Delivering decisive mission advantage for soldiers

October 11, 2024 in Defense

Multi-domain dominance Boeing aims to help Soldiers ensure multi-domain dominance by delivering decisive mission advantage through three core tenets: Global Control, Global Reach and Global Strike. (Image: Boeing)

In Boeing’s 107th year of support to the most storied branch of the Armed Services —the U.S. Army — the company is proud to continue its partnership as the Army transforms to lead in a changing world. As a stalwart of the nation’s industrial base and global leader in defense solutions, Boeing is committed to enabling the Army’s transformation into the future force of 2030 and beyond.

As global threats continue to evolve and proliferate, the best deterrent to conflict remains a modern and resilient Joint Force anchored by an Army that’s ready to fight and win. To that end, Boeing aims to help Soldiers ensure multi-domain dominance by delivering decisive mission advantage through three core tenets: Global Control, Global Reach and Global Strike.

Global Control — Controlling the battlespace and delivering the information advantage

  • The company’s satellite communication (SATCOM) terminals leverage commercial satellites, teleports, geographically diverse data centers, and its global Multiprotocol Label Switching network to deliver essential services.
  • Boeing’s Radio as a Service (RaaS) provides and delivers a highly mobile secure but unclassified -encrypted (SBU-E) radio and global SATCOM backhaul as a service — including logistics, spectrum management, around-the-clock operations support and technical refresh.
  • Boeing's Radio Extended Network (REN) consists of a Banshee Mobile Radio (BMR) and Banshee Tactical Radio (BTR) to offer expanded deployable networks with MANET/Mesh, secure 4G/5G, and Wi-Fi, to ensure nonstop connection and communication for Soldiers at the tactical edge.
  • Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences’ SKIRON-X is an easily deployable small unmanned aerial system (UAS) optimized to improve battlefield visibility via advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, a flexible payload and extended flight time.
  • The company’s Mission Systems for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic warfare (EW) help Soldiers master the spectrum, control the narrative and achieve mission success across security levels and domains.
  • Boeing’s next-generation battlespace communications system evolves and grows with the needs of the modern military — leveraging advanced network capabilities and a modular design to connect multi-domain forces via wired and wireless data, voice and video services.
CH-47F Block II Chinook A CH-47F Block II Chinook conducts its first flight (Image: Boeing Fred Troilo Photo)

Global Reach — Projecting combat power, maintaining force readiness and sustaining the fight

  • CH-47F Block II, the result of continuous modernization efforts to enhance the battle-tested Chinook, provides increased payload capacity, range and interoperability — delivering superior and affordable heavy-lift capability for Soldiers when and where they need it.
  • To ensure optimal system availability and fleet-readiness, Boeing Global Services offers top-notch sustainment support for products, spanning from flight training to predictive and prognostic maintenance.
  • Boeing’s Next Generation Automated Test System is a portable diagnostic testing tool that offers real-time testing, measurement, diagnosis, and fault detection for operations, logistics, and predictive maintenance in the field.
Apache Boeing's Modernized Apache concept builds on the mature, combat-proven AH-64 platform and combines cutting-edge technologies to deliver greater reach, survivability, and lethality, starting with the integration of Launched Effects through Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). (Image: Boeing)

Global Strike — Expediting response to threats and promoting global interoperability

  • AH-64 Apache modernization is demonstrating the combat-proven Apache’s ability to absorb the newest capabilities to increase reach, survivability and lethality while paving the way forward for rapid capability integration through a Modular Open Systems Approach — enabling it to remain a dominant element of Army aviation.
  • A beneficiary of ongoing AH-64 modernization efforts and the aircraft of choice for Army Special Operations Aviation for more than 40 years, the AH-6 Little Bird light attack helicopter combines a purpose-built military fuselage with superior performance and flexible, easily configurable mission equipment to effectively execute a wide range of missions.
  • Boeing’s increasingly sophisticated Patriot Advanced Capability-3 seekers act as the "eyes" of the system — enabling it to identify, track, and intercept advanced air and missile threats ranging from tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hostile aircraft.
  • The Compact Laser Weapon System, a scalable, modular high energy air defense solution, recently returned from a multiyear overseas deployment and has defeated hundreds of drones in dozens of demonstrations and environments.
  • The Boeing-Nammo Ramjet 155 is an innovative and affordable artillery projectile for the Army's top modernization priority of long-range precision fires — utilizing an air-breathing engine design for enormous range increases.
  • Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb is a rapidly deployable, adaptable and affordable long-range precision fires capability that integrates Boeing's proven Small Diameter Bomb I (SDB I) with a surface-based launch platform.
  • Boeing’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor aims to provide the Army with enhanced, deep magazine and affordable defense against advanced cruise missile threats.
PAC-3 A PAC-3 missile with Boeing-built seeker launches to intercept a target. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

Finally, the company’s approach to developing innovative solutions across defense and services through digital design, autonomy, rapid modular prototypes and advanced manufacturing capabilities, enables it to effectively differentiate its solutions and outpace emerging threats.

That’s how Boeing plans to deliver decisive mission advantage for Soldiers and enable Army transformation.