For more than 100 years, Boeing has continually found newer and better ways to provide the best products and services to our customers and meet their needs where they are today — and where they will need to be tomorrow.

Phantom Works, Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s advanced research, development and prototyping division, has answered the call by dedicatedly investing in facilities, people, technology and techniques – allowing us to offer the most advanced weapons systems in the industry.

Propelled by a team with an innovative spirit that transcends cultures, Phantom Works pushes beyond perceived limits and embraces taking risks to deliver strategically disruptive, innovative, sustainable and production-ready capabilities to the Warfighter.

We believe the phrase “it can’t be done” is a myth, and our team eagerly takes on the toughest challenges, bringing cutting-edge technologies to life – from seabed to outer space.

Imagine a future in which our platforms are digitally designed and compatible with the next generation of production innovation – all produced on a common production line. A future where our platforms can autonomously bring more firepower to the fight at significantly lower cost. Where our customers have a common experience across all Boeing products.

Building on best practices from some of the industry’s most advanced manufacturing programs such as the 777X, MQ-28A Ghost Bat, MQ-25 Stingray, T-7A Red Hawk, and numerous classified and proprietary programs, Boeing Phantom Works is enabling just that with its “Production System of the Future.”

Several new factories will integrate the latest advancements in model-based engineering, automation, augmented and virtual reality, full-sized determinant assembly, modularity and more to improve first-time quality, reduce costs and enable flexibility.

Connected with modular tooling, a reconfigurable layout and full digital thread integration, the Production System of the Future for advanced combat aircraft programs includes:

• A purpose-built Advanced Composite Fabrication Center in Mesa;
• Laboratory and Test facilities in St. Louis;
• An Advanced Assembly Facility in St. Louis;
• A new, advanced post-assembly Center in St. Louis.

Thirty years ago, Herman Barkey, the “father” of the F-4, started a special projects team called “Phantom Works” that anticipated future needs and created advanced technologies.

Since then, the innovative spirit of Phantom Works transcended cultures by taking risks and anticipating future needs that have blazed the trail for the next generation of advanced technology, leading to revolutionary products like the Bird of Prey, X-45A, X-37, X-51A Waverider, Phantom Ray, Phantom Eye and more recently the T-7A Red Hawk, XLUUV, Wave Glider, MQ-25 Stingray and advanced space satellites & systems.

Boeing Phantom Works continues to create the unimaginable and make investments so the right technology will be ready when the customer needs it, whether it be tomorrow or decades into the future.