Sentences with phrase «aerospace giant»

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

European aerospace giant Airbus is debuting its on - demand helicopter booking platform, Voom, in Mexico City on Thursday in an effort to drum up demand for choppers among well - heeled urban commuters sick of spending hours in traffic.

Norman Augustine, a former CEO of aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, declared that the best of his 80,000 employees were those with good communication and thinking skills.

The layoffs represent close to 10 per cent of Bombardier's global workforce and are expected to take place over the next two years, the Montreal aerospace giant said.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected the Maryland - based aerospace giant yesterday in...

The organizers of the contest, which is being sponsored by aerospace giant Boeing, say they want to incentivize teams of students, engineers, and inventors to develop a vertical take - off and landing device (or one that is nearly VTOL) that is safe, quiet, ultra-compact, and capable of carrying a single person 20 miles or more without refueling or recharging.

The airline has been in the crosshairs in a trade conflict in which U.S. aerospace giant Boeing accused Canadian rival Bombardier of selling its new C Series planes to Delta below the cost of production.

The Houston - based Space Exploration division of aerospace giant Boeing will receive $ 18 million to help it develop a crew capsule it hopes will one day carry NASA astronauts into space.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected the Maryland - based aerospace giant yesterday in a competition that ran more than 2 years longer than expected and featured a record seven bidders, including incumbent Raytheon Polar Services.

When the United States Department of Commerce announced it would be imposing a 219 % tax on jets built by Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier on Tuesday night, the outcry was swift.

Consider that under the proposed deal multinational aerospace giant Airbus will take a 50.01 per cent stake in Bombardier's C Series project and move some of the production to a plant in Alabama.

CNBC recently went inside three private jets manufactured by Embraer, the Brazilian aerospace giant.

At issue was whether the Canadian government's plentiful assistance to the hapless aerospace giant constitutes unfair state intervention.

He says he was «happy» to negotiate with the French company rather than Boeing, the American aerospace giant that could have been Bombardier's partner in the C Series.

That was thwarted by another major shareholder and, in 2011, the company was sold for $ 625 - million to a division of European aerospace giant EADS NV.

This year, a surprising number of projects are getting under way around the world, helmed not by quixotic visionaries but by hard - nosed pragmatists such as those at aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.

The US aerospace giant GM Hughes Electronics, which started its DirecTV service six months ago, already has two satellites in space and will launch a third in the second half of this year.

The European aerospace giant posted a series of photos today from its Vahana project, showing its team working on a pair of single - seat, tilt - rotor vehicles with a paint job that would make a Stormtrooper envious.

In 2011, D - Wave made its first sale, to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which bought the early D - Wave One model.

A driver-less flying taxi developed by aerospace giant Airbus has taken one step closer to reality.

The Chicago - based aerospace giant is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop a heavy - lift rocket called the Space Launch System for deep space exploration.

A driverless flying taxi developed by aerospace giant Airbus has taken one step closer to reality with the awarding of a testing contract.

Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare on Thursday defended the discounting of new airplanes, a day after the Trump administration threw more support behind U.S. aerospace giant Boeing in a bitter trade dispute with its Canadian rival.

Airbus executive Klaus Richter made the comment Tuesday alongside Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, who spent the second day of his French tour at the facilities of the European aerospace giant in Toulouse.

Muilenburg says the aerospace giant is trying to «find strategic acquisitions that complement our organic investment in services.»

CEO Dennis Muilenburg told CNBC's Phill LeBeau that growing the services unit is «a top priority» as the aerospace giant tries to «find strategic acquisitions that complement our organic investment in services.»

Bombardier, Canada's pre-eminent industrial manufacturer, for example, wants Carney to know that all its cash holdings are, in fact, alive and well, and being pressed into service to develop the aerospace giant's newest line of jets.

The aerospace giant's venture arm Boeing HorizonX Ventures has taken a minority stake in battery start - up Cuberg, Boeing said Monday.

The aerospace giant on Wednesday said it will increase production of 767 planes from 2.5 to 3 a month starting in 2020.

That kind of budgeting could save Boeing a high - profile deal to keep the U.S. President up in the air, but either way investors have bigger issues with the aerospace giant right now.

The aerospace giant these days is actively marketing its next generation of commercial airliner, the CSeries, as well as boosting sales of its private jet lines.

The state - of - the - art method for accomplishing this is Boeing's Delta IV rocket, which cost the aerospace giant roughly $ 2.5 billion to design and build.

In addition to the aerospace giant Boeing ($ 1 million donated) and the oil company Chevron ($ 500,000), AT&T, Verizon, and Coca - Cola are among the big companies helping fund the galas, balls, and other pomp and circumstance welcoming Trump to the White House on Friday.

The European aerospace giant Airbus has announced an upgraded version of the world's biggest passenger jet, the A380.

The aerospace giant has been in deal talks with Brazil's Embraer, the maker of smaller regional jets, the companies said this week.

The strong start to 2018 enabled the aerospace giant to raise its full - year earnings forecast by 50 cents, to a range of $ 16.40 to $ 16.60 per share, while maintaining its revenue outlook at a range of $ 96 billion to $ 98 billion.

European aerospace giant Airbus is Boeing's archrival.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted a challenge on Twitter after Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said on Thursday that his aerospace giant would transport the first humans to Mars.

It's not just old, aerospace giants that have long and storied connections to the Pentagon.

It's not just old, aerospace giants that have long and storied connections to the Pentagon — big, new companies such as Google also have very close ties.

In October, European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, said it would take a majority stake in the CSeries program, in a twist.

Aerospace giant Boeing was down 3.2 %.

The biggest drags on the Dow in addition to Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) were 3M (NYSE: MMM) which fell after it lowered its full - year profit forecast and aerospace giant Boeing (NYSE: BA) which fell in sympathy with the rest of the sector.

Following G.E., Boeing announced on Tuesday that it had lost a bid to sell satellites to a Singapore - based satellite operator, Kacific, because the aerospace giant did not have the backing of a governmental export - credit agency.

Shares in the aerospace giant jumped by one - tenth on Thursday following an 8 percent rise in operating profit, higher than analysts expected.

You may know Airbus as that Boeing competitor that also makes planes, but the European company is in fact an defense and aerospace giant that makes...