Investing in the Future of Innovation

There’s more innovation underway today at Boeing than at any time in our storied history.

Teams across the global Boeing network are transforming how we design and build our products, the systems that enable us to work more efficiently, and the work we do to improve the environmental performance of our products and internal operations.

With more than $3 billion invested annually in research and development, Boeing drives innovation that will transform aerospace and defense as we know it. Making it all possible is the ingenuity and passion Boeing employees and global partners demonstrate when developing innovations that help blaze new trails.

Our People

Engineering excellence is core to Boeing’s culture. The work we do across commercial, space, defense and services changes the world, and our engineers are at the forefront.

As a global company, in a global industry, we develop global talent, and we’re committed to attracting the very best people to join our team from across the world. Boeing is hiring across multiple engineering disciplines and at all levels of experience, from recent university graduates to more senior engineers and technical lead engineers to help drive success.

TOUGH TEST: Boeing engineer Jacquelynn Tian, left, and Boeing chemist Ha Le prepare resin for product acceptance testing to verify the material meets Boeing’s specification requirements.
Strength to Strength

Radial braiding balances toughness and strength of composite structures

SAIL SET: Off the shores of Auckland, New Zealand, Richard Didham races a moth sailboat, which uses hydrofoils to lift the hull out of the water, significantly increasing speed. PHOTO: COURTESY OF RICHARD DIDHAM
Wings, Wind and Water

Software expertise and sailing experience give engineer a competitive edge

Dale Smith and his father.
Family ties fuel passion for sustainability

Dale Smith witnessed Boeing’s evolution with Sustainable Aviation Fuel and now helps advance it.

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Flash forward

Boeing’s partnership with Cambridge University provides insight into how lightning strikes may affect airplane parts.

Autonomous capabilities

With more than a century of aerospace experience, we have the opportunity and responsibility to ensure the next century of flight is safer than the first. Boeing is uniquely positioned to deliver a holistic approach to automation and autonomy solutions for aerospace. Our primary interest in autonomy is to improve the safety of our products.

To address the growing challenges of sustainable, economical and accessible modes of transportation, we are re-imagining the future of flight and mobility. Boeing is focusing on emerging technologies, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations and the safe introduction of these vehicles into the airspace—while preserving the flying public’s confidence in air travel.

We’re investing in the future by developing technology in key areas such as Smart Factory, human-robotics collaboration and technology-enabled quality systems to enable breakthrough transformations across our production system.

Learn more about some of our autonomy applications.

IMAGINATION MEETS INNOVATION: Boeing NeXt teammates collaborated with Disney Imagineers to craft aeroshells that fit over NeXt’s eVTOL cargo air vehicles (CAVs) to create autonomous X-wing Starfighters.
eVTOL Evolution

Innovation and imagination empower advancements in air mobility

MQ-25
From ‘What If’ to ‘Watch This’

Engineers demo a new way for manned and unmanned aircraft to talk, and mum is not the word

Digital transformation

Boeing has launched a coordinated and integrated approach to all digital efforts to support our next suite of products within a digital ecosystem. The comprehensive digital environment provides stability and predictability and will allow new products, production systems including the supply chain, and the support system to be designed together.

It is an enterprise effort that will shape how we design, build, test and service products far into the future. Model-based engineering production systems will be designed with the same engineering rigor as the airplane itself. This allows us to see how a change in one affects the other and better predict the performance of both.

Our goal is to establish a new paradigm for aerospace manufacturing and ultimately flatten the traditional notion of a learning curve.

Material Machine
Material Machine

Custom machine adds vertical production to vertical lift

Print. Test. Repeat: Visualizing fixes with 3D tech

Liaison engineers use 3D printing to turn production problems into hands-on solutions — cutting wait times from months to hours.

Producibility

Boeing’s work in producibility rests on the foundation of our decades-long investment in composite materials and manufacturing. We are embracing and investing in digital innovation and advanced manufacturing techniques to strengthen our production system, deliver on our commitment to quality and safety, and harness productivity enhancements.

We’re investing in the future by developing technology in key areas such as automation, Smart Factory, human-robotics collaboration and technology-enabled quality systems to enable breakthrough transformations across our production system.

We’re committed to leveraging technologies that reduce tedious manual tasks and capture rich, real-time data in order to improve safety and quality, while ushering in new advanced techniques, processes, tooling and systems.

Astronauts in outerspace.
Add It Up

Discover how additive manufacturing will shape aerospace — and already has

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Let's Connect: Digital Thread Advances Manufacturing

Smart factories thrive on data and drive quality improvements for aerospace.

RFID Tags
Small ID tags have big impact on Boeing manufacturing

Radio frequency tags are building blocks for a Smart Factory transformation.

Sustainable aviation

Boeing is working across the industry to achieve a safer and more sustainable aerospace future. This will require a multi-faceted approach, including investing in and accelerating innovation through advanced technologies.

X-66 model breezes through 1st wind tunnel tests

Boeing’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator completes key step toward design validation, setting up future tech breakthroughs.

Aerospace Together.
Boeing Cascade Climate Impact model supports aviation's future

Explore the data modeling tool that identifies the effects of a range of sustainability solutions to reduce aviation's carbon emissions.

Boeing ecoDemonstrator lands its first 10 tests

The program proves the efficiency benefits of landing procedures among the 10 technologies it validated in latest testing.

A passion for propulsion helps fuel the future of flight

Engineer and team advance renewable energy sources and innovative technology.

Thinking beyond the tailpipe: The story of SAF

Animated video explains what makes sustainable aviation fuel sustainable.

Liquid Asset: The Way to 100% SAF is fluid

Team aims to enable 100% sustainable aviation fuel-compatible airplanes by 2030.

Engineer’s nurturing ways help pilot apps thrive

Software architect knows the value of do-overs to grow his garden — and flight-operations efficiency.

Boeing, Aurora come up AACES with future aircraft research

Companies will work with NASA and university partners to explore new environmental aircraft designs.

A pathfinder for airlines

Bill Peterson is part of a Commercial Airplanes team working to advance operational efficiency.

Intern Voices