War Is Big Business

Integrated Defense Systems

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) combines weapons and aircraft capabilities, intelligence and surveillance systems, communications architectures and extensive large-scale integration expertise. IDS has three capabilities-driven businesses -- Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems, Network and Space Systems, and Support Systems -- and an advanced technology development organization, Advanced Systems.

The Boeing Integrated Defense Systems strategy is to understand the enduring needs of customers and provide value-added solutions to meet their requirements. The strategy includes understanding the art of using current and emerging technologies to improve the capabilities of existing products and delivering new solutions.

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The Boeing Company is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Boeing is the largest aircraft manufacturer by revenue and the second-largest defense contractor in the world. In 2005, the company was the world’s largest civil aircraft manufacturer in terms of value (with 49% of orders and 45% of deliveries), overtaking Airbus for the first time since 2000. The largest exporter in the United States, Boeing’s stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

It is very interesting, that Boeing went from a near bankrupt company; to what it is today?