Robert Bradway, president and CEO of biotechnology firm Amgen, has joined Boeing’s board of directors. “[Bradway’s] accomplishments in business, operations and finance will serve Boeing well as he applies his broad-based experience to aerospace,” Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement released Friday. Bradway will serve on the board’s finance and […] More

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has said the Chicago-based aerospace company plans to land the first human on Mars and that he expects space tourism to develop into a “viable commercial market” over the next 20 years, Bloomberg Technology reported Tuesday. “I’m convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing […] More

Boeing Chief Operating Officer Dennis Muilenburg outlined the company’s approach to production of commercial airplanes in response to global market competition before Senate lawmakers on Thursday, Herald Net reported Sunday. Dan Catchpole writes that Muilenburg also detailed Boeing’s plan to increase production rates for the 737 and 787 aircraft lines and to introduce the fresh 787-9 and -10, […] More

World View has opened its Series D round and secured initial funding from Sierra Nevada Corporation and other investors, old and new. The investment will specifically support growing demand for high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, World View said Tuesday.

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Maryanne Miller, former head of the Air Mobility Command and the Air Force Reserve, has joined the board of directors at aviation services provider Bristow Group. Her nearly four-decade military career included command experience in global airlift, aerial refueling, aeromedical evacuation and presidential transportation support, Bristow said Monday. She logged more than 4.800 flight hours […] More

Dennis Muilenburg, CEO of Boeing, has said the company invests money and effort to develop technology concepts with the goal to accelerate capability for customers when pursuing contracts, USNI News reported Thursday. Muilenburg told analysts Wednesday at a conference call projects to build the U.S. Navy‘s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aircraft and the U.S. Air Force‘s […] More

Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing’s global services business, has said he is working with the heads of the Chicago-based aerospace firm’s defense and commercial segments to find new growth opportunities, AINonline reported Friday. Deal said he collaborates with CEO Dennis Muilenburg; Leanne Caret, president of Boeing’s defense, space and security segment; Greg Smith, chief […] More

Boeing and state-owned company Saudi Arabian Military Industries have agreed to form a joint venture that seeks to localize in Saudi Arabia at least 55 percent of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the Middle Eastern country’s fleet of rotary- and fixed-wing military planes. The memorandum of agreement signed by Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and […] More

Boeing has provided a $10 million donation to support programs and services of the Military Service Initiative of the George W. Bush Institute. The company said Wednesday it donated the money as part of a multiyear, $30 million investment geared toward veteran recovery and rehabilitation and military transition services. “Through our support of the Military Service Initiative, […] More

The Aerospace Industries Association has named at least 20 executives from the government contracting sector to its board of governors for 2018. Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, will succeed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg as chairman of AIA, the trade group said Monday. William Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Harris, will serve as […] More

Defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing have started to step up efforts to compete in the space segment as they see new business opportunities in the market, Space News reported Thursday. Bruce Tanner, chief financial officer at Lockheed, said at an earnings call Tuesday the company intends to spend up to […] More

Eric Fanning, formerly secretary of the U.S. Army, will succeed Dave Melcher as president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association beginning Jan. 1. “Eric will strengthen AIA’s position as the voice of the aerospace and defense industry, bringing continued attention and advocacy to key issues affecting civil aviation, space and defense,” Dennis Muilenburg, AIA chairman […] More