The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and

sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites worldwide. The company also provides leasing

and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers; it is the
second-largest defense contractor in the world and is the largest exporter in the United States
by dollar value.
More than 75 years ago, Tata Airlines operated a DC-3 aircraft in India. Since then, with the
707, 747, 757 Freighter, 777, 737 and the game-changing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing has been the
mainstay of India’s commercial aviation sector with airlines such as Air India, Jet Airways and
SpiceJet.
Headquartered in Delhi, Boeing’s India operations include an office and a Boeing Research &
Technology Center in Bangalore, field service offices in Mumbai, Hindan, Rajali and New Delhi.
Boeing subsidiary, Jeppesen—a provider of flight navigation solutions—is well established in
Hyderabad. Another subsidiary, Continental Data Graphics (CDG) in Chennai, is also expanding
its footprint in the country.
Boeing in India has around 500 employees and more than 3,500 people work on dedicated
Boeing supply–chain jobs with its 30 suppliers across manufacturing, engineering and IT
sectors. The company continues to increase its footprint as tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers and
sourcing activities continue to grow rapidly.
Industry Partnerships
As a long-term strategic partner to India, Boeing is accelerating the development of an
indigenous aerospace and defense ecosystem by contributing to the “Make in India” initiative.
Boeing’s industrial partnership program is focused on capitalizing on India’s competencies to
build a supply-chain capability that will be globally competitive. This will support aerospace and
defense programs across the Boeing enterprise.
Recently Boeing formed a joint venture with Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) to
collaborate in aerospace and defense manufacturing and potential integrated systems
development opportunities, including unmanned aerial vehicles.
Research & Technology and University Partnerships
Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation and since 1995 has a
research and development (R&D) presence in India, when collaborative research in
aerodynamics was established with the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) in Bangalore.
This has developed into a series of projects in aerodynamics and advanced analysis methods at
NAL, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.

In 2005, Boeing entered into a strategic research partnership with IISc Bangalore. The Boeing–
IISc partnership focuses on research in materials and sciences for structural alloys, smart
materials and structures, process modeling and simulation