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Boeing Defense Chief Outlines Key Investments Underway

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 10th, 2022

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Boeing Defense Chief Outlines Key Investments Underway

Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space, & Security. Photo: Boeing

Boeing’s [BA] defense business is investing in a number of capacity and technology areas to boost capabilities and become more agile and cost effective to meet future customer demands, the company’s top defense executive said on Thursday. These investments run from leveraging lessons learned in digital engineering on the T-7 aircraft trainer programs and applying them to other programs to building a new factory for producing small satellites rapidly, Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security,…

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