Boeing goes ballistic

Boeing has received $78.2m from Northrop Grumman to deploy a replacement Environmental Control System for over 550 US Air Force Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch facilities.

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to deploy a replacement Environmental Control System (ECS) for over 550 US Air Force Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launch, missile alert and Class 1 trainer facilities.

The ECS regulates climate controls and ensures that electronics and ground support systems are maintained at specified pre-set temperatures in launch control centres and launch facilities.

The current Minuteman ECS, in use for more than 40 years, has been the focus of a redesign effort over the past decade. Boeing will remove the current ECS before installing and testing the new one. A separate contractor will manufacture the replacement systems. The contract calls for the work to be completed by 2011.

Boeing, a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems on the Air Force ICBM program, is also responsible for supporting the sustaining engineering and modernisation efforts under way for the silo-based ICBM fleet and supports the Minuteman Force Development Evaluation flight test program at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

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