The new unit, to be called Integrated Defence Systems (IDS) and headquartered in St Louis, about 300 miles south of the firm's headquarters in Chicago, will bring together all of Boeing's defence-related businesses.

BBC: Boeing realigns business units

Poles expect that these will be American-financed, part of NATO's commitment to the country's defence, and fully integrated with Poland's own air-defence system.

ECONOMIST: Missile defence in Europe

In their memorandum they agreed that an integrated European Aerospace and Defence Company should embrace civil, military transport and combat aircraft as well as helicopters, space launchers and guided weapons.

ECONOMIST: European armaments

But if we had had an integrated Europe with a common defence policy and a common foreign policy, then I think we'd have seen a very different situation.

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Tensions persist within the newly integrated forces of the Congolese army, which include a powerful Tutsi militia, called the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), that may retain its old command structure inside Congo's army.

ECONOMIST: Strife in eastern Congo

Its space and communications division, based in Seal Beach, California, is the lead contractor working on America's national missile-defence system, as well as the provider of the future combat system that is part of the integrated battlespace system for the army.

ECONOMIST: America's defence companies are turning dual-purpose