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Deliveries of the aft-cockpit helmets are scheduled to begin in October 2007.
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“This contract defines the C-17 as the new global airlift standard–it has proven itself time and again in service around the world, and will be the air-lifter of choice well into the 21st Century,” said George Muellner, vice president and general manager, Air Force Systems, a business unit of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
The additional aircraft will bring the total number of C-17s in the US Air Force fleet to 180. More than 30,000 men and women at 700 C-17 supplier locations throughout the United States and across the globe support the Boeing C-17 team. A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, or IDS, is one of the world’s largest space and defense businesses. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $23 billion business.
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The Spaceway F2 satellite initially began broadcasting local HD programming to DIRECTV customers in eight new markets, and will begin broadcasting to an additional 16 markets by mid-year. DIRECTV launched 12 HD local markets last year on Spaceway F1. Launched by Arianespace on Nov. 16, 2005, from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, Spaceway F2 is the seventh Boeing-built satellite for DIRECTV. Boeing is building DIRECTV 10, DIRECTV 11 and an on-ground spare that will enable DIRECTV to significantly expand its delivery of local and national HD programming to customers across the continental United States, Hawaii and Alaska in 2007.
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