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Company Name: The Boeing Company
Company Type: Boeing
Company Profile
Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer
of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing
designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles,
satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems.
As a major service provider to NASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and
International Space Station. The company also provides numerous military and
commercial airline support services. Boeing has customers in more than 90
countries around the world and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of
sales.
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, Boeing employs more than 150,000 people across the
United States and in 70 countries, with major operations in the Puget Sound area
of Washington State, southern California and St. Louis. Total company revenues
for 2006 were $61.5 billion.
Boeing is organized into two business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes and
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. Supporting these units is Boeing Capital
Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions, the Shared Services
Group, which provides a broad range of services to Boeing worldwide, and Boeing
Engineering, Operations & 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. Commercial Aviation
Services 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
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 year-end 2006 portfolio of approximately $8 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.
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.
Engineering, Operations & Technology
Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology supports Boeing's business units
and growth strategy by providing the right people, technologies, processes and
performance at the right time and in the right place across the company
worldwide. This strategy is delivered in various ways by the primary
organizational groups -- Phantom Works, Intellectual Property Management, and
Information Technology, and its leadership role in the Engineering, Operations,
Quality, and Information Technology process councils. Through all its
activities, Engineering, Operations & Technology helps ensure the future success
of Boeing by winning strategic new programs, providing innovative technology and
process solutions, transforming Boeing into a global network-centric enterprise,
enhancing and protecting the company's intellectual capital, and fostering a
culture of innovation.
About Company
Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider to NASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. The company also provides numerous military and commercial airline support services. Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries around the world and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales.
Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. We continue to expand our product line and services to meet emerging customer needs. Our broad range of capabilities includes creating new, more efficient members of our commercial airplane family; integrating military platforms, defense systems and the warfighter through network-centric operations; creating advanced technology solutions that reach across business units; e-enabling airplanes and providing connectivity on moving platforms; and arranging financing solutions for our customers.
Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 150,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries. This represents one of the most diverse, talented and innovative workforces anywhere. More than 83,800 of our people hold college degrees--including nearly 29,000 advanced degrees--in virtually every business and technical field from approximately 2,800 colleges and universities worldwide. Our enterprise also leverages the talents of hundreds of thousands more skilled people working for Boeing suppliers worldwide.
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