Above: Boeing will leverage advanced technologies and collaborative partnerships to enhance a next-gen U.S. homeland defense shield. (Boeing image)

 For the U.S. to meet its national defense needs, collaboration with American industry is crucial.

Why it matters: Boeing stands ready to help develop and scale a next-gen homeland defense shield to detect, identify, track and intercept new hypersonic, cruise, and ballistic missiles, and space-based threats. 

Driving the news: A longtime partner to the U.S. in its highest-priority missions, Boeing brings decades of experience and results to:

• Integrate air, space and ground-based systems into advanced architectures.
• Deploy satellites that enable flexible, resilient communications.
• Produce some of the world’s most advanced airborne early warning and control systems for detecting threats.
• Deliver the cutting-edge F-15EX, which provides industry-leading range, payload, speed and electronic warfare capabilities to enable air superiority and support homeland defense.
• Build and support air and missile defense systems that protect the United States as well as service members, civilians and critical infrastructure around the globe.

Adapting proven solutions: The team’s expertise in building and scaling production of advanced networked architectures spans integrated missile defense systems and multidomain sensing and communications technologies. Boeing:

• Serves as prime contractor and lead systems integrator for Ground-based Midcourse Defense, the homeland defense shield against long-range ballistic missile attacks.
• Develops directed energy and efficient kinetic air defense solutions against lower-tier threats.
• Co-develops the Arrow-3 and Arrow-2 interceptors — the cornerstone of Israel’s long-range missile defense.
• Advances space-sensing layers (constellations of satellites) through Millenium Space Systems, including the Missile Track Custody and FOO Fighter programs for real-time data and situational awareness.
• Produces components for the Aegis Standard Missile-3 for sea-based defense against short- to medium-range ballistic missiles.
• Invests in technology, manufacturing capacity and talent to address the challenges of modern defense and stay at the forefront of national security space.
• Manufactures — at record pace — world-class seekers that enable Patriot interceptors to defeat threats, from hypersonics and hostile aircraft, to ballistic and cruise missiles.

Shaping future tech: Boeing’s investments in its team’s leading-edge technology and tools are driving decisive and disruptive capabilities such as:

• Digital engineering and open system architectures — to streamline the production system and accelerate solutions from development through sustainment.
• Sophisticated modeling and simulation — through Boeing’s Virtual Warfare Centers to support training and scenario planning for better real-world decision-making.
• Long-range sensing, data fusion and AI processing partnerships — to enhance networking and communications for efficient threat response from the skies.
• Innovation through its Phantom Works division, focused on research, development and prototyping to tackle the toughest challenges.
• Advanced sensing — to revolutionize precision in detecting and tracking threats.

The bottom line: Boeing is uniquely positioned to help the U.S. make its vision of a dynamic next-gen homeland defense capability a reality.

Source: The Boeing Company