Boeing Media Guide - PGA TOUR Media

TITLE SPONSOR: THE BOEING COMPANYBoeing in BriefBoeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and militaryaircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles,satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider toNASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. The company also provides numerousmilitary and commercial airline support services. Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries around the worldand is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales.Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. The company continues to expand its productline and services to meet emerging customer needs. The broad range of capabilities includes creating new, moreefficient members of its commercial airplane family;integrating military platforms, defense systems and the warfighterthrough network-centric operations;creating advanced technology solutions;and arranging innovative customerfinancingsolutions.Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 160,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries,with major operations in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, southern California and St. Louis. Total companyrevenues for 2007 were $66.4 billion.Boeing is organized into two business units:Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.Supporting these units is Boeing Capital Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions;the Shared ServicesGroup, which provides a broad range of services to Boeing worldwide;and Boeing Engineering, Operations &Technology, which helps develop, acquire, apply and protect innovative technologies and processes.Boeing Commercial AirplanesBoeing has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for more than 40 years. With the merger ofBoeing and McDonnell Douglas in 1997, Boeing's leadership in commercial jets, joined with the lineage of Douglasairplanes, gives the combined company a 70-year heritage of leadership in commercial aviation. Today, the maincommercial products are the 737, 747, 767 and 777 families of airplanes and the Boeing Business Jet. New productdevelopment efforts are focused on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and the 747-8. The company has nearly 12,000commercial jetliners in service worldwide, which is roughly 75 percent of the world fleet. Through Boeing CommercialAviation Services, the company provides unsurpassed, around-the-clock technical support to help operators maintaintheir airplanes in peak operating condition. Commercial Aviation Services offers a full range of world-class engineering,modification, logistics and information services to its global customer base, which includes the world's passenger andcargo airlines, as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities. Boeing also trains maintenance and flight crewsin the 100-seat-and-above airliner market through Alteon, the world's largest and most comprehensive provider ofairline training.Boeing Integrated Defense SystemsBoeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS)provides end-to-end services for large-scale systems that enhance air-,land-, sea- and space-based platforms for global military, government and commercial customers. In addition todesigning, producing, modifying and supporting fighters, bombers, transports, rotorcraft, aerial refuelers, missiles,munitions and spacecraft for military, civil and commercial use, IDS is developing enhanced capabilities throughnetwork-centric operations, communications and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. IDS alsosupports the U.S. government as a system integrator on several programs of national significance -- NASA's spaceshuttle and International Space Station programs, the Missile Defense Agency's Ground-Based Midcourse Defenseprogram, the Army's Future Combat Systems program and SBInet, a critical component of the Secure Border Initiativemanaged by the Department of Homeland Security.6