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  Boeing thinks big on R&D 

  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22493932-23349,00.html

  BOEING wants to build a larger research and development presence in Australia to complement its $800 million investment in local defence and component manufacturing businesses. Australia is now the corporation's ... largest footprint outside the US with about 4000 employees scattered around 26 different sites and annual revenues climbing towards the billion-dollar mark. Boeing's military business in Australia is booming - the company now supplies a large part of the RAAF's new airborne capability, ranging from strategic airlift and airborne early-warning aircraft to combat fighters and helicopters. "We are studying having a large R&D presence in the country. There are a lot of unique capabilities in Australia for the Boeing company," Craig Saddler, president of Boeing Australia, told The Australian yesterday. As well as developing its military and commercial aviation businesses, Boeing is teaming with the University of Queensland on researching hypersonic aircraft using scramjet techno   [More...] [Less...]

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