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10
Customers rely on Boeing to
deliver best-of-industry solutions
to complex and evolving mission
requirements.
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
won nine out of 11 major competitions
it entered in 2007, validating our
focus on the enduring needs of our
customers and offering solutions that
address current and future require-
ments. We are expanding our diverse
portfolio of production programs, new
capabilities and world-class support,
using deep customer insight and a
capabilities-based organization that
combines the best of Boeing with the
best of global industry.
Customers reaffirmed Boeing’s value
as an integrator of complex technology
and systems through their high
customer-satisfaction ratings on major
programs such as Future Combat
Systems and Ground-based
Midcourse Defense. We positioned
Boeing for growth in a new business
area with work on U.S. border security
systems. We also enhanced our
competitiveness in space with major
contract wins to support NASA’s
Ares I program and to build the next
generation of Tracking and Data
Relay Satellites.
Even with fewer total aircraft deliveries,
we built impressive margins through
strong execution across all production
programs, including F/A-18E/F Super
Hornet, EA-18G, C-17, F-22 and
Apache. The first U.S. Army CH-47F
Chinook helicopters became opera-
tional, and the U.S. Marine Corps
deployed the first V-22 Ospreys to
Iraq. Our factories also supported
deliveries of C-17, Chinook, Apache
and F-15 to international customers.
Despite the impact of flattening
defense budgets and shifting priorities
on new development and follow-on
production, Boeing is growing by
providing U.S. and international
customers with operational readiness
through maintenance, operations,
upgrades, training and performance-
based logistics. Support work for non-
Boeing platforms was boosted with a
major contract win to re-wing more
than 240 U.S. Air Force A-10 aircraft.
A focus on productivity, cost re-
duction and low-risk, best-value
solutions increases competitive-
ness and grows our domestic
and international business.
Boeing employees are identifying and
implementing productivity improve-
ments that result in significant cost
savings. These savings directly affect
profitability and competitiveness, allow-
ing IDS to achieve record operating
earnings in 2007, while growing key
areas of our business.
Boeing is the only company in the
world with the organic capabilities
to address the broad range of our
global customers enduring needs.
Combining the best of Boeing
Commercial Airplanes and Integrated
Defense Systems is allowing us to
deliver commercial-derivative aircraft
to customers in the United States,
Australia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, India
and Korea. We are also leveraging our
unique global partnerships to compete
on international tactical aircraft, rotor-
craft and surveillance aircraft programs.
We will continue earning our cus-
tomers’ trust and confidence by
executing on our $72 billion back-
log as we anticipate and respond to
their evolving requirements with the
best that Boeing and the industry
have to offer.
With 100-percent test success in 2007, the Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense
team received exceptional performance evaluation ratings. An employee in Huntsville,
Alabama, prepares an engineering test unit that will be used on the GMD program.