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Army

Boeing, Partners End 2018 With Billion-Dollar Rotorcraft Work Windfall

Friday, January 4th, 2019

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Boeing, Partners End 2018 With Billion-Dollar Rotorcraft Work Windfall

First New Build Army SOAR MH-47G, produced by Boeing Photo: Defense Daily

Atop winning several of the largest and most contentious military acquisition competitions of 2018, Boeing [BA] in the month of December alone took home a share of nearly $2 billion in rotorcraft contracts from the U.S. Defense Department, much of it in conjunction with joint-venture partners. Boeing was selected in 2018 to build both the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer replacement competition and the Navy’s MQ-25 aerial refueling drone — work which Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg estimated at $60 billion…

Missile Defense

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Missile Defense

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Space

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Congress

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