HONOLULU–Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS), the commercial satellite arm of Boeing [NYSE: BA], has used current global market circumstances to “look at what is really core to our business,” President Randy Brinkley told SATELLITE TODAY here at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference. “We’re faced with reality,” Brinkley said. “We will have to re-size to that reality while maintaining the quality of what we procure and what we produce.”

Last year, BSS resolved a number of issues related to spacecraft in-orbit reliability. Brinkley said his company this year needs “to focus on implementation.” Predicting a “gradual shift” in the marketplace, Brinkley predicted that BSS would “win six and possibly more” of an estimated 15 to 17 commercial satellite procurements worldwide this year. The upturn should continue in 2004, Brinkley said.

–Scott Chase