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Company Profile:
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Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft. With additional capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, rocket engines, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems, the company’s reach extends to customers in 145 countries. In terms of sales, Boeing is the United States’ largest exporter.
Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. The company continues to expand its product line and services to meet emerging customer needs. The broad range of capabilities includes creating new, more efficient members of its commercial airplane family; integrating military platforms, defense systems and the warfighter through network-centric operations; creating advanced technology solutions; providing broadband connectivity on moving platforms including airplanes; and arranging innovative customer-financing solutions.
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Boeing employs more than 159,000 people in 48 American states and 67 countries, with major operations in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, southern California and St. Louis. Total company revenues for 2004 were $52.5 billion.
Boeing is organized into four business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing Capital Corporation and Connexion by Boeing(SM). Supporting these units is the Shared Services Group, which provides a broad range of services to Boeing worldwide, and Boeing Technology, which helps develop, acquire, apply and protect innovative technologies and processes.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Boeing has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for more than 40 years. With the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas in 1997, Boeing's legacy of leadership in commercial jets, joined with the lineage of Douglas airplanes, gives the combined company a 70-year heritage of leadership in commercial aviation. Today, the main commercial products are the 737, 747, 767 and 777 families of airplanes and the Boeing Business Jet. New product development efforts are focused on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a super-efficient airplane that is expected to be in service in 2008. The company has nearly 12,000 commercial jetliners in service worldwide, which is roughly 75 percent of the world fleet. Through Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, the company provides unsurpassed, around-the-clock technical support to help operators maintain their airplanes in peak operating condition, and Commercial Aviation Services, which offers a full range of world-class engineering, modification, logistics and information services to its global customer base, which includes the world's passenger and cargo airlines, as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities. Boeing also trains maintenance and flight crews in the 100-seat-and-above airliner market through Alteon, the world's largest and most comprehensive provider of airline training.
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
While commonly recognized as a commercial airplane producer, Boeing is also the world’s second-largest defense company. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems provides end-to-end services for large-scale systems that combine sophisticated communication networks with air-, land-, sea- and space-based platforms for global military,government and commercial customers. The company offers an extraordinary range of defense and space systems products and services. It designs, produces, modifies and supports fighters, bombers, transports, rotorcraft, aerial refuelers, missiles and munitions and is on the leading edge of military technology through its unmanned systems development efforts. Integrated Defense Systems also supports the U.S. government on several programs of national significance, including the Missile Defense Agency's Ground-Based Midcourse Defense program, the National Reconnaissance Office's Future Imagery Architecture, the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program and NASA's International Space Station. The company has become the systems integrator for several new programs, including the U.S. Navy's Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft Program, the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems and Joint Tactical Radio Systems, the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals for the Department of Defense, and the Explosive Detection Systems for the Department of Transportation.
Boeing Capital Corporation
Boeing Capital Corporation is a global provider of financing solutions. Working closely with Commercial Airplanes and Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing Capital Corporation arranges, structures and/or provides financing to facilitate the sale and delivery of Boeing commercial and military aircraft, satellites and launch vehicles. With a portfolio of approximately $10 billion, Boeing Capital Corporation combines Boeing’s financial strength and global reach, detailed knowledge of Boeing customers and equipment, and the expertise of a seasoned group of financial professionals.
Connexion by Boeing
Connexion by Boeing is a mobile information services provider revolutionizing the way people on the move communicate, inform and entertain themselves. It does so by providing high-speed, two-way Internet-based connectivity to aircraft in flight. Connexion by Boeing currently serves two important market segments: commercial aircraft operators and their passengers as well as executive aircraft, including operators of private and government executive jets. Using laptops or personal digital assistants (PDAs), passengers can use secure high-speed access to the Internet, personal and business e-mail accounts and company intranets. They will also be able to send and receive attachments and view entertainment - all at DSL-like speeds. The service also brings value to aircraft operators, enabling them to use Connexion by Boeing's extraordinary bandwidth to obtain operational efficiencies, improve customer service and enhance security. Leading commercial airlines including Lufthansa German Airlines, Japan Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), ANA and Singapore Airlines are currently introducing the Connexion by Boeing service on major international routes. In addition, Korea Airlines and Asiana have announced plans to equip their long-range fleets with the service. The revolutionary service is also available to the executive services market in the United States, including operators of private and government aircraft. A service offering for the maritime market is also under consideration.
Shared Services Group
Shared Services Group allows business units to focus on profitable growth by providing the infrastructure services required to run their global operations. The group provides a broad range of services worldwide, including computing and network operations, e-business, facilities services, employee benefits and programs, security, transportation, and the purchase of all non-production goods and services. It also gives direction to safety, health and environmental planning and offers comprehensive travel services to Boeing employees and corporate customers through the Boeing Travel Management Company. In addition, Shared Services Group manages the sale and acquisition of all leased and owned property through the Boeing Realty Company. By integrating services, Shared Services Group delivers greater value, creates "lean" processes and operations, leverages buying power and simplifies access to services.
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