November 2008
Volume 07, Issue 07
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INTEGRATED DEFENSE SYSTEMS

Let's take a look

Thanks to its Joint Warfare Integrated Systems Assessment system, Integrated Defense Systems can realistically simulate for customers the effects of performance improvements or new hardware on warfighting systems. The JWISA also gives Boeing insight on forthcoming customer needs.

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Let's take a look RICHARD RAU/BOEING

On special assignment

Earlier this year, Boeing communicator Randy Jackson traveled to Iraq as an embedded journalist to document the programs and people of Boeing in this theater of war. Here are some of the sights Jackson saw during his trip.

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On special assignment Randy Jackson/Boeing

Staying on track

To streamline engineering response times, the PRIMER (Process Improvement in Engineering Response) team supporting Airborne Early Warning & Control created a solution that's boosted this developmental program's bottom line.

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Staying on trackMARIAN LOCKHART/BOEING

Hands across the water

This summer, sea trials for Boeing's new electronic attack aircraft, the EA-18G Growler, took place on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Here's an account of what it was like for Boeing employees on board the carrier supporting U.S. Navy personnel during the trials.

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Hands across the water Ron Bookout/Boeing

Rare air

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Robert Fisher, a veteran flight engineer, recently achieved a rare milestone by 10,000 flight hours. Most of these hours have come aboard the KC-10 Extender aircraft, built by Boeing heritage company McDonnell Douglas and now serviced by Boeing in San Antonio.

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Rare air U.S. AIR FORCE