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Boeing Selling Tactical Intelligence Aircraft to Single- and Multi-Mission Customers

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, April 24th, 2014

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Boeing Selling Tactical Intelligence Aircraft to Single- and Multi-Mission Customers

Boeing's Reconfigurable Airborne Multi-Intelligence System

MIDDLETOWN, Del. -- Boeing [BA] has already begun selling its Reconfigurable Airborne Multi-Intelligence System (RAMIS)–which the company is pitching as both a standalone tactical intelligence platform and as a supplement to its P-8 Poseidon and the Insitu Scan Eagle–even as it continues to demonstrate new sensors for the aircraft. Michael Ferguson, a business development representative, told reporters during a media demonstration that “we have several customers for the airplane” and that each has requested a different sensor configuration so far.…

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