About David Neely

BSME 2004, UMR
MBA 2008, Washington University-St. Louis

Dave Neely is the Program Chief Engineer of the T7A Red Hawk Trainer. He leads the engineering team working on the Flight Test, EMD and LRIP portions of the T7A Advanced Pilot Training along with development and implementation of the Ground Based Training Devices.

Prior to this role he was the Senior Director of Manufacturing and Safety in Phantom Works. In that role, he led the development of the future production system along with the material readiness and production hardening activity. He was responsible for program stand up and prototyping in St. Louis, Mesa, and Philadelphia. In other roles he was the Enterprise Technology Integration Director. He leads program and project reviews on center R&D technologies as well as managing Enterprise Technology Programs. The Director of Autonomous Behaviors for Boeing Research and Technology, where he was part of the transformation of Boeing R&D and led one of the Enterprise Technology Programs, which focuses on the development and delivery of products and capabilities to programs.

Prior to that, Dave was the Director of Engineering for Boeing NeXt, an organization that was laying the foundation for a next-generation mobility ecosystem in which autonomous and piloted vehicles can safely coexist. Dave was responsible for managing cross-enterprise engineering teams and bringing engineering support to NeXt’s Future Mobility programs.

He has held various leadership roles across the company. Dave was the Chief Engineer for the Boeing NeXt Cargo Air Vehicle Program. In this role, he focused on technical design, build and test spirals to increase the pace of learning while working to shape the future market. He served as Senior Manager for the Integration of Advanced Operations and Quality in Boeing’s Phantom Works. He has held various leadership roles across the company and his work has supported the F-15 Eagle, C-17, and 777X programs, among others.

Neely holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and a master’s of business administration from Washington University. He joined Boeing in 2005.