{"id":19609,"date":"2015-09-23T00:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeings-new-ceo-sees-amazon-and-facebook-as-competitors-and-potential-partners\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:47:04","slug":"boeings-new-ceo-sees-amazon-and-facebook-as-competitors-and-potential-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeings-new-ceo-sees-amazon-and-facebook-as-competitors-and-potential-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s new CEO sees Amazon and Facebook as competitors (and potential partners)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg addresses the SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress in Seattle on Tuesday. (Credit: Alan Boyle for GeekWire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two months into his job as the Boeing Co.\u2019s president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg says Amazon and Facebook are emerging as competitors in the aerospace industry, due to their plans to develop drones for package deliveries and Internet services.<\/p>\n

But they could also emerge as business partners, Muilenburg said Tuesday during his keynote address at this week\u2019s SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition in Seattle.<\/p>\n

He said Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple can bring opportunities for collaboration as well as competitive challenges. That adds them to the ranks of traditional players in the aerospace industry like Lockheed Martin, and emerging players like China\u2019s Comac aerospace venture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line of all of that is, I think it\u2019s good for us,\u201d Muilenburg told a standing-room crowd at the Washington State Convention Center. \u201cThis competition, these new partnerships make us better as a company. But it does mean we have to be adept at developing these new global collaboration models.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of Muilenburg\u2019s presentation slides shows Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook alongside Airbus, Bombardier and Lockheed Martin as part of a web of competitors and partners in the aerospace industry. (Credit: Alan Boyle for GeekWire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He pointed to Blue Origin as an example: That space venture, which was founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and has its headquarters in Kent, Wash., is working on an orbital launch system that could be competitive with Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner spaceship. At the same time, it\u2019s working on a next-generation BE-4 rocket engine for use on the Vulcan rocket being developed by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one example of bringing different sectors together,\u201d Muilenburg said. \u201cYou could bring together combinations that otherwise you couldn\u2019t choose \u2014 in this case, mission reliability and low cost, being able to do both. That\u2019s a new kind of partnership that\u2019s exciting for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

So could Boeing someday be selling drones to Amazon?<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe,\u201d Muilenberg told GeekWire with a smile. \u201cUnmanned airplanes \u2014 and more broadly, autonomy in space, in the air, undersea \u2014 is a big future area for Boeing, and an area where we are continuing to build out collaborations. So we are always looking for partners in that arena.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nScience journalist Alan Boyle<\/strong> is the author of “The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made A Big Difference.”<\/p>\n

Muilenburg, who is due to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at Boeing\u2019s Everett plant on Wednesday, also hinted at good news to come about Boeing\u2019s dealings with China. When he was asked whether new orders would be announced in connection with Xi\u2019s visit, he replied, \u201cStand by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a number of our customers and President Xi himself and his team here this week, and we want to respect the dialogue we have with them,\u201d Muilenburg said. \u201cYou\u2019ll be seeing more news as we conduct the visit this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

This month, The Seattle Times reported that Boeing was close to reaching a deal to open a 737 jet completion and delivery center in China, and that the deal might be announced during Xi\u2019s visit. On Tuesday, Muilenburg declined to comment further about that report \u2014 except to argue that any such deal would benefit Boeing\u2019s U.S. workforce as well as the company\u2019s Chinese partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we ramp up capabilities in China, including additional 737-related work, the actions that we\u2019ll take are actions that ultimately allow us to grow jobs in the U.S.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg addresses the SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress in Seattle on Tuesday. (Credit: Alan Boyle for GeekWire) Two months into his job as the Boeing Co.\u2019s president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg says Amazon and Facebook are emerging as competitors in the aerospace industry, due to their plans to develop drones for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,275,509,670,4867,3611,5621],"class_list":["post-19609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerospace","tag-amazon","tag-blue-origin","tag-boeing","tag-drones","tag-facebook","tag-sae-aerotech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}