics for improved situational awareness for flight crews with an advanced digital map display and a data transfer system that allows storing of preflight and mission data. Improved survivability features include Common Missile Warning and Improved Countermeasure Dispenser systems. The MH-47 provides key capabilities to special operations forces.
• U.S. Air Force KC-46A Tanker Program -- On Feb. 24, 2011, the U.S. Air Force selected the Boeing NewGen Tanker to start replacing aging KC-135 aerial refueling tankers. The Air Force designated the new aircraft the KC-46A.The fixed-price contract is valued at over $3.5 billion and calls for Boeing to design, develop, manufacture and deliver 18 aircraft by 2017. The overall program for 179 tankers is valued at upwards of $30 billion. In the initial engineering, manufacturing and design (EMD) phase of the program, Boeing will deliver four aircraft to the Air Force for test and evaluation. Based on the proven Boeing 767 commercial airplane, updated with advanced technology, the KC-46A Tanker will allow the Air Force to deliver fuel to other aircraft in-flight, and transport cargo, passengers and patients.
• International Tanker Programs -- The KC-767 International Tanker provides unrivaled tanker capability and operational flexibility. Technology advances include a fifth-generation boom, second-generation remote vision system, new wing air refueling pods and hose drum unit. With the delivery of the fourth and final Italy tanker in early 2012, Boeing will have completed all KC-767 tanker deliveries and will turn its full attention to unsurpassed customer support of the KC-767 tanker aircraft as they fly in operations for the security and sovereignty of both Italy and Japan, as well as ongoing NATO operations across the globe.
• V-22 Osprey -- The V-22 Osprey is a joint service multi-role combat aircraft that uses tiltrotor technology to combine the vertical performance of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed wing aircraft. This combination allows the V-22 to fill an operational niche no other aircraft can approach. The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has a current requirement for 360 MV-22s to perform combat assault and assault support missions, while the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) will field a fleet of 50 CV-22s configured for terrain-following, low-level, high-speed flight for long range special operations. More than 160 Osprey tiltrotors are currently in operation across 10 USMC and two AFSOC squadrons. The two services have together logged 16 successful combat, humanitarian, ship-based or Special Operations deployments since 2007. The worldwide Osprey fleet has amassed more than 130,000 flight hours, with nearly half of those hours logged in the past two years. Bell Boeing was awarded a five-year production contract for 167 aircraft in March 2008. Contract modifications have since increased the multiyear contract total to 174 aircraft. Bell Boeing submitted its proposal to the U.S. Navy for a second multiyear procurement contract for the production and delivery of 122 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft on July 29, 2011. Contract award is anticipated by December 2012.

Surveillance and Engagement:

• 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) -- The 737 AEW&C is a state-of-the-art system providing powerful airborne surveillance, communications and battle management. It can track airborne and maritime targets simultaneously and includes a self-defense capability, an advanced open system architecture and an identification friend or foe system. Five AEW&C aircraft have been delivered to Australia along with two to South Korea. Verification testing of the mission system for Turkey's first AEW&C platform is under way in the lab, on the ground and in flight. Delivery of the aircraft is anticipated by the end of 2012.
• Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) -- The E-3 707 AWACS represents the world's standard for airborne early warning systems. The E-3 fills the needs of both airborne surveillance and command and control (C2) for tactical and air defense forces. It provides a highly mobile, survivable surveillance and C2 platform. E-3 fleets are operated by the United States, NATO, the United Kingdom, France and Saudi Arabia. Japan operates a fleet of four E-767 AWACS aircraft.
• P-8A Poseidon/P-8I -- The P-8A Poseidon is a military derivative of the Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 designed to replace the U.S. Navy's fleet of P-3s. The P-8A will significantly improve the U.S. Navy's anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare capabilities, as well as armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The Navy in 2004 awarded Boeing a System Development and Demonstration contract for eight test vehicles. In 2008, Boeing began final assembly of the first P-8A. The program's three flight test aircraft completed their initial flights in 2009, and the first test aircraft, T1, entered the Navy's formal flight test program in fourth quarter 2009. Boeing in January 2011 received a $1.6 billion contract from the Navy for six low-rate initial production aircraft, along with spares, logistics and training devices. In November 2011, Boeing received a $1.7 billion award for an additional seven LRIP aircraft. Overall, the Navy plans to purchase 117 Boeing P-8As. In January 2009, the government of India selected the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, for its long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare mission. Under this contract, Boeing will deliver eight P-8I aircraft to India. The first P-8I for India made its initial flight on Sept. 28, 2011. Australia signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Navy in 2009 and will collaborate in Increment 2.

Missiles and Unmanned Airborne Systems:

• Harpoon Block II -- Harpoon Block II is the world's premier anti-ship missile system, featuring an autonomous, all-weather, over-the-horizon strike capability. It is ideal for both anti-ship and land-strike missions, even in crowded ports. These versatile weapons can be launched from aircraft, ships, submarines and even by mobile coastal defense vehicles.
• Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) -- JDAM is a low-cost guidance kit that converts existing unguided free-fall bombs into near precision-guided "smart" weapons. Boeing's modular design of JDAM offers affordable add-on capabilities, such as a laser sensor to create Laser JDAM for precise prosecution of moving, relocatable and maritime targets. JDAM Extended Range (JDAM ER) incorporates a low-cost wing set to triple JDAM's standoff range to greater than 40 miles. Boeing has delivered more than 230,000 JDAM tail kits on time and at cost since 1998.
• Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile (PAC-3) -- The PAC-3 Missile uses hit-to-kill technology to intercept and destroy tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hostile aircraft. The Boeing-built PAC-3 seeker acts as the missile's "eyes." By providing active guidance data to the missile, PAC-3 can acquire the target and ensure a kill through direct body-to-body impact.
• Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) -- SDB is a 250-pound class, near precision-guided weapon launched from a fighter, bomber or unmanned aircraft that can destroy targets from a range of greater than 40 miles and penetrate more than three feet of steel-reinforced concrete with reduced collateral damage. The SDB system improves sortie effectiveness by enabling carriage of four weapons on a single aircraft station. The Focused Lethality Munition variant incorporates technologies for precision engagements with ultra-low collateral damage. Leveraging the combat-proven success of Laser JDAM, the same laser sensor has been added to create Laser SDB for moving, relocatable and maritime targets of opportunity.
• Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM ER) -- SLAM ER is a combat-proven, all-weather, over-the-horizon, precision strike missile. The ER variant is an affordable upgrade to the baseline SLAM, incorporating planar wings to improve range and aerodynamic performance, and an improved warhead to increase penetration and lethality against hardened targets.
• A160T Hummingbird -- The A160T Hummingbird is a long-endurance, runway independent unmanned rotorcraft capable of multiple missions. It is scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army in June 2012.
• ScanEagle -- A low-cost, long-endurance, autonomous unmanned air system, ScanEagle is used by military customers around the world to loiter over trouble spots and provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data or communications relay. It has accumulated 570,000 combat flight hours, providing more than seven years of uninterrupted service to the U.S. Department of Defense, and has supported civil applications in Australia in 2011.
• Integrator -- Integrator is an autonomous unmanned air system offering an industry-leading payload capacity to enable the capture of high-resolution imagery in day and nighttime conditions and/or the rapid integration of a unique customer-required payload package.
• Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) -- STUAS will provide persistent maritime and land-based tactical Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RSTA) data collection and dissemination capabilities to the warfighter. STUAS has a greater performance capability with a significantly larger payload, mass, volume and power than ISR services available in theater today. Boeing subsidiary Insitu was awarded the STUAS EMD contract in July 2010 by NAVAIR. An early operational capability decision was made by the customer in June 2011 to deploy two systems.

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Global Services & Support

Global Services & Support provides best-value mission readiness to its customers through total support solutions. Operating at 264 locations worldwide, this global business sustains aircraft and systems with a full spectrum of products and services, including aircraft maintenance, modification and upgrades; supply chain management; engineering and logistics support; pilot and maintenance training, and other defense and government services. GS&S offers a unique capability in the market, being able to integrate all elements of sustainment within a single organization.

Integrated Logistics:

• The Integrated Logistics division comprises a full array of coordinated logistics services that address the life cycle of aircraft and weapon systems. Online, real-time, integrated information systems provide reliability and demand forecasting, total asset visibility, maintenance information and field data to improve aircraft availability and reduce costs. This approach offers a single point of accountability during the service life of a product. As a result, mission effectiveness and readiness are improved while the total cost of ownership is reduced.

Maintenance, Modification and Upgrades:

• The Maintenance, Modifications & Upgrades division operates at centers strategically located throughout the United States, providing high-quality, rapid and affordable aircraft services for military customers. One of these centers is co-located with an active Air Force base, while the others are housed at former military installations closed through the Base Closing and Realignment process. All contribute significantly to the economies of their respective communities. The Boeing philosophy is to work in close partnership with existing military depots, providing complementary capabilities for the nation's support infrastructure. Working together, our goal is to ensure readiness for the warfighter.

Training Systems and Government Services:

• Boeing provides a full range of military training capabilities and customer-focused solutions to directly enable mission readiness. Worldwide, the division has more than 2,800 employees dedicated to delivering cutting edge training solutions, custom software development, engineering and technical services. Our years of expertise, global infrastructure, research facilities and customer knowledge help ensure the very highest levels of readiness for our customers.

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Network and Space Systems

This business includes electronic and mission systems; information solutions; strategic missile & defense systems; satellites and other space and intelligence systems; and space exploration activities. Key programs include:

Electronic & Mission Systems:

• Argon ST -- Argon ST is a wholly owned subsidiary acquired by Boeing in 2010. Argon specializes in state-of-the-art signals intelligence (SIGINT) sensors; reconnaissance, communication, navigation, geolocation and other systems, system-of-systems and network-of-network solutions; and analysis and information integration services. It is based in Fairfax, Va.
• Digital Receiver Technology (DRT) -- DRT is a Germantown, Md.-based subsidiary acquired by Boeing in 2008. DRT develops hardware and software products for wireless surveillance and tracking equipment for federal government and law enforcement customers.
• Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Force Protection (ISR&FP) -- ISR&FP focuses on ISR and specialized warfare, including airborne and tactical ISR.

Information Solutions:

• Secure Infrastructure Group -- This organization focuses on delivering information and cybersecurity, physical and global security, and information services capabilities. It includes: Narus, a leading provider of real-time network traffic and analytics software acquired by Boeing in 2010; Boeing's Border Security Solution, such as the current effort to secure the southwest border of the U.S. with Integrated Fixed Towers and a Common Operating Picture; and the Cyber Engagement Center, a collaborative, working operations facility that opened in 2011.
• Intelligence Systems Group -- Intelligence Systems Group is the primary customer-facing organization for the U.S. Intelligence Community. It brings together a nationwide team to support customers with key competencies in cross-domain information sharing, geospatial intelligence, global situational awareness, intelligence planning, data query and analysis, and wireless device technologies.
• Mission Operations -- Mission Operations integrates, deploys, transitions, operates and sustains satellite ground systems across the intelligence community, Department of Defense, civil and commercial customers. Capabilities include operations and sustainment of advanced intelligence, navigation, communication, and space science systems such as Iridium Satellite Communications, the Global Positioning System and national security programs.

Strategic Missile & Defense Systems:

• Arrow -- Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have teamed to co-produce the Arrow Weapon System (AWS), the first operational national missile defense system for the Israel Ministry of Defense (MoD). The AWS program demonstrates The Boeing Company's commitment to developing international missile defense partnerships around the globe.
• Directed Energy Systems (DES) -- Key DES programs include the High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD), the Free Electron Laser (FEL) and the Mk 38 Tactical Laser Weapon System. Boeing is investing its own money in several additional efforts that promise to equip the warfighter with directed energy capability.
• Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) -- Boeing is prime contractor for GMD, the United States' only operational defense against long-range ballistic missiles. Boeing oversees development, testing , deployment , operations and sustainment of the ground-based system to detect, track and destroy long-range ballistic missiles in their midcourse phase of flight.
• Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB) -- SM-3 IIB is a key component of the Department of Defense's Phased Adaptive Approach for missile defense in Europe. Currently in the concept definition and planning phase, this program will provide advanced capability against emerging longer-range ballistic missile threats.
• Strategic Missile Systems -- Boeing has been a key contractor for the Air Force in land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) systems for more than 50 years. Areas of expertise include full lifecycle support, repair and sustaining engineering, systems engineering, strategic guidance systems, ground systems, trainers, secure codes, field deployment, missile integration and systems testing. Boeing recently completed an upgrade to the guidance electronics for the Minuteman III system, critical to extending Minuteman's deterrent capability through 2020.

Space and Intelligence Systems:

• Global Positioning System IIF (GPS) -- Boeing is under contract to build 12 GPS IIF satellites for the U.S. military's satellite-based radio navigation system that permits land, sea and airborne users to instantaneously and precisely determine their three-dimensional position, velocity and time 24 hours a day, under all weather conditions, anywhere in the world.
• Commercial Satellites -- Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) de México ordered an end-to-end turnkey satellite communications system that will become Mexico's next-generation telecommunications system. Boeing will design and deliver a complete system. Boeing is also under contract to build satellites to replenish and extend the global communications services of Intelsat and Inmarsat, two of the world's largest satellite services providers. For Intelsat, Boeing is building four 702MP satellites -- designated Intelsat 21, Intelsat 22, Intelsat 27 and a spacecraft yet to be named -- that will refresh and add new telecommunications capacity to Intelsat's global satellite fleet, distributing video, data and voice services from Asia and Africa to the Americas and Europe. For Inmarsat, Boeing is under contract for three 702HP satellites that will provide new services including maritime, aeronautical, and land mobile broadband communication services in the Ka-band for a wide variety of commercial and government users. Boeing also will provide L- and Ka-band capacity services to key users within the U.S. government through a distribution partnership with Inmarsat. Boeing is also under contract for two geomobile satellites for LightSquared, formerly known as SkyTerra LP . The first was launched in 2010 and a second is scheduled for a 2012 launch.
• Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) -- Boeing is currently building three satellites in the TDRS series, TDRS K, L, and M. The first will be launched in 2012. The satellites incorporate a modern design based on flight-proven performance. The three previous TDRS satellites were based on Boeing 702HP-class electronics, which are still the standard for the newest spacecraft Boeing is building today. Boeing is also upgrading NASA's TDRS system ground terminals.
• Boeing Commercial Satellite Services -- Boeing Commercial Satellite Services (BCSS) was formed in 2011. BCSS develops innovative solutions for satellite customers by marketing commercial satellite telecommunications services to the U.S. government and other satellite users. The initial target market for BCSS is the U.S. government; future plans include teaming with commercial satellite operators to provide other types of customized communications capacity, including services to foreign governments.
• Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) -- WGS offers greatly increased communications capacity, coverage and operational flexibility for the warfighter. The WGS constellation , which is comprised of nine high-capacity communications satellites, with options for three more, is alleviating severe bandwidth shortfalls and reducing reliance on costly commercial SATCOM.

Space Exploration:

• Exploration Launch Systems -- Exploration Launch Systems supports NASA on the strategy and policy of Space Exploration programs through the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala., including development of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the nation's new human-rated heavy lift transportation system that will enable the human exploration of destinations beyond Earth orbit, such as the moon, asteroids and Mars. In late 2011, NASA executed a contract modification that transferred Upper Stage Production and Instrument Unit Avionics contracts to a single contract for design and development of the cryogenic stages for the SLS. Boeing is providing core stages and avionics unit design and development support to NASA at MSFC, with final manufacturing at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. First launch is scheduled for 2017. ELS also provides overall leadership and integration of programs and functions in Huntsville for Space Exploration.
• Launch Products and Services -- Boeing Launch Products and Services is responsible for two Boeing subsidiaries: Boeing Commercial Space Company (BCSC) and Boeing Launch Services. BCSC provides payload accommodations and related services to Sea Launch, a commercial launch provider of communications satellites, which Boeing developed with the current owner, RSC Energia. Boeing Launch Services markets and provides Delta launch services to the commercial community. Boeing procures these services from ULA.
• Checkout, Assembly and Payload Processing Services (CAPPS) -- Boeing's Florida Operations at Kennedy Space Center serves as NASA's prime contractor for the Checkout, Assembly and Payload Processing Services (CAPPS) contract, conducting payload processing, mission cargo preparations, testing for launch vehicle compatibility, and operation/maintenance of associated facilities and ground systems.
• Commercial Crew Development -- Boeing has earned two Space Act Agreement awards to support NASA's thrust into commercial crew efforts toward destinations in low Earth orbit. Boeing's Commercial Crew Transportation System (CCTS) includes the CST-100 spacecraft, launch services and ground systems. The CST-100 is a reusable capsule-shaped spacecraft that has a crew module and service module. The CCTS will provide safe, affordable access to the International Space Station and other destinations in low Earth orbit, and will enable NASA to focus on deep space exploration missions.
• International Space Station (ISS) -- As the prime contractor, Boeing is responsible for the design, development, construction and integration of the ISS and assisting NASA in operating the orbital outpost. Boeing built all of the station's major U.S. elements. Boeing also is responsible for integrating the systems, procedures and components of 15 participating countries in this worldwide enterprise. Today, Boeing performs much of the sustaining engineering for the ISS.

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Boeing Phantom Works

Boeing Phantom Works is responsible for capabilities-based development and capture of advanced programs in support of the three Boeing Defense, Space & Security businesses. To accomplish this, Phantom Works partners with Boeing Research & Technology, leverages enterprise innovation, and sources "best-of-industry" capabilities to deliver integrated, affordable solutions that meet customer needs and address emerging market opportunities. Its objective is to create and transition high-value opportunities that enhance Boeing Defense, Space & Security's core businesses and extend Boeing's market presence into new frontiers.

Phantom Works consists of four business elements:

Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft:

• ABMA provides solutions for the transformational defense forces of the future. Programs include the Phantom Ray unmanned technology demonstrator; Phantom Eye, a HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) unmanned Persistent ISR demonstrator; pursuit of the Next Generation Bomber for the U.S. Air Force, and the Advanced Navy Strike Fighter weapon system and the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike program for the U.S. Navy. Capability areas include Advanced Mobility Systems and Advanced Weapons programs.

Advanced Network & Space Systems:

• AN&SS is developing next-generation network capabilities and space systems for defense and civilian applications. Program areas include Advanced Network & Tactical Systems; Advanced Information Solutions; Advanced Strategic Missile & Defense Systems; Advanced Space & Intelligence Systems; Advanced Integration Capabilities and Advanced Space Exploration. Capability areas include networked capabilities, space capabilities, and systems capabilities.

Advanced Services:

• Advanced Services is responsible for driving the development of new businesses with innovative capabilities and transitioning those businesses to the appropriate business unit.

Strategy Development & Experimentation:

• Phantom Works' Strategy Development & Experimentation element is designed to provide the world's premier family-of-systems experimentation capability and perform customer-focused operator-in-the-loop experimentation. The SD&E organization also provides network-enabling support to the enterprise and customers by coordinating and integrating the company's worldwide array of modeling, simulation and analysis resources as well as their related experimentation activities. Facilities include the Boeing Centers in Anaheim, Calif., Crystal City and the Virtual Warfare Center in St. Louis, The Boeing Systems Analysis Laboratory in Australia, The Portal (jointly with QinetiQ) in the United Kingdom, and a growing number of facilities that support customer requirements. The Boeing Laboratory Network (LabNet) connects company labs with government, commercial and civilian labs domestically and internationally.

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Joint Ventures

• United Launch Alliance (ULA) -- Formed in December 2006, ULA is a joint venture organization created to provide reliable, cost-efficient spacecraft launch services for the U.S. government. ULA combines the successful Boeing Delta and Lockheed Martin Atlas expendable launch vehicle programs to offer U.S. government launch customers a variety of launch vehicle and payload accommodation options. U.S. government launch customers include the Department of Defense, NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office and other organizations. ULA program management, engineering, test and mission support functions are headquartered in Denver. Manufacturing, assembly and integration operations are located in Decatur, Ala., and Harlingen, Texas. Launch operations are located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
• United Space Alliance (USA) -- United Space Alliance, established in 1995 as a Limited Liability Company equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is a leader in space operations, offering extensive experience in space launch and recovery operations; mission planning and control; flight hardware processing; spaceflight training; on-orbit assembly, payload deployment and servicing; rendezvous/proximity operations and docking; large-scale integration and sustaining engineering. USA serves as NASA's prime contractor for the space shuttle and provides operations services for the International Space Station. USA employs more than 10,000 people in Texas, Florida and Alabama.

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January 2012

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