Awards & Recognition
Boeing efforts in supplier diversity have been recognized both nationally and regionally. Recent awards and recognition include:
- Boeing becoming one of the newest members of the prestigious Billion Dollar Roundtable in 2007, an organization that brings together major corporations that make meaningful and measurable contributions to the economic growth of woman-owned and minority-owned companies.
- Boeing being ranked as "Top Supporter" for engineering at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The rankings were based on data collected in a recent survey conducted by Career Communications Group.
- 2006 "Top Corporation" award given by Astra Women's Business Alliance, which provides resources for women in business in five Northwestern states.
- Department of Defense Nunn-Perry awards in 2006, 2005 and 2004 for outstanding mentor-Protégé teams formed as part of the DOD Mentor-Protégé program. We were honored in 2006, with Kemco Manufacturing of St. Louis, Mo and Precision Machine and Manufacturing of Grove, Ok. In 2005, we won with DACA Machine and Tool, Inc. of Dutzow, Mo., a woman-owned supplier of sheet metal and machined parts. In 2004, we won with Precision Machine and Manufacturing. Precision Machine Manufacturing is a Native-American-Owned Small Business that manufactures machined parts.
- 2005 Champion of Veterans Enterprise, given by the Center for Veterans Enterprise in the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, for successfully subcontracting a high percentage of IDS NASA Systems work to small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
- The First American Enterprise Award from the National Center for American Indian Economic Development in 2005. The award is presented annually to corporations whose leadership has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to economic progress for Native Americans.
- Corporate nominator and sponsor of the U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business of the Year Award Winner for 2003, Clement Construction of Kent, Wa.
- NASA's 2002 Goldin-Stokes Award, the agency's highest honor for contractors participating in the NASA Mentor-Protégé program, with Cimarron, a Houston-based, woman-owned small information technology business. The program teams large aerospace prime contractors with emerging high-technology small businesses.
- The U.S. Department of Transportation's "Prime Contractor of the Year" in 2002 for success in providing small and minority-owned business with opportunities to win subcontracts on the company's airport explosive detection systems program with the Transportation Security Administration.
- The U.S. Small Business Administration's prestigious Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence in Manufacturing in 2001, which honors large federal contractors that have excelled in their use of small businesses as suppliers and subcontractors.
- The Frances Perkins Vanguard Award in 2000 for excellence in use of woman-owned small businesses as subcontractors.
Boeing was also the first aerospace company to be named Corporation of the Year by the National Minority Supplier Development Council, in 1994. Boeing has been a member of the NMSDC's board of directors for more than 30 years, helped found two of its regional councils and participates in many others.