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ONE IN A MILLION

The fleet of C-17 Globemaster III military airlifters recently reached 1 million hours of flight. Larry West (left), a liaison planner with the C-17 program in Long Beach, Calif., is among the many C-17 teammates who are proud of this achievement: "I love the work, the people (I work with) and our commitment to delivering a good product to the U.S. Air Force." Read more about the million-hour mission--and Long Beach's reaction--inside.
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THE POWER OF THE POOL

Many donations can add up to big support. That's what makes the Employees Community Fund a powerful way of providing help to the communities where Boeing employees live and work. Here are some examples of how this support has helped organizations in these locations.
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INTEGRATED DEFENSE SYSTEMS

PROTECTING NATIONAL SECRETS

There's not much different about Boeing employees who work on classified programs, except for one thing: They can't tell you what they do on the job. Here's a look at what it's like to be on a classified program, where people are on the front lines of U.S. security.
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PERFECT BALANCE
Combine the MH-47 Chinook with the latest in technology and you get Boeing’s entry for the U.S. Air Force Combat Search And Rescue aircraft competition.FULL STORY >>

ANOTHER PERFECT SCORE
As a sign of how well Boeing-built hardware and software are operating on the International Space Station, Boeing recently earned its sixth straight 100 percent score determination for on-orbit performance from NASA.
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COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES

WIDEBODIES IN MOTION

As part of a Lean initiative at the Boeing factory in Renton, Wash., 15 teams built "current state" maps to chart the process a part or system endures before going on an airplane. The first of these 15 teams has built a "future state" map that shows what its process would look like if it were streamlined.
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Arthur Holm prepares a Next-Generation 737 for delivery

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MAINTAINING A WINNER
When the 5,000th 737 rolled out of the Renton, Wash., factory in January, it bore a strong resemblance to the first twinjet built nearly four decades ago.FULL STORY >>

THEY'RE TEAMMATES, TOO
Commercial Airplanes' Supplier Relations project aims to have suppliers better understand Boeing's production processes. That gives supplier partners more insight into Boeing's business requirements.
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THE E-ENABLED 787
Technologies such as electronic documents and wireless communications have become ubiquitous. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner will use these technologies to improve operational efficiencies, cut maintenance costs and improve the traveling experience for passengers.FULL STORY >>

FLYING THROUGH THE AGES
This month's delivery of the 156th and final Boeing 717 will mark the last commercial airplane built in the storied Long Beach, Calif., Douglas factory. Yet the Long Beach commercial jetliner legacy will live on.
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Rich Smoski, vice president of Finance Transformation

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FOCUS ON FINANCE

CLOSING IN ON A BETTER PROCESS

The quarterly closing process turns loads of data into a picture of Boeing's financial position. Thanks to the improvement known as Finance Transformation, this process took only five days in the first quarter of 2006--much less than the month it used to take.
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			May 2006

			Volume 05, Issue 1