October 2006
Volume 05, Issue 6
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INTEGRATED DEFENSE SYSTEMS

They stand for Service

Boeing Service Company works to successfully maintain and sustain its customers' systems. It handles jobs as varied as tasking communications satellites to readying payloads for launch into space to maintaining classified government facilities.

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Good things come in small packages

Boeing is developing an ultra-low-power spacecraft called CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1). It fits in a lunch box and weighs less than three pounds, but it can perform more than 300 million instructions per second with just one of its four microcontrollers.

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 Good things come in small packages Jack Byers photo

Seen in space

Boeing is working on a vision and computer-graphics technology called augmented reality that can help reduce training requirements and communicate complicated technical instructions. That capability could support the training needs of future space missions.

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A great place to train

How long does it take to train a raw recruit to maintain the F-22 Raptor? A state-of-the-art "schoolhouse" currently under construction at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, will pack the equivalent of a two-year college program into four busy months.

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 A great place to train U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Eric T. Sheler

Tried and true

Boeing is making implementation of the Program Management Best Practices—a management system for executing to plan, maximizing value and meeting customer expectations—a top priority.

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Let's see how this works

The capabilities of Future Combat Systems (FCS)—an integral component of the U.S. Army's modernization—recently were demonstrated for the first time in a realistic operational environment.

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 Keeping it 'clean' Kevin Flynn photo