Boeing overhauls defense unit
Published 12:15 pm Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Boeing Co. is giving its Integrated Defense Systems a facelift in light of the current business environment, the company said Thursday.
“Boeing anticipated flattening defense budgets and shifting customer priorities for the past few years and has been taking aggressive steps to position the company for profitable growth in a challenging economy,” Dennis Muilenburg, president of Boeing’s defense unit.
The company renamed its defense division as Boeing Defense, Space &Security. Muilenburg said that reshaping the unit positions Boeing for further growth in new and adjacent markets while continuing to serve existing defense and space customers.
“With these latest strategic moves, we can extend our core programs even as we enhance Boeing-wide capabilities designed to capture business in promising markets in the United States and around the world, including cyber-security, energy, intelligence, C4ISR and logistics,” Muilenburg said.
While Boeing Defense, Space &Security will retain its current operating units – Boeing Military Aircraft, Network and Space Systems and Global Services &Support – the realignment consolidates some divisions and makes a number of leadership changes. Chief among the moves is consolidation of two divisions in Network and Space Systems: The Combat Systems division and the Command, Control &Communications Networks division will be unified as the new Network and Tactical Systems division.
For more on Boeing’s defense leadership changes, read the company’s press statement.
