Verified
Boeing
Piloting- Aerospace
- ~182,000 staff (2025)
- Boeing Conversational AI, built in-house
- 70+ gen AI apps
- CIDO reports to CEO
- No AI ROI disclosed
Boeing deploys AI through Boeing Conversational AI, a generative AI platform rolled out company-wide in 2023 that reached more than 170,000 employees, and more than 70 generative AI applications such as Code Assistant and AskBoeing (Dec 2025). Chief Information Digital Officer Dana Deasy owns enterprise IT, data and AI, a chief AI and autonomy officer under the CTO leads product AI, and the businesses add Palantir Foundry in defense factories and Dataliner, built on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. Boeing has published no AI spending or AI-credited financial return.
boeing.comTheir approach to AI
- The platform
- Boeing Conversational AI, unveiled in 2023 as Boeing's first large-scale generative AI platform, lets employees query company data inside Boeing's network; Boeing ran more than 70 generative AI applications by Dec 2025.
- The models
- Boeing has not named the models behind Boeing Conversational AI; Dataliner runs on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, defense factories use Palantir Foundry, a Boeing team trained large language models on Boeing data, and research teams adapt open models (Jan 2026).
- The reach
- Boeing Conversational AI reached more than 170,000 Boeing employees by late 2023, with 22,000 active users in Nov 2024, the latest figure; the GenAI Academy had trained 8,000 employees by Dec 2025.
- The catch
- Boeing has published no AI spending, no usage figure since Nov 2024 and no AI-credited return; Kelly Ortberg called AI critically important in Jul 2026 but did not mention it on the Jan 27 or Oct 27, 2026 earnings calls.
Snapshot
- Employees
- ~182,000
- Dec 31, 2025; about 72,000 union members (2025 Form 10-K)
- Technology budget
- Not disclosed
- Research and development expense was $3.6B in 2025, for product development, not AI alone
- AI/ML headcount
- Not disclosed
- 2,600 certified AI super users (Dec 2025); 60,000+ engineers (Apr 2026)
- Who owns AI
- Dana Deasy, CIDO
- Reports to CEO Kelly Ortberg; Vishwa Uddanwadiker leads AI and autonomy under the CTO (Mar 2026)
- Platform
- Boeing Conversational AI
- Unveiled in 2023 as Boeing's first large-scale generative AI platform
- Models
- Not disclosed
- Azure AI Foundry under Dataliner; Palantir Foundry in defense
- Reach
- 170,000+ reached
- Late 2023; 22,000 active users in Nov 2024
- Use cases
- 70+ gen AI apps
- Dec 2025; plus computer vision, part validation and predictive maintenance
Key findings
Boeing unveiled Boeing Conversational AI, its first large-scale generative AI platform, in 2023 and reached more than 170,000 employees by late 2023, but Abhi Seth put active users at 22,000 in a CDO Magazine interview dated Nov 2024, the last usage figure Boeing has given.
Boeing said in Dec 2025 that it runs more than 70 generative AI applications, including Code Assistant for software engineers and the AskBoeing virtual assistant, and that its GenAI Academy had trained 8,000 employees and certified 2,600 super users who build AI solutions.
Dana Deasy, a former U.S. Department of Defense and JPMorgan Chase CIO, has been Boeing's chief information digital officer since Dec 31, 2024, reports to CEO Kelly Ortberg and leads IT, enterprise data analytics and AI, while Vishwa Uddanwadiker, chief AI and autonomy officer, reports to the CTO (Mar 2026) and Abhi Seth is chief AI and data officer (Dec 2025).
Boeing buys platforms for specific businesses: Boeing Defense, Space & Security chose Palantir's Foundry for its factories and Palantir's AI for classified programs in Sep 2025, and Boeing Global Services introduced Dataliner, an airline data platform built with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, on Oct 20, 2026.
Boeing agreed in Aug 2026 to sell its Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid autonomy subsidiaries to Archer Aviation for 19.75% of Archer's Class A shares plus warrants to buy up to $200 million more, keeping access to Wisk's core autonomous flight technology; Boeing expects the deal to close later in 2026.
Where Boeing sits
- Stage
- Piloting
Boeing has reported no business return it credits to AI, for any use case or at the firm level: its 2025 Form 10-K and its Jan and Oct 2026 earnings calls give no AI figure, and its closest measures, more than 17 fewer inspection hours per airplane and office co-pilots that can save up to two hours a day (Dec 2025), are task speedups not stated in cost or output. Boeing has reported a company-wide rollout: Abhi Seth, chief AI and data officer, put active users of the generative AI platform deployed company-wide in 2023 at 22,000 of more than 170,000 reached (CDO Magazine, Nov 2024), and CIDO Dana Deasy, who reports to the CEO, owns IT, data and AI. Boeing is therefore at Piloting; AI-credited returns in two or more functions, or a firm-level AI figure, would move it to Scaling.
How the stages are defined - Ownership
- CIDO Dana Deasy, reporting to the CEO; chief AI and autonomy officer under the CTO
- Platform
- Hybrid: Boeing Conversational AI built in-house; Palantir Foundry and Azure bought
- Models
- Not disclosed for the internal platform; LLMs trained on Boeing data; open models in prototypes
- Hosting
- Internal AI inside Boeing's secure network (host not named; AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft are its clouds since 2022); Dataliner on Microsoft Azure
- Reach
- 170,000+ employees reached (late 2023); 22,000 active (Nov 2024)
How they deploy
One central AI framework with two halves
Boeing restructured its AI work into one centralized framework split into two areas, one to enable Boeing's business and the other to enable its products and customer experiences, according to a Dec 2025 Boeing article. Abhi Seth, chief AI and data officer, and Vishwa Uddanwadiker, whom the article titled chief AI officer, lead the effort, under a stated principle that technology should enhance human capability, not replace it. Boeing's Mar 2026 biography of Uddanwadiker titles him chief artificial intelligence and autonomy officer for Engineering, Test & Technology, reporting to the chief technology officer.
A platform for every employee
Boeing developed Boeing Conversational AI and launched it across the company as a secure interface for employees to query company data, and Abhi Seth said it was designed so staff need not be data scientists to use it. Seth told CDO Magazine in Nov 2024 that the platform lets domain experts test generative AI on their own problems without coding, and that Boeing moved innovation from year-long cycles to 12-week sprints. Kelly Ortberg told Bloomberg Television in Jul 2026 that Boeing uses AI to improve back-office processes and software and hardware design, and plans to build AI into its services and products.
Buy platforms for business units
Boeing's businesses add outside platforms for specific jobs. Boeing Defense, Space & Security chose Palantir's Foundry in Sep 2025 to standardize data analytics across more than a dozen major production lines and tapped Palantir for AI on classified programs; Boeing Global Services introduced Dataliner, built with Microsoft, in Oct 2026; and Boeing Global Services is evaluating Pelico's orchestration software, including initial agentic workflows, for C-17 depot maintenance (Jul 2026).
Keep the autonomy technology, sell the companies
Boeing agreed in Aug 2026 to sell Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to Archer Aviation for a stake in Archer, retaining access to Wisk's core autonomous flight technology for current and next-generation commercial and defense aircraft. Kelly Ortberg said on Sep 16, 2026 that the autonomy technology was a key thing Boeing wanted from its Wisk investment, that Boeing will have a seat on Archer's board, and that the sale spares Boeing a large capital outlay. CTO Lane Ballard listed artificial intelligence and autonomy among Boeing's eight technology priorities in Apr 2026, naming computer vision, reinforcement learning, embedded machine learning and generative AI.
Retain the data services after the Jeppesen sale
Boeing closed the $10.55 billion sale of Jeppesen, ForeFlight, AerData and OzRunways to Thoma Bravo on Nov 3, 2025, keeping a Digital Services portfolio that uses aircraft and fleet data for maintenance, diagnostics and repair. Boeing introduced Dataliner in Oct 2026 as the common intelligence foundation for that portfolio.
- Deployment model
- Boeing runs enterprise AI from Information Digital Technology & Security (IDT&S), the organization CIDO Dana Deasy leads with responsibility for IT, enterprise data analytics, AI and security. A Dec 2025 Boeing story describes a Boeing AI team working with IDT&S and the Boeing Korea Engineering & Technology Center to build an AI part-validation tool for factory inspectors. Engineering and product AI sit under the chief technology officer: Vishwa Uddanwadiker, chief AI and autonomy officer for Engineering, Test & Technology, reports to CTO Lane Ballard and oversees AI research, inventions, regulator engagement and an autonomy mission across programs (Mar 2026). The business units run their own AI and autonomy work: Phantom Works and Boeing Defence Australia for MQ-28 mission autonomy, Space Mission Systems for onboard spacecraft AI, and Boeing Global Services for Dataliner and maintenance planning.
- Model providers
- Boeing has not named the large language models behind Boeing Conversational AI or its more than 70 generative AI applications. Boeing's Mar 2026 biography of Vishwa Uddanwadiker says that, as generative AI chief engineer, he ran an integrated product team training large language models with Boeing data. Dataliner, introduced Oct 20, 2026, is built in partnership with Microsoft on Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft's data solutions, among other technologies. Boeing Defense, Space & Security uses Palantir's Foundry platform across its factories and Palantir's AI expertise on classified programs (Sep 2025). Boeing research teams adapt open models: Space Mission Systems prototyped a lightweight open model tuned for low power on space-grade hardware (Jan 2026), and the Boeing Korea Engineering & Technology Center evaluated open-source speech architectures and adapted a model for offline cabin captions (Sep 2025).
- Data and infrastructure
- Boeing says its AI architecture is designed so no proprietary or regulated information leaves its secure network, with models trained to hold back when data is lacking and responses traced to trusted sources (Dec 2025). Abhi Seth described unified storage such as lakehouses for quality and supply chain data, key master data assets with assigned stewards, and access control by user role because some defense data is restricted to U.S. personnel (Nov 2024). Boeing chose Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft as its cloud providers in Apr 2022 to move applications off on-premises servers, but has not named the cloud that hosts Boeing Conversational AI. Dataliner lets airlines keep their data in their own environments while drawing on Boeing intelligence (Oct 2026).
Platforms and internal tools
Boeing Conversational AI2023
Boeing Conversational AI is Boeing's first large-scale generative AI platform, an interface that lets employees query company data securely inside Boeing's network and test generative AI on their own problems without coding.
- Users
- 170,000+ reached by late 2023; 22,000 active (Nov 2024)
- Models
- Not disclosed
Code AssistantBy Dec 2025
Code Assistant is a Boeing generative AI tool that produces software in seconds; Boeing says it breaks work that once took days down to moments.
AskBoeingBy Dec 2025
AskBoeing is a virtual assistant that can handle thousands of support requests a day, which Boeing says frees technical staff for higher-value work.
AI part-validation toolJan 2024
The AI part-validation tool lets Boeing Commercial Airplanes quality inspectors photograph part tags with a handheld device; optical character recognition reads the serial number, checks it against a part dictionary and logs it in the Aircraft Readiness Log. Boeing AI and the Boeing Korea Engineering & Technology Center led the work with IDT&S, and the tool runs on Renton and Everett production lines.
Palantir Foundry in Boeing Defense, Space & SecuritySep 2025
Boeing Defense, Space & Security adopted Palantir's Foundry platform to standardize data analytics and insights across its geographically dispersed factories, and tapped Palantir for AI on undisclosed classified and proprietary programs.
- Models
- Palantir Foundry
DatalinerOct 2026
Dataliner is a Boeing Global Services data intelligence platform for airlines that combines their aviation data with Boeing aircraft insights for fleet-wide maintenance and operational decisions, without requiring airlines to centralize their data. Dataliner is the foundation for new Digital Services products, including Asset Lifecycle Planning and TechOps AI Agent, and connects to Airplane Health Management, Insight Accelerator and Maintenance Performance Toolbox.
- Models
- Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and other technologies
Transportation Intelligence EnvironmentAug 2025
The Transportation Intelligence Environment, built by a Boeing software subsidiary for the U.S. military's ICODES load-planning system, packages nine experimental AI and machine learning services, including a cargo assistant and a help chat agent. The U.S. government selected eight of the nine for full development, with production deployment targeted for Jun 2026.
Vendors and partners
MicrosoftApr 2022 (cloud)
Cloud provider; Azure AI Foundry and data services under Dataliner; Azure under the Virtual Airplane training product · Boeing named Microsoft one of its cloud providers in Apr 2022, built Dataliner in partnership with Microsoft (Oct 2026) and launched its Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Flight Simulator in Nov 2025.
Amazon Web ServicesApr 2022
Cloud provider · Boeing has not said whether any of its AI runs on AWS.
Google CloudApr 2022
Cloud provider · Boeing has not said whether any of its AI runs on Google Cloud.
PalantirSep 2025
Foundry platform across Boeing Defense, Space & Security factories; AI expertise on classified programs · Boeing and Palantir announced the partnership at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sep 23, 2025.
Pelico
AI-enabled manufacturing orchestration software for Boeing Global Services · An earlier Pelico deployment in Boeing Global Services commercial spare parts operations was extended beyond its initial term, and a Jul 2026 memorandum of understanding covers C-17 heavy maintenance.
Archer AviationAug 2026
Buyer of Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid; Boeing takes a stake and keeps access to Wisk's autonomy technology · Boeing receives 19.75% of Archer's Class A shares and two warrants for up to $200 million more; Insitu, Wisk Aero and SkyGrid assets of $688 million were held for sale at Sep 30, 2026.
NASA2025
Test partner for Boeing's digital taxi and auto taxi technologies · Boeing Test & Evaluation ran the taxi demonstrations with a Cessna Caravan at a NASA facility in California (Jun 2025).
Leadership
AI, data and platform leaders
Executives
AI org map
Enterprise AI and data under the CIDO, engineering and product AI under the CTO, autonomy work in the business units
Boeing's Jan 2025 release says Chief Information Digital Officer Dana Deasy oversees IT, information security and data and analytics, reports to CEO Kelly Ortberg and sits on the Executive Council, and Deasy's Boeing biography adds artificial intelligence to his remit. Boeing described its AI work in Dec 2025 as one centralized framework, led by chief AI and data officer Abhi Seth and Vishwa Uddanwadiker, split between enabling the business and enabling products and customer experiences; Boeing's Mar 2026 biography places Uddanwadiker, as chief AI and autonomy officer, under the chief technology officer. Product autonomy and AI also sit in Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Boeing Global Services and Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Boeing has not disclosed how many AI or data specialists it employs. Boeing's AI work sits in Information Digital Technology & Security under CIDO Dana Deasy, which houses the enterprise Boeing AI team; under CTO Lane Ballard, where chief AI and autonomy officer Vishwa Uddanwadiker leads engineering and product AI within an engineering community of more than 60,000 engineers (Apr 2026); and in business-unit and overseas engineering teams such as the AI team at the Boeing Korea Engineering & Technology Center. Boeing's GenAI Academy had certified 2,600 employees as super users who build AI solutions by Dec 2025.
Reporting lines
President and CEO
Information Digital Technology & Security
Dana Deasy, CIDO
IT, enterprise data analytics, AI, cybersecurity, physical security and fire protection (Jan 2025 release and Boeing bio)
Enterprise AI and Data
Abhi Seth, Chief AI and Data Officer
Line inferred from Deasy's remit over AI and data; not published
Global Security Governance Council
Terry Rice, Chief Security Officer
Rice reports directly to the CIDO (2025 Form 10-K)
Engineering, Test & Technology
Howard McKenzie, Chief Engineer
Engineering & Technology Innovation
Lane Ballard, CTO
Created Mar 2026 by combining technology teams and the Functional Chief Engineer office; line to McKenzie inferred
AI and Autonomy
Vishwa Uddanwadiker, Chief AI & Autonomy Officer
Reports to the CTO (Mar 2026 Boeing biography); AI research, inventions, regulator engagement and the autonomy mission
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Stephanie Pope, President and CEO
Commercial Airplanes Product Development
Brian Yutko
Brian Yutko spoke for Boeing on the Archer transaction; Wisk Aero and SkyGrid are reported outside the business segments (Q3 2026 Form 10-Q)
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Steve Parker, President and CEO
Palantir Foundry across factories (Sep 2025); Insitu sits in this segment until its sale to Archer
Space Mission Systems
Onboard AI prototype and an internal AI ideas program (Jan 2026); Michelle Parker, who led the unit then, is now chief engineer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Boeing Global Services
Chris Raymond, President and CEO
Digital Services
Lindsey Douglas
Dataliner, Airplane Health Management and Maintenance Performance Toolbox
Boeing has published three reporting lines in its AI organization: Dana Deasy to CEO Kelly Ortberg (Jan 2025 release), Terry Rice to Deasy (2025 Form 10-K) and Vishwa Uddanwadiker to the chief technology officer (Mar 2026 Boeing biography). Boeing has not published Abhi Seth's line; placing him under Information Digital Technology & Security is inferred from Deasy's remit over AI and data and from a Dec 2025 Boeing story that groups the Boeing AI team with IDT&S. The line from CTO Lane Ballard to Chief Engineer Howard McKenzie is inferred from the Mar 2026 announcement of the Engineering & Technology Innovation organization, in which McKenzie spoke for the new group.
Where the AI workforce sits
Information Digital Technology & Security: the enterprise Boeing AI team, data and security
Boeing has not published how many technologists, data scientists or AI engineers work in IDT&S.
Not disclosedEngineering and the business units: autonomy, computer vision and product AI
Boeing cites more than 60,000 engineers (Apr 2026) but gives no count of those working on AI.
Not disclosedEngineering centers outside the U.S., such as the Boeing Korea Engineering & Technology Center
The Korea center's AI team built the part-validation tool and the speech-to-text prototype; no headcount is given.
Not disclosed
Named people
Use cases
Boeing reported more than 70 generative AI applications in Dec 2025, from Code Assistant and the AskBoeing virtual assistant to computer vision on factory drawings and an AI part-validation tool on the Renton and Everett production lines, alongside AI and autonomy in products such as the MQ-28 Ghost Bat and the Dataliner airline data platform. Boeing has published no business-level return for any of these use cases and gives no firm-level figure for AI's financial effect; its closest measures, more than 17 fewer inspection hours per airplane and office AI co-pilots that can save up to two hours a day, are not stated in cost or output terms.
| Use case | Area | Status | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boeing Conversational AI Boeing Conversational AI lets employees query company data through a secure interface and test generative AI on their own problems without coding. | Firmwide | In production | |
| AI co-pilots for office work Boeing gives office employees AI co-pilots to simplify tasks and says they can save employees up to two hours a day. | Firmwide | In production | |
| AskBoeing support assistant AskBoeing, a virtual assistant, can handle thousands of support requests a day so technical staff can take on higher-value work. | Firmwide | In production | |
| Code Assistant Code Assistant produces software for Boeing engineers in seconds, one of more than 70 generative AI applications built to raise employee productivity. | Software engineering | In production | |
| AI part validation for quality inspectors Inspectors photograph part tags and optical character recognition validates and logs serial numbers in the Aircraft Readiness Log, covering more than 1,400 parts on Renton and Everett lines since Jan 2024; Boeing reported inspection time improved by more than 17 hours per airplane and plans to add Boeing South Carolina. | Boeing Commercial Airplanes | In production | |
| Computer vision in factories and supplier inspection Boeing uses computer vision to make engineering drawings clearer for line mechanics and to cut turnaround times, and AI-driven visual inspection to find supply chain defects earlier. | Manufacturing and supply chain | In production | |
| Predictive maintenance for airline and military fleets Boeing lists AI-driven predictive maintenance, which catches potential aircraft issues early to cut downtime, among its AI results, and its retained Digital Services portfolio sells maintenance and fault diagnostics insights to airline and defense customers. | Boeing Global Services | In production | |
| Dataliner and TechOps AI Agent Dataliner gives airlines fleet-wide maintenance and operations intelligence built on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, and Boeing is developing Asset Lifecycle Planning and a TechOps AI Agent on it. | Boeing Global Services | Announced | |
| AI-enabled spare parts and depot planning Boeing Global Services extended a Pelico deployment in commercial spare parts operations and in Jul 2026 began evaluating Pelico's platform, with shortage anticipation and initial agentic workflows, for C-17 heavy maintenance. | Boeing Global Services | Pilot | |
| Palantir Foundry across defense factories Boeing Defense, Space & Security is integrating Palantir's Foundry to standardize data analytics across more than a dozen major production lines, and Palantir supplies AI for classified programs. | Boeing Defense, Space & Security | Announced | |
| MQ-28 Ghost Bat mission autonomy The MQ-28 collaborative combat aircraft completed the first autonomous air-to-air weapon engagement with an AIM-120 missile in Dec 2025, under the oversight of an E-7A operator, and flew autonomous operations tests from Point Mugu, California, according to a May 2026 Boeing report. | Boeing Defense, Space & Security | Pilot | |
| Military load planning A Boeing software subsidiary added AI and machine learning services, including a cargo assistant and a help chat agent, to the U.S. military's ICODES load-planning system; the government selected eight of nine for full development. | Boeing Defense, Space & Security | Pilot | |
| Onboard AI for spacecraft Space Mission Systems prototyped an AI application and a language model on space-grade hardware that detect unusual behavior, run self-checks, summarize issues and take limited, tested actions when ground links are slow, jammed or down. | Boeing Defense, Space & Security | Pilot | |
| Digital and auto taxi Boeing tested digital taxi instructions and an auto taxi system that steers a Cessna Caravan from gate to runway at a NASA facility, aimed at ground operations, which account for more than 10% of commercial airplane fatalities; Boeing describes the work as autonomy and does not call it AI. | Boeing Commercial Airplanes | Pilot | |
| Speech-to-text cabin captions Boeing demonstrated an AI concept that captions cabin announcements in near real time and works offline, developed with Deaf engineers for passengers who are Deaf or hard of hearing. | Boeing Commercial Airplanes | Pilot |
Adoption
Boeing spread generative AI top down: it deployed Boeing Conversational AI company-wide in 2023 and reached more than 170,000 employees by late 2023, but Abhi Seth put active users at 22,000 in a CDO Magazine interview dated Nov 2024. Boeing built skills through a Generative AI Academy, which had trained 8,000 employees and certified 2,600 super users by Dec 2025, and a Cloud Academy, and reported more than 70 generative AI applications in Dec 2025. Boeing has not published a newer active-user figure, a weekly-use rate or how many engineers use Code Assistant.
By the numbers
Rollout, first pilot to today
2023
Boeing unveiled Boeing Conversational AI, its first large-scale generative AI platform, and deployed it company-wide, reaching more than 170,000 employees by late 2023.
Jan 2024
Boeing Commercial Airplanes put an AI part-validation tool on its Renton and Everett production lines so inspectors can photograph and log part serial numbers.
Nov 2024
Abhi Seth told CDO Magazine that 22,000 Boeing employees were actively using the generative AI platform and that Boeing had set up a Generative AI Academy and moved to 12-week innovation sprints.
Jan 2025
Boeing named Dana Deasy chief information digital officer, effective Dec 31, 2024, overseeing IT, information security and data and analytics and reporting to CEO Kelly Ortberg.
Aug 2025
The U.S. government selected eight of nine experimental AI and machine learning services that a Boeing subsidiary built for military load planning for full development.
Sep 2025
Boeing Defense, Space & Security partnered with Palantir to bring Foundry to its factories and AI to classified programs.
Dec 2025
Boeing reported more than 70 generative AI applications, 8,000 employees trained by its GenAI Academy and 2,600 certified super users, under a centralized AI framework led by Abhi Seth and Vishwa Uddanwadiker.
Mar 2026
Boeing's executive biography of Vishwa Uddanwadiker titled him chief AI and autonomy officer for Engineering, Test & Technology, reporting to the chief technology officer, a post Lane Ballard took on in Mar 2026.
Oct 2026
Boeing Global Services introduced Dataliner, an AI-powered airline data platform built with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.
Economics & controls
Spend and ROI
Technology spending
Boeing does not disclose a technology or IT budget. Boeing's research and development expense was $3.6 billion in 2025, down from $3.8 billion in 2024, and covers product development such as new airplanes, not AI alone (2025 Form 10-K).
What AI itself costs
Boeing has not disclosed what it spends on AI, on Boeing Conversational AI or on its Palantir and Microsoft contracts. The largest AI-related transaction on record is a divestiture: Boeing is selling Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to Archer Aviation for 19.75% of Archer's Class A shares and two warrants for up to $200 million more, and held $688 million of their assets and $161 million of liabilities for sale at Sep 30, 2026. Kelly Ortberg said on Sep 16, 2026 that the sale spares Boeing a large capital investment to take Wisk's aircraft to market.
Reported ROI
Boeing has published no business-level return credited to AI, at the firm level or for any use case. Boeing's Dec 2025 account of its AI program describes predictive maintenance that cuts downtime, machine learning and computer vision that reduce defects, and office AI co-pilots that can save employees up to two hours a day, without cost, revenue or headcount figures. Kelly Ortberg and CFO Jay Malave did not mention AI on the Jan 27, 2026 or Oct 27, 2026 earnings calls or at the Sep 16, 2026 Morgan Stanley conference, and Ortberg's Jul 2026 Bloomberg Television remarks on AI carried no figures.
Productivity markers
Boeing said in Dec 2025 that its AI part-validation tool improved inspection time by more than 17 hours per airplane, after more than 70% of 737 part serial numbers had been entered by hand, and that the team delivered a prototype ready for on-site testing in eight months. Boeing also says AskBoeing can handle thousands of support requests a day and that Code Assistant breaks days of software work down to moments.
Headcount
Boeing's workforce was about 182,000 at Dec 31, 2025, with 14% outside the U.S. and about 72,000 union members (2025 Form 10-K). Boeing has not linked headcount to AI in its 2025 Form 10-K or its Jan and Oct 2026 earnings calls, and its Dec 2025 AI article states that technology should enhance human capability, not replace it.
Governance and risk
AI principles and framework
Boeing says every AI initiative runs under a governance and ethics framework built on five principles: safety, reliability, explainability, privacy and human oversight. Boeing's models are trained to hold back when data is lacking instead of guessing, and its AI systems trace each response to a trusted source (Dec 2025).
Data boundary
Boeing applies an architecture designed so no proprietary or regulated information leaves its secure network (Dec 2025). Abhi Seth said in Nov 2024 that Boeing's AI governance covers data visibility and usage rules, data labeling, access control and user roles, partly because some defense data is restricted to U.S. personnel. Dataliner lets airlines keep their data in their own environments and control what they share (Oct 2026).
Board oversight
Boeing's board oversees cybersecurity risk, including risks from artificial intelligence, and held focused briefings on AI in 2025, according to the Mar 2026 proxy statement; directors also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Conference. The Audit Committee reviews cybersecurity, with Dana Deasy and Chief Security Officer Terry Rice presenting at each of its bimonthly meetings (2025 Form 10-K).
Disclosed risks
Boeing's 2025 Form 10-K mentions artificial intelligence once, as one of the emerging technologies that make cyberattack techniques evolve rapidly. Terry Rice chairs Boeing's Global Security Governance Council, which sets enterprise cybersecurity policy and strategy.
Autonomy and certification
Vishwa Uddanwadiker said in Dec 2025 that Boeing works with regulators, including EASA, on certification pathways and with U.S. government partners on assured autonomy, so that highly automated systems scale under human oversight; his Mar 2026 Boeing biography lists regulator engagement among his duties. Boeing's spacecraft AI prototype may take only limited, tested actions under defined safety rules (Jan 2026), and Boeing plans to study agentic AI that performs tasks autonomously under human supervision (Dec 2025).
Recent signals
Oct 20, 2026
Boeing Global Services introduced Dataliner, an AI-powered data intelligence platform for airlines built with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, as the foundation for products including a TechOps AI Agent.
Aug 10, 2026
Boeing announced the sale of Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to Archer Aviation, framed by Archer as a physical AI deal, for a stake in Archer, keeping access to Wisk's core autonomous flight technology for its commercial and defense aircraft.
Jul 23, 2026
Boeing Global Services signed a memorandum of understanding with Pelico to evaluate AI-enabled planning and initial agentic workflows for C-17 heavy maintenance.
Jul 20, 2026
Kelly Ortberg told Bloomberg Television at the Farnborough Airshow that AI is critically important to Boeing, used in back-office processes and software and hardware design, and to be built into its services and products.
Apr 30, 2026
CTO Lane Ballard named artificial intelligence and autonomy among Boeing's technology priorities, citing computer vision, reinforcement learning, embedded machine learning and generative AI.
Mar 6, 2026
Boeing's proxy statement said the board held focused briefings on artificial intelligence in 2025 and oversees cybersecurity risk, including risks from AI.
Mar 2026
Boeing's executive biography of Vishwa Uddanwadiker titled him chief AI and autonomy officer for Engineering, Test & Technology, reporting to the chief technology officer, after Boeing named Lane Ballard CTO on Mar 12, 2026.
Jan 30, 2026
Boeing's 2025 Form 10-K put its workforce at about 182,000 and named AI among the technologies that make cyberattacks evolve rapidly.
Jan 21, 2026
Boeing Space Mission Systems said it had prototyped an onboard AI application and a language model running on space-grade hardware, from an internal program that funds employees' AI ideas.
Jan 20, 2026
Boeing said CTO Todd Citron would speak on an artificial intelligence in aviation panel at the Singapore Airshow; Boeing named Lane Ballard its next CTO in Mar 2026.
Dec 18, 2025
Boeing reported more than 70 generative AI applications and 8,000 employees trained by its GenAI Academy, with Abhi Seth and Vishwa Uddanwadiker leading a centralized AI framework.
Dec 17, 2025
Boeing said its AI part-validation tool covers more than 1,400 parts and improved inspection time by more than 17 hours per airplane, with Boeing South Carolina next.
Quick answers
- How does Boeing deploy AI?
- Boeing deploys AI through Boeing Conversational AI, a generative AI platform rolled out company-wide in 2023 that reached more than 170,000 employees, and more than 70 generative AI applications such as Code Assistant and AskBoeing (Dec 2025). Chief Information Digital Officer Dana Deasy owns enterprise IT, data and AI, a chief AI and autonomy officer under the CTO leads product AI, and the businesses add Palantir Foundry in defense factories and Dataliner, built on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. Boeing has published no AI spending or AI-credited financial return.
- What does Boeing use AI for?
- Boeing reported more than 70 generative AI applications in Dec 2025, from Code Assistant and the AskBoeing virtual assistant to computer vision on factory drawings and an AI part-validation tool on the Renton and Everett production lines, alongside AI and autonomy in products such as the MQ-28 Ghost Bat and the Dataliner airline data platform. Boeing has published no business-level return for any of these use cases and gives no firm-level figure for AI's financial effect; its closest measures, more than 17 fewer inspection hours per airplane and office AI co-pilots that can save up to two hours a day, are not stated in cost or output terms.
- Who leads AI at Boeing?
- AI at Boeing is led by Dana Deasy (Chief Information Digital Officer and SVP, Information Digital Technology & Security); Abhi Seth (Chief AI and Data Officer); Vishwa Uddanwadiker (VP and Chief Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy Officer, Engineering, Test & Technology). Ownership of AI on the org chart: CIDO Dana Deasy, reporting to the CEO; chief AI and autonomy officer under the CTO.
- What AI platform does Boeing use?
- Boeing Conversational AI, unveiled in 2023 as Boeing's first large-scale generative AI platform, lets employees query company data inside Boeing's network; Boeing ran more than 70 generative AI applications by Dec 2025.
- Which AI models does Boeing use?
- Boeing has not named the models behind Boeing Conversational AI; Dataliner runs on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, defense factories use Palantir Foundry, a Boeing team trained large language models on Boeing data, and research teams adapt open models (Jan 2026).
- How many Boeing employees use AI?
- Boeing Conversational AI reached more than 170,000 Boeing employees by late 2023, with 22,000 active users in Nov 2024, the latest figure; the GenAI Academy had trained 8,000 employees by Dec 2025.
- How far has AI spread at Boeing?
- Boeing has reported no business return it credits to AI, for any use case or at the firm level: its 2025 Form 10-K and its Jan and Oct 2026 earnings calls give no AI figure, and its closest measures, more than 17 fewer inspection hours per airplane and office co-pilots that can save up to two hours a day (Dec 2025), are task speedups not stated in cost or output. Boeing has reported a company-wide rollout: Abhi Seth, chief AI and data officer, put active users of the generative AI platform deployed company-wide in 2023 at 22,000 of more than 170,000 reached (CDO Magazine, Nov 2024), and CIDO Dana Deasy, who reports to the CEO, owns IT, data and AI. Boeing is therefore at Piloting; AI-credited returns in two or more functions, or a firm-level AI figure, would move it to Scaling.
Open questions
- Which large language models and which cloud providers run Boeing Conversational AI and its more than 70 generative AI applications?
- How many Boeing employees use generative AI today, given that the last active-user figure, 22,000, dates from Nov 2024?
- What does Boeing spend on AI, and what business return has it measured for any use case, given that it has published none?
- What cost or production capacity does the part-validation tool's 17-hour inspection saving per airplane translate to, and has the tool reached Boeing South Carolina?
- Whom does Abhi Seth report to, and how do his enterprise AI and data organization and Vishwa Uddanwadiker's AI and autonomy group under the CTO divide AI work?
- How far has Palantir Foundry spread across Boeing Defense, Space & Security's production lines since Sep 2025, and what has it changed?
- Which airlines use Dataliner, and when will the TechOps AI Agent ship?
- How will Boeing use its retained access to Wisk's autonomy technology once the Archer Aviation deal closes?
- Did the military load-planning AI services reach production deployment in Jun 2026 as targeted?
- Has Boeing deployed agentic AI internally, which it named as a future initiative in Dec 2025?
Sources
Boeing
- Boeing Innovation Quarterly: Shaping AI for the Sky (Dec 18, 2025)
- Engineers use photo-driven AI to simplify part validation (Dec 17, 2025)
- Boeing team prototypes onboard AI for space (Jan 21, 2026)
- AI-powered speech-to-text concept (Sep 8, 2025)
- Boeing aids military transportation with AI (Aug 26, 2025)
- Boeing teams test auto airplane taxiing (Jun 10, 2025)
- Boeing names Lane Ballard chief technology officer (Mar 12, 2026)
- Chief tech officer sets Boeing's technology and innovation strategy (Apr 30, 2026)
- Boeing and Pelico drive C-17 maintenance modernization (Jul 23, 2026)
- MQ-28 logs first international flights in allied airspace (May 27, 2026)
- Executive biographies
- Dana Deasy, Chief Information Digital Officer, biography
- Executive biography of Vishwa Uddanwadiker (Mar 2026, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University)
Boeing news releases
- Boeing appoints Deasy as Chief Information Officer (Jan 3, 2025)
- Boeing Defense, Space & Security partners with Palantir (Sep 23, 2025)
- Boeing introduces Dataliner (Oct 20, 2026)
- Archer to acquire Boeing's Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid (Aug 10, 2026)
- Boeing and RAAF achieve CCA missile fire from MQ-28 (Dec 9, 2025)
- Boeing to sell portions of Digital Aviation Solutions to Thoma Bravo (Apr 22, 2025)
- Statement on closing the Digital Aviation Solutions sale (Nov 3, 2025)
- Boeing to highlight growth and autonomy at Singapore Airshow (Jan 20, 2026)
- Boeing launches Virtual Airplane training tools (Nov 6, 2025)
Filings and investor materials
- Boeing 2025 Form 10-K (filed Jan 30, 2026)
- Boeing Q3 2026 Form 10-Q (filed Oct 27, 2026)
- Boeing 2026 proxy statement (filed Mar 6, 2026)
- Q3 2026 earnings call transcript, The Motley Fool (Oct 27, 2026)
- Q4 2025 earnings call transcript, The Motley Fool (Jan 27, 2026)
- Morgan Stanley Laguna Industrials Conference transcript (Sep 16, 2026)
News
- CDO Magazine: interview with Abhi Seth, Boeing Chief Enterprise AI and Data Officer (Nov 2024)
- Bloomberg Television: Boeing CEO on deliveries, demand, next-gen aircraft (Jul 20, 2026)
- Data Centre Review: Boeing forms multi-cloud partnership with AWS, Google and Microsoft (Apr 7, 2022)
- Lehigh University: Michelle Parker, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Data confidence
- Confirmed
- Stated in a primary or reputable public source.
- Estimated
- Derived or approximated from public reporting.
- Unconfirmed
- Reported, but not yet corroborated.
Boeing profile · Enterprise AI diffusion report by Imagine · facts checked against their sources on Nov 1, 2026
