http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/business/05defense.html?src=me&ref=business
So Obama's trip to India is now about jobs and look what kind they are.
Fear and terror is security...right?
It makes me wonder why the military industrial complex hasn't left for Asia to. Every other kind of manufacturing has why not them?
big item on President Obama’s India to-do list this weekend is securing a $5 billion deal for Boeing to sell 10 of its C-17 cargo planes.
The agreement, for which Boeing and American officials have long laid the groundwork, would be part of a flurry of military equipment deals that foreign suppliers are eager to nail down with India. Mr. Obama’s French and Russian counterparts are expected to visit New Delhi this year, with their own military sales contracts in hand.
India, flush with new wealth but worried about its national security, is rapidly turning into one of the world’s most lucrative arms markets.
In the last several years, as its budget and appetite for more sophisticated weaponry
Showing posts with label Boeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boeing. Show all posts
Friday, November 5, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Boeing gets $89M to build unmanned aircraft that can stay aloft for 5 years
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/66394
Oh look, product development for a little more CONSUMER debt, specifically developed for future sales by the United States Defense Department to be paid for by the taxpayers of every country that buys one to further their defences regarding the "War on Terror"
The "War on Terror" has been an exceptionally lucrative money maker due to the fear level index rise, after the initiation of 9/11.
Fear is the greatest psycological sell of all times.
One of the more unique unmanned aircraft took a giant step toward reality this week when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) inked an agreement with Boeing to build the SolarEagle, a plane capable of remaining at heights over 60,000ft for over five years.
Boeing says the first SolarEagle under the $89 million contract could fly as early as 2014.
12 mad science projects that could shake the world
The SolarEagle is built under DARPA's Vulture program. The idea is to build a single aircraft that could support traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance functions over country-sized areas - while at the same time providing an unblinking eye over a critical target, monitoring that target night and day, day in and day out, month after month - providing unprecedented high-value intelligence. Vulture aircraft will also be able to provide communications capabilities available today only from geostationary satellites - offering opportunities for new, more flexible, expandable and relocatable communication architectures at a fraction of the cost of dedicated satellite capabilities. The challenges with Vulture include developing solar cell, energy storage, and reliability technologies that will allow the aircraft to operate continuously, unrefueled for over 44,000 hours, DARPA stated.
Under the Vulture II agreement, Boeing will develop a full-scale flight demonstrator, including maturation of the critical power system and structures technologies. Key suppliers for the program include Versa Power Systems and QinetiQ.
Oh look, product development for a little more CONSUMER debt, specifically developed for future sales by the United States Defense Department to be paid for by the taxpayers of every country that buys one to further their defences regarding the "War on Terror"
The "War on Terror" has been an exceptionally lucrative money maker due to the fear level index rise, after the initiation of 9/11.
Fear is the greatest psycological sell of all times.
One of the more unique unmanned aircraft took a giant step toward reality this week when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) inked an agreement with Boeing to build the SolarEagle, a plane capable of remaining at heights over 60,000ft for over five years.
Boeing says the first SolarEagle under the $89 million contract could fly as early as 2014.
12 mad science projects that could shake the world
The SolarEagle is built under DARPA's Vulture program. The idea is to build a single aircraft that could support traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance functions over country-sized areas - while at the same time providing an unblinking eye over a critical target, monitoring that target night and day, day in and day out, month after month - providing unprecedented high-value intelligence. Vulture aircraft will also be able to provide communications capabilities available today only from geostationary satellites - offering opportunities for new, more flexible, expandable and relocatable communication architectures at a fraction of the cost of dedicated satellite capabilities. The challenges with Vulture include developing solar cell, energy storage, and reliability technologies that will allow the aircraft to operate continuously, unrefueled for over 44,000 hours, DARPA stated.
Under the Vulture II agreement, Boeing will develop a full-scale flight demonstrator, including maturation of the critical power system and structures technologies. Key suppliers for the program include Versa Power Systems and QinetiQ.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Boeing loses appeal over Oklahoma workers' retirement benefits
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011382802_boeing19.html
The Appeals Court affirmation of that outcome is scathingly worded, rejecting Boeing's legal arguments as "desperate."
The court said it recognized Boeing's desire to avoid paying lifetime benefits to early retirees and noted that similar collective bargaining commitments had helped drive General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy.
"But Boeing is stuck with the commitments," the court ruled. "It was not required to provide lifetime benefits to workers represented by the UAW, but it agreed to do so and must live with its decision."
The Appeals Court affirmation of that outcome is scathingly worded, rejecting Boeing's legal arguments as "desperate."
The court said it recognized Boeing's desire to avoid paying lifetime benefits to early retirees and noted that similar collective bargaining commitments had helped drive General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy.
"But Boeing is stuck with the commitments," the court ruled. "It was not required to provide lifetime benefits to workers represented by the UAW, but it agreed to do so and must live with its decision."
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Government math
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62F61T20100316
U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence
The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the project pending review, authorities said on Tuesday.
But not before
spending over $1 billion of taxpayers' dollars on a failed system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border
U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence
The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the project pending review, authorities said on Tuesday.
But not before
spending over $1 billion of taxpayers' dollars on a failed system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border
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