Boeing Defence UK

Infobox Company
company_name = Boeing UK
company_
location = London Basingstoke Bristol Farnborough Gosport Hounslow Yeovil Luton Newbury Waddington Manchester
founded = 1997
industry = defense
products = Military aircraft
Munitions
Aerospace Support
Simulation
Operations and Maintenance
Computer Services
num_employees = 600 (2007)
parent = The Boeing Company
homepage = [http://www.boeing.co.uk/ Boeing.co.uk]
footnotes =

Boeing's presence in the United Kingdom is currently made up of a number of Boeing businesses (and subsidiaries) [cite web|url=http://www.boeing.co.uk|title=Boeing in the UK home page |publisher=The Boeing Company |date=2007-07-10 |accessdate=2007-08-25] :
* Boeing Defence UK
* Boeing UK Limited
* Aviall
* Alteon
* Jeppeson
* Continental Data Graphics

The current President of Boeing in the UK is Sir Roger Bone, [cite web|url=http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/135/135065.html|title=Boeing UK Ltd profile|publisher=Yahoo |date=2007-07-10 |accessdate=2007-08-25] a UK ex-diplomat. The Managing Director of Boeing Defence UK is Mike Kurth, previously a Vice President within Boeing Advanced Systems.

Ministry of Defence programs Boeing in the UK is involved in are:
* System of Systems Integrator on the British Army Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) with Thales
* RAF Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft (AWACS) support and upgrades
* WAH-64D maintenance and support with AgustaWestland
* Through Life Maintenance on the CH-47 Chinook fleet
* RAF Fylingdales Early Warning Radar Missile Defence support and upgrades
* Brimstone missile integration to RAF Tornado and Harrier aircraft with MBDA
* C-17 Globemaster III
* Nimrod
* The Portal - synthetic environment based decision support centre with QinetiQ [cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/07/10/215453/boeing-qinetiq-open-portal-to-farnborough.html|title=Boeing, Qinetiq open Portal to Farnborough (news release) |publisher=Flight International |date=2007-07-10 |accessdate=2007-08-25]
* RAF Mission Training through Distributed Simulation (MTDS) CCD in-conjunction with QinetiQ [cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/index.cfm?storyid=A00A2990-1143-EC82-2E0AE968E96807EF|title=RAF News|publisher=Royal Airforce|accessdate=2007-12-02]

Boeing also conducts research and development in the UK on primarily aerodynamics and manufacturing technologies with the following research organisations [cite web|url=http://www.boeing.co.uk/ViewContent.do?id=2682&aContent=University%20Relationships|title=Boeing |publisher=The Boeing Company |accessdate=2007-08-25] :
* QinetiQ
* Cambridge University
* Cranfield University
* Sheffield University

This research is supporting the following Boeing programs:
* 787 Dreamliner
* Blended Wing Body
* Classified Programs

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