Boeing Launches Research, Tech Center in Missouri; Nancy Pendleton Comments

Boeing has opened a research and technology center in St. Louis to accommodate the firm’s technology development programs with academic institutions and research partners.

The 180,000 square-foot Boeing Research & Technology-Missouri research center contains a non-destructive test laboratory, the Human Systems Integration Center, a polymer synthesis lab and an autonomous systems lab, Boeing said Tuesday.

“The new BR&T-Missouri research center allows access to and development of cutting-edge technologies across a broad spectrum of research areas, which will help launch the next hundred years of innovation,” said Nancy Pendleton, leader of the BR&T-Missouri research center.

“Our research agreements with Missouri University of Science and Technology and St. Louis University are just one more way we are advancing technologies,” Pendleton added.

BR&T-Missouri engineers and technicians will collaborate on digital aviation and support technology, rate-independent production and new materials at the center.