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Boeing Company

Violations of Anti-Trust Laws

Date: 12/05/1996 (Date of Administrative Agreement)

Misconduct Type: Antitrust

Enforcement Agency: FTC

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Administrative

Amount: $0

Disposition: Administrative Agreement

Synopsis: “The Boeing Company will settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its $3.025 billion acquisition of Rockwell International Corporation's Aerospace and Defense business would violate antitrust laws. The FTC charged that the proposed deal would violate antitrust laws by reducing competition in two markets: high altitude endurance unmanned air vehicles and space launch vehicles, including the Department of Defense’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program…The agreement to settle the charges would forbid Boeing from making any space launch vehicle manufacturer’s non-public information available to its launch vehicle division and would allow Boeing to use a competitor's proprietary, non-public information only in its capacity as a provider of launch vehicle propulsion systems.”