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PHOTOS: (Below and inset left) Operations lead Norm Rowe, left, and Hal Swanson review an upcoming training procedure in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Training Facility. (Opposite page, employee insets clockwise from top left) Anna Caudle; Nicholas Antoine; Mike Hansen, left, and Stephen Clark; Chris Hartman. bob ferguson/boeing (Inset top right) A PAC-3 Patriot missile is test-fired. Boeing makes the seeker portion, which serves as the missile’s “eyes.” lockheed Stars in Alabama 24 BOEING FRONTIERS / SEPTEMBER 2012
AT A GLANCE / BOEING HUNTSVILLE Boeing’s offices and production facilities in Huntsville, Ala., are home to a variety of programs, mainly related to space exploration, strategic missiles and design engineering. Some of the notable businesses at the site: Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3 – Boeing’s Missiles and Unmanned Airborne Systems division has produced nearly 1,500 PAC-3 missile seekers for prime contractor Lockheed Martin. Ground-based Midcourse Defense – The only missile defense system to protect the United States from long-range ballistic missiles. It uses an array of sea, land and space-based sensors, and interceptors based in Alaska and California, to track and destroy the ballistic missiles. Boeing is prime contractor and is responsible for development, production and sustainment of the system’s elements. Design Center, said he’s seen a diverse range of programs, heritage companies and employees from other Boeing sites converge over the past 27 years. “Huntsville has been a melting pot of companies and corporate cultures, as well as the cultures you get from across the country,” he said. “It’s been interesting to watch how it all melded and fit in Huntsville very nicely.” New arrivals often are surprised to find that the north-central Alabama area boasts one of the highest per-capita populations of engineers and residents with doctorate degrees in the United States. In addition to Boeing, a long list of other defense-related firms have offices in Huntsville, which also is home to NASA Marshall <strong>Space</strong> Flight Center, the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal and Cummings Research Park, the second-largest research park in the United States and fourth-largest research and technology park in the world. In 2009, Forbes magazine named Huntsville one of the smartest cities in the world, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked the Huntsville area’s economy as No. 1 in the nation and given it high marks as a place to raise families. “Huntsville, to me, is just a hotbed of stateof-the-art technology,” said Dan Day, quality assurance manager for the GMD program and a Huntsville employee since 1981. “You don’t realize what’s here until you come and see it.” Like many others at Boeing Huntsville, Day mentions the “freedom” of working at a small site, where employees frequently move between programs. “You don’t have to move across the country to diversify your portfolio,” said Terrence Chance, a senior business analyst with the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB program who joined Boeing in 2004. Ryanne Jones, a product review engineer with the GMD program, echoed that thought: “I like the site because there are so many opportunities to work on different projects and systems,” said Jones, who grew up in Alabama and graduated from nearby University of Alabama–Huntsville. “There are so many things Boeing does that you can apply to your job, no matter what your engineering background.” Longtime employees end up crossing back and forth with other programs beyond Huntsville. Those who worked for years supporting the International <strong>Space</strong> Station program, for example, BOEING FRONTIERS / SEPTEMBER 2012 25
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