The Boeing Company, of Houston, Texas, has a long heritage in providing space technology for Nasa.
Stanley Ebner, former Senior Vice President of Washington Operations for the Boeing Company.
For instance, two directors serve together on the board of Abbott Laboratories and two more serve together on the board of the Boeing Company.
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"The Boeing Company wishes to extend its profound condolences to the families and friends of those lost today in the Bhoja Air accident in Pakistan, as well as wishes for the recovery of those injured, " said O'Donnell.
General Pace's address to the 350-plus attendees at this elegant black-tie dinner held at the Mayflower Hotel was preceded by a welcome from Harry Stonecipher, President and CEO of the Boeing Company, who served as the Dinner's Chairman.
With little fanfare but lots of effort, the Boeing Company this week is on the verge of completing all the tasks required by the Federal Aviation Administration to demonstrate the 787 Dreamliner is ready for a return to routine operations.
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Tomorrow, the Boeing Company reportedly will be briefed by the U.S. Air Force about that service's controversial rejection of the American firm's aerial refueling aircraft proposal in favor of that offered by a joint venture dominated by the European Aeronautic, Defense, and Space (EADS) consortium.
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In Seattle the Boeing aircraft company, normally the country's single biggest exporter, is having to adjust to the fact that Asia's airlines are now flying almost empty.
Louisans have grown used to seeing jobs disappear by the planeload in the past decade--20, 000 of them from McDonnell Douglas alone, the airplane company Boeing bought in 1997.
However, it is easier to solve the technical problem of how to power the 787 than it is to change the actions and culture of Boeing the company that managed to convince regulators and customers that its flawed lithium-ion batteries made the 787 safe to fly.
Boeing is the latest company to announce layoffs since September 11, when terrorists hijacked four Boeing-made aircraft belonging to two different airlines.
Plans to sell the company to Boeing, Bombardier and others also fell through.
The company numbers Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed Martin among its customers of propulsion-system components and aerostructures--such items as engine housings and fuselage parts.
As Airbus crept up from a third of total orders ten years ago to match Boeing, the American company kept emphasising that what really counts is deliveries, not orders, because that is when cash is actually paid for aircraft.
As for the company's senior management, Mr Stonecipher points out that the top dozen or so executives in the enlarged Boeing group emerged from, but do not specifically represent, the three companies that came together three years ago to form the Boeing defence and aerospace company.
The head of purchasing for a manufacturing company like Boeing is among the top 20 employees at Boeing.
If Toyota now scores conspicuously higher on the trust meter, the company has three natural advantages that Boeing does not.
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In February the company ordered 27 Boeing 767-300er freighters to handle the surge in volume.
More alarmist analysts think that doing nothing would kill the company and make Boeing a monopoly producer.
Phil Condit stepped down as chief executive of Boeing , the beleaguered defense company, after seven years on the job.
In February the company ordered 27 Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) 767-300er freighters to handle the surge in volume.
Then the leasing company that's the largest customer for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner gave word that structural changes to where the plane's wings attach to the fuselage would further delay the 787's first flight by three to six months.
Then the leasing company that's the largest customer for Boeing's (nyse: BA - news - people ) 787 Dreamliner gave word that structural changes to where the plane's wings attach to the fuselage would further delay the 787's first flight by three to six months.
Boeing is the archrival of Airbus, which is the civilian aircraft business of the European aerospace and defense company EADS. Some of the planes Lion Air bought from Boeing are the direct competitors to the aircraft it is buying from Airbus.
The 737 is Boeing's best-seller, and the company has been building the smaller plane for decades.
The reviews by regulators and by Boeing could result in a need for the company to make changes to the batteries, which could challenge its plans to double production of the plane to 10 a month by the end of this year.
The battery fix included a team of Boeing battery engineers and experts from outside the company.
Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people) is leaving Seattle, the company's home since William Boeing founded it in 1916, when military aircraft were still made of birch and canvas.
Ida scrubbed the bathrooms and corporate offices at Boeing--a company at which her son would one day be appointed to the board.
Separately, Vivek Lall, who heads the Indian operations at Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems unit, said the company will bid to sell six medium-range maritime patrol aircraft to India.
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