Boeing Integrated Defense Systems: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS) is unit of The Boeing Company, responsible for defense and aerospace products. It a consolidated group consisting of the following acquired companies:

• Boeing Vertol, formerly Piasecki
• Hughes Satellite Systems
• Hughes Helicopters
• The St. Louis-based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company
• The former North American Aviation division of Rockwell
• Rocketdyne

Boeing IDS also controls the Phantom Works research group, which develops black projects.

Products

Bombers

• Y1B-9
• B-17 Flying Fortress
• B-29 Superfortress
• B-47 Stratojet
• B-50 Superfortress
• B-52 Stratofortress
• B-1B Lancer (Rockwell)
• B-2 Spirit (in contractor team under Northrop Grumman)

Helicopters

• AH-64 Apache
• CH-46 Sea Knight
• CH-47 Chinook
• V-22 Osprey (with Bell Helicopter)
• RAH-66 Comanche (with Sikorsky), cancelled light attack helicopter

Tactical fighters

• P-26 Peashooter
• F-4 Phantom II (McDonnell Douglas)
• F-15 Eagle (McDonnell Douglas)
• AV-8A Harrier (British Aerospace)
• AV-8B Harrier II (McDonnell Douglas/British Aerospace)
• Harrier GR9 (BAe/McDonnell Douglas)
• F/A-18 Hornet (McDonnell Douglas)
  See also: Blue Angels aerobatic team
• F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
• F/A-22 Raptor (subcontractor with Lockheed Martin)
• X-32, Boeing's losing entry for the Joint Strike Fighter competition

Tankers and transports

• KC-135 Stratotanker
• KC-10 Extender (McDonnell Douglas)
• KC-767, replacement for KC-135
• C-22
• C-32A Executive Transport
• C-40 Clipper
• YC-14
• YC-15 (McDonnell Douglas)
• C-17 Globemaster III (McDonnell Douglas)
• VC-25A ("Air Force One")

Surveillance and other military

• Airborne Laser
• EC-135
• OC-135 Open Skies
• RC-135 Rivet Joint
• E-3 Sentry (an AWACS surveillance aircraft)
• E-4B (Advanced Airborne Command Post)
• E-6 TACAMO
• E-8 Joint STARS, ground battle management
• E-10 MC2A (successor to the E-3, E-8, EC-135)
• T-43
• T-45 Goshawk
• Project Wedgetail (AEW&C)
• Multimission Maritime Aircraft (ASW)
• X-36 (Tailless Agility Research Aircraft)

Unmanned aerial vehicles

• X-45

Missiles

• BOMARC
• AGM-48 Skybolt (Douglas)
• AGM-84 Harpoon (McDonnell Douglas)
• AGM-86 ALCM Cruise Missile
• AGM-114 Hellfire (McDonnell Douglas)
• BGM-109 Tomahawk (McDonnell Douglas)
• Brimstone

Space launch and exploration

• X-20 Dyna-Soar
• X-40
• Saturn V
• Crew Return Vehicle
• Inertial Upper Stage
• International Space Station
• Solar Orbit Transfer Vehicle
• Space Shuttle (Rockwell)
• Delta I
• Delta II
• Delta III
• Delta IV EELV
• Sea Launch (with Energia, Kvaerner, and Yuzhnoe)

Satellites

• Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
• GPS Satellites (Rockwell)
• Integrated Solar Upper Stage
• Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Weapon System
• XSS Micro-satellite
• 376 (formerly Hughes Satellite Systems - HSS)
• 601 (formerly HSS)
• 702 (formerly HSS)

Other

• Avenger
• Bird of Prey
• MAGLEV
• Pegasus class hydrofoils

• Phantom Works
• Rocketdyne
• Boeing Satellite Systems
• United Space Alliance (with Lockheed Martin)
• Sea Launch (40%)

• Mesa, Arizona
• El Segundo, California
• Long Beach, California
• St. Louis, Missouri
• Wichita, Kansas