A Boeing-led missile defense team has destroyed a key target in the first successful intercept test of the program since 2008. A ground-based interceptor launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California hit a target built by Lockheed Martin Corp. -- Washington Business Journal
Chicago-based Boeing (NYSE: BA) has operations around the country. Here are other recent stories reported by The Business Journals.
Will Boeing Co. be blamed for the crash of a Asiana Airlines 777 in San Francisco last July that killed three people? The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is expected to make a final decision soon, and could implicate Boeing and its automatic throttle that confused the South Korean pilots. -- Ben Miller of the Puget Sound Business Journal
United Launch Alliance, the partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is mounting a counterattack to the challenge in launch services from SpaceX. On Wednesday, ULA chief Michael Gass said his company would undertake to make its own rocket engines, answering the charge by SpaceX that ULA's dependence on Russian-made engines could violate U.S. sanctions. -- Tucker Echols of the Washington Business Journal
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has announced that its newest iteration of the Dreamliner has been certified for commercial service by both the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States and by the European Aviation Safety Agency. That clears the way for United Airlines, the Chicago-based launch carrier for the new stretch Dreamliner in North America, to take delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 within a matter of weeks.
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