Boeing Improves Testing Efficiency on USAF WGS Satellite Program

(El Segundo, Calif., September 3, 2008) -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] technicians prepare the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for an around-the-clock sequence of tests inside a thermal-vacuum chamber at the company's satellite manufacturing facility. Boeing recently completed thermal-vacuum testing of the third satellite in record time, as a result of continuous improvements in testing efficiency. Boeing is building six WGS satellites for the U.S. Air Force; the first was put into operation in April.

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