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Selected Programs, Products and Services
Boeing Defense, Space & Security continued
*Orders and deliveries are as of December 31, 2014
Strategic Missile Systems
Minuteman III ICBM
Boeing has provided intercontinental ballistic
missile (ICBM) system support to the U.S. Air
Force since 1958, and is the original equipment
manufacturer of the ICBM ground and guidance
subsystems. Boeing innovations have improved
each generation of the Minuteman ICBM, increas-
ing range and improving accuracy to ensure a
safe, secure and effective land-based nuclear
deterrent. Boeing helps sustain the ICBM force
by supporting flight tests and training, as well
as designing, testing, modernizing and repairing
ICBM systems and components. In early 2015,
the U.S. Air Force awarded more than $51 million
to Boeing to provide sustaining engineering
support for ICBM guidance systems.
Training Systems and
Government Services (TSGS)
Boeing TSGS provides domestic and international
customers with a full range of training capabilities
and logistics- and asset-management solutions.
Boeing designs and develops more than 350
trainers for 24 aircraft platforms, using the latest
technologies to ensure that students have
relevant and realistic learning experiences. The
Constant Resolution Visual System brings a new
level of reality to flight simulators by immersing
pilots in 360 degrees of high-resolution imagery.
TSGS includes subsidiaries Tapestry Solutions
and Miro Technologies.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) Using the combined assets of the Boeing Delta
and Lockheed Martin Atlas launch vehicle pro-
grams (including mission management, support,
engineering, vehicle production, test and launch
operations, and people), ULA’s primary mission
is to provide satellite launch services to the U.S.
government. The joint venture also launches
commercial missions on behalf of Boeing Launch
Services. ULA launched 14 successful missions
in 2014.
Unmanned Airborne Systems
Unmanned Little Bird H-6U
Boeing’s unmanned programs provide battlefield,
logistics and surveillance options, including
the Unmanned Little Bird H-6U and the S-100
produced by Schiebel. Insitu, a wholly owned
Boeing subsidiary, designs, develops and manu-
factures high-performance, cost-effective tactical
unmanned vehicles such as ScanEagle and
Integrator. Boeing and Insitu’s technology and
related support systems provide important tools
that deliver critical data or support strike capacity
for the warfighter.
V-22 Osprey Produced under a 50-50 strategic alliance
between Boeing and Bell Helicopter, a Textron
Company, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor combines the
speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft with the
vertical flight performance of a helicopter. Bell
Boeing is executing a second multiyear contract
that includes 101 aircraft manufactured over
five years (93 MV-22s for the U.S. Marine Corps
and eight CV-22s for the U.S. Air Force Special
Operations Command) valued at $6.5 billion.
This will bring the fleet near to the full program
of record: 360 MV-22s for the Marines and 50
CV-22s for the Air Force. Forty-eight V-22s for the
U.S. Navy remain part of the program of 459 but
are currently unfunded.
2014 deliveries: 29 fuselages*
Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)
As the U.S. Department of Defense’s highest-
capacity military communications satellite
system, WGS addresses the military’s need for
high data-rate communications. All three Block I
and three Block II satellites have been launched
into orbit and are performing their missions.
The Block II series includes enhancements that
provide additional bandwidth required by airborne
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
platforms. Starting with WGS-8, technology
enhancements will nearly double each satellite’s
bandwidth capability. The seventh, eighth, ninth
and tenth WGS satellites are currently in produc-
tion, with WGS-7 set to launch in 2015.
Space Launch System (SLS) The SLS is NASA’s new human-rated heavy-lift
transportation program that will enable the
human exploration of destinations beyond Earth
orbit. Boeing has developed an innovative,
low-cost manufacturing approach for low-rate
production of the cryogenic core stages for this
robust rocket, as well as the avionics instrumen-
tation, to ensure affordability and sustainability.
Currently on contract for the design and develop-
ment of these elements, Boeing is working with
NASA to advance the design and production of
the rocket that will lead up to planned operational
capability by 2018.