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Aerospace and Defense Sector

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Southwest to Buy $19 Billion Worth of Boeing Jets in Largest Aircraft Order Ever

    ​If Boeing pays its sales agents on commission (and Lord knows they should), then there are some serious bonus checks being cut right now.

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    Alan Mulally Makes a Killing

    Why leaving Boeing may have been the Ford CEO's best decision yet.

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Boeing Lays Off the Only Guy Who Knows How to Install the Wings

    ​The Onion hits Boeing with a parody that, like any good satire, hits a little close to home mid-Recession. "With the airline industry continuing to suffer under the ongoing recession, the Boeing Company was forced Monday to lay off Al Freedman, the only guy left at the corporation who knows h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Boeing's Dreamliner Grounded Because of Faulty Italian Part

    ​Boeing's five 787 Dreamliner planes are captives to the tarmac for a few days as engineers re-inspect a part imported from an Italian manufacturer. Brackets on the plane's horizontal tail were incorrectly assembled, which could have led to some in-flight nastiness. That noise you hear is the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Video: 60 Minutes on Boeing's Border Failure

    Watch CBS News Videos Online In 2006, Boeing won a multibillion-dollar contract to completely revamp the way America protects its borders. One year later, some were already claiming the defense giant's attempts to construct a "virtual fence" across the Mexican border a "high-tech fiasco." 14-minut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Video: Building the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

    In roughly five hours chief pilot Mike Carriker will gun the throttle, thus marking the inaugural flight of Boeing's newest aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner. In honor of this historic flight, and to give you a greater sense for how long it's been in the works, here's a video of the Dreamliner's constr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Good Thing Patty Murray Doesn't Have to Run in Alabama

    Next time Murray has to go south of the Mason-Dixon, she might want to take those burly dudes with her.​With the Dreamliner finally up in the air, one could almost forget the unending controversy swirling in Boeing's turbines. First there's that little move to South Carolina planned to actua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    GM Hands Boeing Perfect Opportunity to Restore Company Goodwill

    Saab--to be reborn from a maker of jets?​We, along with every other editorial voice in the Northwest, have repeatedly bashed Boeing for opting to build its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina. But now struggling General Motors is handing Boeing a perfect PR gesture to earn the goodwill of enginee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Sen. Lindsey Graham Thinks Boeing Chose South Carolina Beacuse of its Manners

    Don't let the elementary school crossing guard look fool you: Sen. Lindsey Graham knows how to play hard ball.​A couple days after Boeing's decision to locate its second 787 Dreamliner assembly line in Charleston it seems everyone has a different opinion on why the jet maker chose South Caroli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Breaking: Boeing Dreamliner Headed to South Carolina

    That's the word from Jon Ostrower at Flight Blogger. Ostrower's scoop comes courtesy of a release from Snohomish Country Executive Aaron Reardon.The Boeing Company's announcement to locate a second 787 line in North Charleston, S.C., signals that other states want what we have - a strong manufacturi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Boeing Rendition Flights OK'd by Obama

    ​It appears the Boeing Co. will continue to have a job transporting sometimes-innocent American prisoners to sometimes-torturous foreign prisons. It's called rendition, and the Obama government says it will continue the Bush adminstration practice of outsourcing terrorism suspects to third cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Authors to See Tonight

    First a reminder from Brian J. Barr: At the SP20 Comedy Night last year, Eugene Mirman performed a gut-busting set before totally unprepared headliner David Cross. It was all the more reason to keep championing a comic who'd previously put his missteps on display like a kid tacking his C homework t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2009

    Pratap Chatterjee

    First a reminder from Brian J. Barr: At the SP20 Comedy Night last year, Eugene Mirman performed a gut-busting set before totally unprepared headliner David Cross. It was all the more reason to keep championing a comic who'd previously put his missteps on display like a kid tacking his C homework t ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2008

    Deep Pockets Still Love Stevens

    Boeing has ponied up $48,000 for his re-election campaign.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2008

    Boeing's Defense Overruns, Cont.

    Boeing has ponied up $48,000 for his re-election campaign.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    Boeing Files Protest: Airbus Pick 'Flawed'

    Boeing has ponied up $48,000 for his re-election campaign.

  • News

    October 31, 2007

    Boeing's War Chest; DUI Defense for the Stars

    Selections of daily reporting on our news blog, the Daily Weekly.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2007

    Boeing Fiasco?

    Selections of daily reporting on our news blog, the Daily Weekly.

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    Port Commission Candidate Gael Tarleton's SAIC Backers Could Soon Be Asking Her For Business

    SAIC has had numerous contracts with the Port in the past.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2007

    Cantwell to Hire Governor's Daughter

    SAIC has had numerous contracts with the Port in the past.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2006

    Rendition Airways

    SAIC has had numerous contracts with the Port in the past.

  • News

    February 23, 2005

    Transfer of Wealth

    SAIC has had numerous contracts with the Port in the past.

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    'Go Boeing!'

    And other impartial e-mails from the Air Force.

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    The State's Two-Timing Consultant

    Taxpayers paid Deloitte Consulting $715,000 to help woo Boeing—which just happens to be a $5 million Deloitte client.

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Let Go of Boeing

    Locke is doing 'whatever it takes' to land the 7E7. But how bad would it be if he failed? Ask Renton.

  • News

    June 6, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    Locke is doing 'whatever it takes' to land the 7E7. But how bad would it be if he failed? Ask Renton.

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    The next generation

    The bitter strike at Boeing underscores sweeping cultural changes at the company.

  • News

    June 17, 1998

    Boeing

    Business the island way

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