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Cover story
Chopper Toppers
While the general public might associate Boeing with fixed-wing aircraft, the company has a successful defense rotorcraft business. Here's what the company has done to make itself a leader in this market.
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Main feature
A number of reasons
Three Boeing facilities—Exmouth, Australia; Everett, Wash.; and Portland, Ore.—have earned ISO 14001 certification. Here’s why this internationally recognized standard is important to Boeing’s efforts to improve its environmental performance—and how Lean+ fits into this effort.
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Commercial Airplanes
We see the light
Thanks to a new tool involving a system of networked lasers and computer programs, the task of painting jetliner liveries at the Everett, Wash., paint hangar has become easier and more accurate. Also in BCA coverage this month: What makes the Boeing Research Aerodynamic Icing Tunnel a unique facility at Boeing; what teams at Boeing Fabrication Auburn Machining/Emergent Operations are doing to avoid waste and rework; and much more.
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Integrated Defense Systems
The right connections
With several milestones on tap for 2008, Boeing is accelerating its activities in developing and delivering the cutting-edge Distributed Mission Operations training network for the U.S. Air Force. This work has invigorated the Boeing team supporting this effort. Also in IDS coverage: A Fort Walton Beach, Fla., team keeps U.S. Air Force Special Operations Forces aircraft ready for missions; the KC-10 Contractor Logistics Support program in San Antonio delivers its first “paperless” aircraft; and much more.
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Special features
Fulfilling everyone's potential
Leaders “bring out 100 percent of their people’s potential as well as their own,” Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney told attendees at the recent annual Global Diversity and EEO Compliance Summit. Here’s a look at the happenings and lessons shared at this gathering, which took place last month.
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