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Boeing in Brief

Boeing is a leading global aerospace company that develops, manufactures, and services commercial airplanes, defense products, and space systems. It employs over 140,000 people worldwide and leverages suppliers across the globe. Boeing is organized into three business units: Commercial Airplanes, Defense, Space & Security, and Boeing Global Services. It strives to innovate, lead in sustainability, and maintain the highest ethical standards in all of its business operations.

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Boeing in Brief

Boeing is a leading global aerospace company that develops, manufactures, and services commercial airplanes, defense products, and space systems. It employs over 140,000 people worldwide and leverages suppliers across the globe. Boeing is organized into three business units: Commercial Airplanes, Defense, Space & Security, and Boeing Global Services. It strives to innovate, lead in sustainability, and maintain the highest ethical standards in all of its business operations.

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Boeing in Brief

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and


services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers
in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the
talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and
community impact. Boeing’s diverse team is committed to innovating for the future,
leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core
values of safety, quality and integrity.

Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. The company
continues to expand its product line and services to meet emerging customer needs.
Its broad range of capabilities includes creating new, more efficient members of its
commercial airplane family; designing, building and integrating military platforms
and defense systems; creating advanced technology solutions; and arranging
innovative financing and service options for customers.

With corporate offices near Washington, D.C., Boeing employs more than 140,000
people across the United States and in more than 65 countries. This represents one
of the most diverse, talented and innovative workforces anywhere. Our enterprise
also leverages the talents of hundreds of thousands more skilled people working for
Boeing suppliers worldwide.

Boeing is organized into three business units: Commercial Airplanes; Defense, Space
& Security; and Boeing Global Services. Supporting these units is Boeing Capital
Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions.

In addition, functional organizations working across the company focus on


engineering and program management; technology and development-program
execution; advanced design and manufacturing systems; safety, finance, quality and
productivity improvement and information technology.

Commercial Airplanes
Boeing has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades.
Today, the company manufactures the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 families of
airplanes and the Boeing Business Jet range. New product development efforts
include the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, the 737 MAX, and the 777X. More than 10,000
Boeing-built commercial jetliners are in service worldwide, which is almost half the
world fleet. The company also offers the most complete family of freighters, and
about 90 percent of the world’s cargo is carried onboard Boeing planes.

Defense, Space & Security


Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a diversified, global organization providing
leading solutions for the design, production, modification, service and support of
commercial derivatives, military rotorcraft, satellites, human space exploration and
autonomous systems. It helps customers address a host of requirements through a
broad portfolio that includes KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft, based on the Boeing 767
commercial airplane; AH-64 Apache helicopter; the 702 family of satellites; CST-100
Starliner spacecraft; and the autonomous Echo Voyager. Driven by the Boeing vision
to connect, protect, explore and inspire the world through aerospace innovation,
BDS is seeking ways to better leverage information technologies and continues to
invest in the research and development of enhanced capabilities and platforms.

Boeing Global Services


As the leading manufacturer for commercial and defense platforms, Boeing is
positioned to provide unparalleled aftermarket support for mixed fleets worldwide.
Boeing Global Services delivers innovative, comprehensive and cost-competitive
service solutions for commercial, defense and space customers, regardless of the
equipment's original manufacturer. With engineering, digital analytics, supply chain
and training support spanning across both the government and commercial service
offerings, Boeing Global Services’ unsurpassed, around-the-clock support keeps our
customers’ commercial aircraft operating at high efficiency, and provides mission
assurance for nations around the world.

The Boeing Company’s business is conducted by its employees, managers and


corporate officers led by the chief executive officer, with oversight from the Board of
Directors. The Board's Governance & Public Policy Committee periodically reviews
the Company's corporate governance principles and current practices.

The Board and the corporate officers recognize that the long-term interests of the
company are advanced when they are responsive to the concerns of communities,
customers, employees, public officials, shareholders and suppliers.

Additionally, the Board has adopted a Code of Ethical Business Conduct, to focus
the Board and each Director on areas of ethical risk, provide guidance to help them
continue to effectively recognize and deal with ethical issues, enhance existing
mechanisms to continue the reporting of unethical conduct, and help to continue to
foster and sustain a culture of honesty and accountability. Directors agree to comply
with the Corporate Governance Principles and the Code of Ethical Business Conduct,
as well as all other applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, ethics,
conflict of interest, confidentiality, stock ownership and trading policies, and
guidelines of the Company. Compliance, including anti-corruption topics, is
discussed periodically with the Board.

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