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Boeing’s Digital Leadership Shaping New Era for Defense, Aerospace

Boeing’s Digital Leadership Shaping New Era for Defense, Aerospace

The U.S. Department of Defense has called on industry to embrace digital engineering to rapidly deliver new warfighter capabilities and Boeing is accelerating that change.

In August 2020, Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr., chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, issued a report on the strategic challenges ahead for the service and the consequences of failure to the nation. In “Accelerate Change or Lose,” Gen. Brown proclaims, “If we fail to adapt to the changes in the strategic environment, a large and growing body of evidence suggests that we risk losing in great power competition.”

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