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For Immediate Release
June 26, 2003
BOEING PROGRAMS, LOCAL CONTRACTS
FUNDED BY HOUSE IN FY04 DEFENSE BILL
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than $15 billion in funding for Boeing-related weapon systems was included in next year’s defense spending bill today, according to U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, Washington’s senior Democrat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
The appropriations panel today approved the legislation that funds all U.S. national defense and intelligence gathering capabilities in the next fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1. Rep. Dicks said the bill provides increases in most of the major aircraft and weapon systems that Boeing is producing or in which it is a contracting partner.
“Especially at a time when the commercial side of Boeing is still suffering from the impacts of the airline industry slowdown, it is encouraging to see the company’s defense presence expanding,” said Rep. Dicks.
The major Boeing-related programs funded in the bill include:
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Program
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FY 2004 Amount Funded
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Comanche (New Army Helicopter program, a Boeing/Sikorsky effort)
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$1.08 billion
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Joint Strike Fighter (Boeing developing its version of the next generation fighter to be used by the Navy, Marines and Air Force)
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$4.17 billion
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Future Combat System (Boeing is the lead systems integrator for the Army’s networked system of improved communications links and lighter, more mobile armored vehicles)
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$1.7 billion
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F-22 (Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft, Boeing teamed with Lockheed Martin)
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$3.56 billion
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V-22 (Boeing/Bell tiltrotor aircraft, now in development
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$1.2 billion
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E-10A (Air Force’s new concept of a multi-mission command and control aircraft, utilizing Boeing 767 airframe0
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$363 million
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Airborne Laser program (aboard a modified Boeing 747, this is a chemical laser to shoot down ballistic missiles soon after they are launched)
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$624 million
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C-17 cargo aircraft (Newest Air Force airlifter, produced by Boeing at Long Beach, CA)
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$2.5 billion
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Advanced Wideband Satellite System (high-capacity tactical communications system currently planned for 2008)
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$289 million
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GPS Navstar (Next generation Global Positioning Satellite system)
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$147 million
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Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (Boeing built system to augment current Defense Satellite Communications System.
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$72 million
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[Note: These totals do not account for significant funding that is also included in the classified portion of the defense budget for Boeing-related work on programs such as the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) . A Boeing-led team was awarded the FIA contract in 1999 to enhance America's critical intelligence capability over the next decade.]
The congressman also said that the defense appropriations bill funds an array of Navy programs associated with a new mission that has been brought to the Navy’s Undersea Warfare Center at Keyport, Wash. At Rep. Dicks’ urging, the committee funded the Navy’s plan two years ago to centralize its research and development efforts related to “unmanned undersea vehicles” – UUVs – at Keyport.
These development efforts are being brought to Keyport because of the engineering expertise as well as the proximity of the testing ranges at Dabob Bay in Hood Canal and the Nanoose Range in the Strait of Georgia, the congressman said. The defense bill includes $2.5 million for additional range support expenses, $6.5 million for the National UUV Test and Evaluation Center, and $12 million for additional MK-54 lightweight torpedo procurement at Keyport, he said. In addition, there is $2 million to continue the Engineering Technician Apprentice program at Keyport, he added.
Among the other Washington State items in the Fiscal Year 2004 defense appropriation bill are:
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Pier 3 Restoration at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
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$6 million
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Additional Navy High Speed Torpedo Recovery/Craft, produced by Guardian Marine Inc. in Tacoma and Vancouver.
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$5 million
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Continued development of the Industrial Short Pulse Laser by the Extrude Hone Corp. in Bremerton
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$6 million
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Support for Extrude Hone’s 3-Dimensional Printing Metalworking project in Bremerton
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$2 million
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Support for the Northwest Environmental Resource Center, operated by the Concurrent Technologies Corporation in Bremerton, centralizing the Navy’s environmental programs in the Puget Sound area
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$7 million
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Additional data processing work, involving the development of a graphical user interface, by the Dimension 4 company in Bremerton
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$4 million
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Support for the Engineering Technician Apprentice program at Sub Base Bangor
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$1.5 million
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Development by the Tacoma company, Topia Ventures, of a “mobile agent” technology used at the Army Information Dominance Center.
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$2.5 million
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