Boeing is delivering military capability and developing UK-based expertise in some key technology areas as well as enhancing skills, particularly in the systems engineering domain.

The company’s onshore capabilities are growing in the areas of Network Enabled Capability as well as sustainment, and Boeing recognises that the Defence Industrial Strategy provides the company with an opportunity to make a long-term positive impact on the industrial base. The network-enabled land systems domain is serving as a catalyst to change Boeing’s industrial footprint in the UK following the establishment of a new facility in Bristol, from which the company will address a variety of programmes. Drawing on Boeing’s world-class programme management and systems engineering and integration expertise from US transformational programmes, including the US Army’s Future Combat Systems, Boeing is applying the UK customer’s vision of the integrated battlespace to several programmes.

Another aspect of Boeing’s growing UK presence is a new centre for collaboration and experimentation, known as The Portal, located at the Cody Technology Park site in Farnborough. This facility, established in partnership with QinetiQ, will offer customers the latest in immersive modelling, simulation and analysis tools in order to enable commercial and military customers to define requirements, evolve capabilities and discover new technologies in a multitude of scenarios.

To support the UK defence industrial base in marketing, competing, and capturing US defence opportunities, Boeing’s UK Industrial Participation programme has delivered in excess of $4B in exports of UK products and services over the past 13 years.