Amy L. Buhrig is director of technology for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. She is responsible for leading the definition of technology required to enable future products and services, while ensuring the company’s investments are aligned with business unit strategy and industry economics. Integral to these responsibilities is working with organizations to develop the skills, processes, and tools necessary to enable the application of future technologies. Ms. Buhrig is also the primary interface between Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Phantom Works, the company’s research and development organization, to maximize the value derived from the company’s R&D activities. Buhrig has also worked at the Phantom Works, most recently leading a team to define the strategy for the Structural Technologies, Prototyping, and Quality organization. Other Phantom Works assignments included understanding enterprise wide technology needs in order to leverage venture capital investments, and pursuing research and development contracts for the Mathematics and Computing Technology organization. The first 20 years of Buhrig’s career were spent in Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. She performed studies to quantify the benefit of investing in novel design methods for the Boeing 777 and F-22 aircraft and assessed company strengths applicable to the commercial space market, and she was vice president of marketing and sales for Boeing’s Sea Launch Company.