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Company type | Division |
Industry | Defense and space |
Founded | 1939 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Theodore Colbert III (President and CEO) [1] |
Revenue | US$24.9 billion (2023) |
US$(1.8) billion (2023) | |
Total assets | US$14.9 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 17,925 (2023) |
Parent | The Boeing Company |
Website | boeing |
Footnotes /references Financials as of December 31,2023 [update] . References: [2] [3] |
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a division of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The division builds military airplanes, rotorcraft, and missiles, as well as space systems for both commercial and military customers, including satellites, spacecraft, and rockets.
It was formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), which was formed in 2002 by combining the former "Military Aircraft and Missile Systems" and "Space and Communications" divisions. [4] The group that brought together major names in aerospace; Boeing Military Airplane Company; Hughes Satellite Systems; Hughes Helicopters (the civilian helicopter line was divested as MD Helicopters); Piasecki Helicopter (subsequently known as Boeing Vertol and Boeing Helicopters); the McDonnell division of McDonnell Douglas; and the former North American Aviation division of Rockwell International.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security made Boeing the third-largest defense contractor in the world in 2021 [5] and helped make Boeing the second-largest U.S. federal government contractor in fiscal year 2019.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security was headquartered in Greater St. Louis north of St. Louis Lambert International Airport in the northern St. Louis suburb of Berkeley, Missouri, until January 2017, when top executives and support staff were relocated to Arlington, Virginia. [6] There are also significant operations in nearby Missouri communities, such as Hazelwood and St. Charles. It remains one of the largest employers in Greater St. Louis with 13,707 local employees as of 2018. [7]
Other major locations of BDS are in California and Washington state. Boeing chose to locate the defense systems offices in the St. Louis area because of the role of the space and aircraft programs of the former McDonnell Douglas location, and bipartisan support from area politicians. [8]
In 2016, Boeing moved the division headquarters from St. Louis to Arlington, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. area and located close to The Pentagon. [9]
Boeing BDS was reorganized in June 2018: [10]
In November 2022, Boeing consolidated its defense, space and security business from eight divisions into four, according to a company statement. Those reorganized divisions now focus on vertical lift; mobility, surveillance and bombers; air dominance; and space, intelligence and weapons systems, led by Ted Colbert, president and chief executive officer of BDS. [11]
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