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Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight
Terminals (FAB-T)
FAB-T is a key military program that enables users
to harness the power of information technology to
accelerate command-and-control decision support
with speed, security and precision. Boeing is under
contract with the U.S. Air Force to design and
develop a family of multimission-capable satellite
communications terminals to enable information
exchange among ground, air and space platforms.
In 2009, Boeing delivered the fi rst engineering
development models to the U.S. Air Force B-2
program to initiate platform integration and test
activities. Boeing also successfully conducted its
fi rst series of FAB-T fl ight tests. The tests were the
fi rst demonstration of FAB-T’s network-centric
ability to connect satellite, airborne and ground
assets in a realistic fl ight environment.
Global Positioning System (GPS) Since 1978, Boeing has delivered a total of 40 GPS
satellites to the U.S. Air Force and is under contract
to build 12 GPS Block IIF satellites, the next-
generation of GPS spacecraft that will deliver new
capabilities to the Air Force. Boeing will deliver the
fi rst IIF satellite in early 2010 to prepare for a
mid-2010 launch. In September 2009, Boeing
completed key ground tests on the space vehicle,
the ground-based control segment and user equip-
ment. Boeing also completed developmental system
testing on the GPS Operational Control Segment,
a ground system with improved security capabilities.
Global Services & Support Global Services & Support provides best-value
mission readiness to its customers through total
support solutions. The global business sustains
aircraft and systems with a full spectrum of
products and services, including aircraft mainte-
nance, modifi cation and upgrades; supply chain
management; engineering and logistics support;
pilot and maintenance training; and other defense
and government services. Its advanced division
explores emerging markets and logical adjacencies
to bring service and support capabilities to new
markets such as tactical wheeled vehicle support.
Global Services & Support’s international work has
major operations in Australia, the United Kingdom
and Saudi Arabia.
Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
GMD Interceptor SBX Radar
Boeing is the prime contractor for GMD, the
United States’ only operational defense against
long-range ballistic missiles. GMD has more than
20 interceptors deployed in underground silos at
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and Fort
Greely, Alaska. An integral element of the global
ballistic missile defense system, GMD also consists
of radars, including the Sea-based X-band radar,
other sensors, command-and-control facilities,
communications terminals and a 20,000-mile
fi ber-optic communications network. In December
2008, the GMD team successfully completed a
fl ight test that resulted in the intercept of a target
warhead. This end-to-end test of the GMD system
was the most realistic and comprehensive to date.
The test, GMD’s eighth intercept overall, was the
third using an interceptor with the same design and
capabilities as those protecting the United States.
Harpoon Harpoon, the world’s most successful anti-ship
missile, features autonomous, all-weather, over-the-
horizon capability. Harpoon Block II can execute
both land-strike and anti-ship missions. The
226.8-kilogram (500-pound) blast warhead delivers
lethal fi repower against a wide variety of land-
based targets, including coastal defense sites,
surface-to-air missile sites, exposed aircraft, port
or industrial facilities and ships in port. Currently,
28 U.S.-allied armed forces deploy Harpoon
missiles; 11 have Block II capability. In 2009,
Boeing delivered the fi rst Harpoon Block II missiles
with an updated Guidance Control Unit that will
facilitate possible future missile enhancements.
2009 deliveries: 31
Intelsat Satellites Four Boeing-built 702B communications satellites
— designated Intelsat 21, Intelsat 22 and two
spacecraft yet to be named — will refresh and add
new telecommunications capacity to Intelsat’s
global satellite fl eet. These new satellites are the
fi rst in the Boeing 702B satellite series and will
distribute video, data and voice services from
Asia and Africa to the Americas and Europe. The
702B provides the high-capability features of the
fl ight-proven Boeing 702, but with a substantially
updated satellite bus structure and simplifi ed
propulsion system. Intelsat 22 is scheduled to
launch in 2012. It will carry an Ultra-High
Frequency government-hosted payload to provide
service to the Australian Defence Force.
International Space Station (ISS) The fi rst two modules of ISS were launched and
joined in orbit in 1998. The station has been
inhabited continuously since the fi rst crew arrived
in November 2000. When completed in 2010, ISS
will weigh almost one million pounds and will have a
habitable volume of 425 cubic meters (15,000 cubic
feet), about the size of a fi ve-bedroom home. ISS
crews conduct research to support human explora-
tion of space and to take advantage of space as a
laboratory for scientifi c, technological and commercial
research. Boeing is the prime contractor to NASA
for the ISS. In addition to designing and building
all the major U.S. elements, Boeing is also re-
sponsible for ensuring the successful integration
of any new hardware and software — including
components from international partners — and
providing sustaining engineering work for the ISS.
The ISS is the largest, most complex international
scientifi c project in history.
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) JDAM guidance kits convert existing unguided
warheads into the most capable, cost-effective and
combat-proven air-to-surface weapons, revolution-
izing warfare. JDAM gives U.S. and allied forces
the capability to reliably defeat multiple high-value
targets in a single pass, in any weather, with
minimal risk to the aircraft. More than 210,000
JDAMs have been delivered. Laser JDAM provides
a modular laser sensor kit that is easily installed in
the fi eld to the front of existing JDAM weapons,
adding mission fl exibility to prosecute targets of
opportunity, including mobile targets.
2009 deliveries: 8,645