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By Lorenzo Cortes
With the formal opening of Boeing's [BA] eastern integration center (BIC) in Arlington, Va., yesterday, the company is proceeding along a path where it is trying to bring the core competencies of its many sectors into a manageable networked environment, according to company officials.
"If you look at the most basic of strategies that we have in the Boeing Co. and certainly Integrated Defense Systems--[it is] to have the ability to horizontally integrate across the entire enterprise," Jim Albaugh, Boeing's president and CEO of Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), said yesterday during a briefing at...