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The labor standoff comes during an already challenging year for Boeing, which became the focus of multiple federal investigations earlier this year.

Boeing machinists are voting on a proposed contract that could end the nearly six-week strike.

Through the effort, Boeing hopes to learn more about how to build quantum networks that could prove transformational for a number of industries.

Ortberg, a former CEO at Boeing supplier Rockwell Collins, will succeed David Calhoun as CEO and president effective Aug. 8.

Should the Airbus aircraft be picked, it would mark an important shift for Italy after relying on Boeing tankers for over a decade.

The purchase would reverse a longtime Boeing strategy of outsourcing key work on its passenger planes.

If Boeing ends up acquiring Spirit, it would bring the aircraft component manufacturer back under Boeing's wing for the first time in nearly two decades.

Boeing said the companies that produced the parts with quality problems acted quickly to fix them, and it is moving to finish building the final test jets.