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Boeing Eyes Global Market With Surveillance Aircraft

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

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SEATTLE--Boeing [BA] is close to announcing a partnership with other firms to offer a medium-sized maritime surveillance aircraft to the global market in part by leveraging systems it is already supplying to the U.S Navy, company executives said recently. Doug Ilgenfritz, the program manager for Boeing's Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA), told reporters the idea involves using a commercially available business jet and loading it up with intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) systems, some of which are being installed on the…

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