George Muellner, president of Boeing’s Advanced Systems unit, says the company has restructured over the past year to align with the defense market. “We had a good year,” he told reporters at a company briefing at AFA’s Air & Space Conference in Washington, D.C., “but the DOD market is shrinking.” His unit is now focused on generating new business by stretching out to new customers—Coast Guard, civil agencies, and international—and offering fast-turnaround demonstrations of what technologies the company can offer. “We are increasing our ability to rapidly prototype,” he said. “In the last years, we’ve lost the rapid” aspect of that approach.
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
Sept. 15, 2026
NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
