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Investing in the Future of Innovation

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

Teams across the global ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ drives innovation that will transform aerospace and defense as we know it. Making it all possible is the ingenuity and passion ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ employees and global partners demonstrate when developing innovations that help blaze new trails.

Our People

Engineering excellence is core to ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’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. ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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.

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

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

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Flash forward

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

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Standing up to the heat

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ materials scientist Vann Heng develops advanced ceramics technologies that withstand extreme environments.

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From the pit to the factory floor

A Georgia Tech Alumnus Charts a New Path at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ.
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Women in engineering

Working behind the scenes on NASA’s EPFD program
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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. ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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. ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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.

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Advanced Air Mobility

Wisk is the developer of the world’s first self-flying, all-electric, four-seat eVTOL air taxi. Wisk is an independent company, backed by The ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Company and Kitty Hawk Corporation.

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The MQ-25 vehicle

Built for safety and stability in one of the harshest environments on Earth, the MQ-25 is an unmanned aerial refueler, which will take off from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and provide fuel to naval aircraft in order to help extend their range.

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Advancing Innovation

In October 2022, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences debuted the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Aerospace & Autonomy Center (BAAC) at the gateway to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.

Digital transformation

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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.

Inkjet printed livery for Alaska Airlines 737-9.
New livery printing process could offer advantages

Whale of a tail: Global ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ teams develop first inkjet-printed, photo-realistic livery for Alaska Airlines 737-9.

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New cloud partnerships strengthen ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ's digital foundation

Strategic partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft provide employees connected digital solutions.

Fabrication specialist Matthew Kingston prepares a new order at the Sheffield factory (Teresa Kuhn photo).
New software update drives future state of manufacturing

Sheffield, England, team implements digital innovation to meet higher production rates.

Producibility

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’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.

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Additive Manufacturing

Dr. Melissa Orme, vice president of ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Additive Manufacturing, shares how ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ has been at the forefront of additive manufacturing in aerospace for decades and how ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ continues to be a path finder for future applications.

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Linerless Cryogen Tank

In late 2021, we conducted testing with NASA on a new type of large, fully composite, linerless cryogenic fuel tank, designed and manufactured by ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ.

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Let's Connect: Digital Thread Advances Manufacturing

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

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Small ID tags have big impact on ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ manufacturing

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

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F-15 teammates become manufacturing pathfinders

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s advanced manufacturing using digital engineering is transforming how aircraft will be built in the future.

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Sustainable aviation

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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

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

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ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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.

X-66: Bracing for the next big wing

Engineers explain the origin of an airplane with truss-braced wings that could shape the next decade.

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ 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.

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ, 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 ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Airplanes team working to advance operational efficiency.