Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
From Free net encyclopedia
Image:Boeing-Logo.svg Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS), based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a unit of The Boeing Company, responsible for defense and aerospace products. It a consolidated group consisting of the following acquired companies:
- Boeing Helicopters, formerly Boeing Vertol and Piasecki Helicopter
- Hughes Satellite Systems
- Hughes Helicopters
- The St. Louis-based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company
- The former North American Aviation division of Rockwell
The group is being restructured into three subdivisions:
- Precision Engagement and Mobility System, responsible for fighter aircraft, airlifters, aerial refuelling tankers, helicopters, and airborne warfare systems. This group will be headquartered in northern Virginia, and led by John Lockard.
- Networks and Space Systems, responsible for Boeing's Future Combat Systems program, rocket launch systems, missile defense, satellites, and other networking services. This group will be headquartered in northern Virginia, and led by Roger Krone.
- Support Systems, responsible for MRO, material management, training systems, international business operations, and advanced logistic systems. This group will be headquartered in St. Louis, and led by Pat Finneran.
- IDS also controls the Phantom Works research group, inherited from McDonnell Douglas, which will report directly to IDS chief Jim Albaugh.
Contents |
[edit]
Products
[edit]
Bombers
- Y1B-9
- B-17 Flying Fortress
- B-29 Superfortress
- B-47 Stratojet
- B-50 Superfortress
- B-52 Stratofortress
- B-1B Lancer (Rockwell)
- B-2 Spirit (in contractor team under Northrop Grumman)
[edit]
Helicopters
- AH-64 Apache
- CH-46 Sea Knight
- CH-47 Chinook
- V-22 Osprey (with Bell Helicopter)
- RAH-66 Comanche (with Sikorsky), cancelled light attack helicopter
[edit]
Tactical fighters
- P-26 Peashooter
- F-4 Phantom II (McDonnell Douglas)
- F-15 Eagle (McDonnell Douglas)
- AV-8A Harrier (British Aerospace)
- AV-8B Harrier II (McDonnell Douglas/British Aerospace)
- Harrier GR9 (BAe/McDonnell Douglas)
- F/A-18 Hornet (McDonnell Douglas)
See also: Blue Angels aerobatic team - F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
- F-22 Raptor (subcontractor with Lockheed Martin)
- X-32, Boeing's losing entry for the Joint Strike Fighter competition
[edit]
Tankers and transports
- KC-135 Stratotanker
- KC-10 Extender (McDonnell Douglas)
- KC-767, replacement for KC-135
- C-22
- C-32A Executive Transport
- C-40 Clipper
- YC-14
- YC-15 (McDonnell Douglas)
- C-17 Globemaster III (McDonnell Douglas)
- VC-25A ("Air Force One")
Image:Usaf.e3sentry.750pix.jpg
[edit]
Surveillance and other military
- Airborne Laser
- EC-135
- OC-135 Open Skies
- RC-135 Rivet Joint
- E-3 Sentry (an AWACS surveillance aircraft)
- E-4B (Advanced Airborne Command Post)
- E-6 TACAMO
- E-8 Joint STARS, ground battle management
- E-10 MC2A (successor to the E-3, E-8, EC-135)
- T-43
- T-45 Goshawk
- Project Wedgetail (AEW&C)
- Multimission Maritime Aircraft (ASW)
- X-36 (Tailless Agility Research Aircraft)
[edit]
Unmanned aerial vehicles
[edit]
Missiles
- BOMARC
- AGM-48 Skybolt (Douglas)
- AGM-84 Harpoon (McDonnell Douglas)
- AGM-86 ALCM Cruise Missile
- AGM-114 Hellfire (McDonnell Douglas)
- BGM-109 Tomahawk (McDonnell Douglas)
- Brimstone
[edit]
Space launch and exploration
Boeing Launch Services Inc. (BLS) is Boeing's commercial launch service provider.
- X-20 Dyna-Soar
- X-40
- S-IC first stage (Boeing), S-II second stage (North American Aviation) and S-IVB third stage (Douglas Aircraft Company)
- Apollo Command/Service Module (North American Aviation)
- Crew Return Vehicle
- Inertial Upper Stage
- International Space Station
- Solar Orbit Transfer Vehicle
- Space Shuttle (Rockwell)
- Delta rocket (aka Thor-Delta)
- Delta II
- Delta III
- Delta IV EELV
- Sea Launch (with Energia, Aker Kværner, and Yuzhnoe)
- X-37
[edit]
Satellites
- Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
- GPS Satellites (Rockwell)
- Integrated Solar Upper Stage
- Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Weapon System
- XSS Micro-satellite
- 376 (formerly Hughes Satellite Systems - HSS)
- 601 (formerly HSS)
- 702 (formerly HSS)
Image:Pegasus class hydrofoil.jpg
[edit]
Other
[edit]
Other divisions
- Phantom Works
- Boeing Satellite Systems, formerly a unit of Hughes Electronics
- United Launch Alliance (with Lockheed Martin, subject to US Government approval as of 01/2006)
- United Space Alliance (with Lockheed Martin)
- Sea Launch (40%)
[edit]
Facilities
- Decatur, Alabama
- Mesa, Arizona
- El Segundo, California
- Palmdale, California
- Long Beach, California
- Macon, Georgia
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Wichita, Kansas
- Ridley Park, Pennsylvania
- Houston, Texas
|
Lists of Aircraft | Aircraft manufacturers | Aircraft engines | Aircraft engine manufacturers Airports | Airlines | Air forces | Aircraft weapons | Missiles | Timeline of aviation |