The Boeing Company has been the world leader in commercial flight for more than 30 years, a position now reinforced by the talent, customer base and product lines of McDonnell Douglas.

Boeing's success in the market has come from the firm's intense focus on customers: listening to them, understanding them and answering their specific needs. We begin by offering the world's best products at competitive prices, and then we support our customers' airplanes with common parts and systems.

One of the biggest challenges faced by the military today is affordability - a challenge our company is well positioned to meet. We possess the talent and resources to produce ingenious, cost-efficient solutions for the defense of our nation and its allies. McDonnell Douglas has brought us proven leadership in military aircraft production programs.

Creation of the Joint Strike Fighter prototype demands new concepts, technologies and materials, as well as new manufacturing techniques. Our unique modular design brings 90-percent commonality to all three variants of the JSF, which will be produced on a single manufacturing line.

The Boeing Phantom Works, our research and development group, operates with the same philosophy: Think differently; invent what you need; bring radical simplicity to design and production. Phantom Works continues to develop highly advanced technologies, from airframes to avionics. As we head into a changing military environment, serving the United States and allied nations around the world, we plan to deliver products that redefine performance and value.

Once, the sky was our limit - now a growing amount of our work routinely flies into orbit. As NASA's leading contractor, we are working at the frontiers of space technology. Our future is linked to space flight and exploration, and to increasing commercial applications in space. The flexibility of the Space Shuttle exemplifies the way space technology benefits government, military and civilian customers.

As the leader of the U.S. industry team for the Space Station, we are building 43,000 cubic feet of pressurized living and working space - the equivalent of the interior volume of two 747s. With 15 nations working cooperatively toward its success, the Space Station is the largest international science and technology venture in the history of humankind.

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