Boeing
This morning, the company announced a 10-plane deal from the Indian Ministry of Defense for delivery of the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft. At roughly $191 million apiece, the contract is worth $1.9 billion to Boeing, eclipsing the value of the six-plane C-130J deal that Lockheed Martin
$2 billion here, $2 billion there ...
Granted, these contracts don't yet add up to "real money" for Boeing, which does $64 billion in annual business globally. The company will need to land more (and bigger) contracts if it hopes to make up the shortfall from a retrenching Pentagon.
But that does seem to be the plan, for both Boeing and the Pentagon itself. As U.S. taxpayers rebel at the high cost of defending not just U.S. interests, but subsidizing the security needs of others, we're going to see more and more deals like the one inked in India this week.
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