October 2010
Volume 09, Issue 06
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DEFENSE, SPACE & SECURITY

Key code

Starting next year, a team led by Boeing is scheduled to equip the U.S. Army’s first infantry Brigade Combat Team with new capabilities that include unmanned ground and aerial vehicles. But the real star is the software. And making that software work with the hardware is the job of Boeing’s System of Systems Integration Lab.

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 Key code PEGGY MASON/BOEING

Invaluable teammates

Twin robots developed by Boeing Research & Technology in Seattle and Boeing’s Composite Center for Excellence in Philadelphia are helping speed production on Boeing’s V-22 Osprey assembly line.

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 Invaluable teammatesFred Troilo/Boeing

The last mission

The Boeing team at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Fla., has been busy the past few months preparing for and receiving the first six retired F-16 fighters for an entirely different kind of mission. The aircraft will be extensively modified and used as aerial targets to help train warfighters in weapons and tactics. In all, up to 126 of the jet fighters could be converted as part of the QF-16 program.

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 The last mission Peter George/BOEING
and Rich Rau/BOEING