Aerospace & Defense

Booz & Company offers aerospace clients an integrated, authoritative perspective combined with deep functional capabilities in the only dedicated industry consulting team among the leading management consultancies. We help clients chart new territory in the commercial aviation, military aerospace, shipbuilding, and space sectors. We have decades of experience helping the industry achieve clarity so clients can reach their goals in turbulent times.

With each engagement, Booz & Company delivers:

Authoritative expertise. Booz & Company aerospace strategists give clients access to the latest thinking in multiple industries and domains. We provide the integrated perspective of professionals who have worked in leading technology firms, commercial enterprises, and government organizations. Many of these professionals have helped set strategic direction for programs that provide today’s great opportunities—helping industry and government communicate while safeguarding confidentiality.

Deep functional skills. Our consultants are highly trained in the most advanced business disciplines, including operations, engineering, information technology, and organizational design.

Flexibility and scalability. Clients appreciate our ability to meet their needs with a customized approach. They bring us their challenges; we show them their options—from a simple market analysis to a full business transformation. We can help a company with every phase, providing insight and continuity from feasibility analysis through action, implementation, and evaluation.

Decades of success. Our reputation for objectivity, effectiveness, and high ethical standards gives customers confidence. Moreover, with approval of the appropriate government agencies, our team has provided consulting services to clients at levels of security classifications up through TS/SCI. Whether assessing opportunities, analyzing business processes, or focusing marketing strategies, we provide capabilities to position clients strongly for the future. We design tailored solutions to help clients with strategic growth, business execution, and corporate transformation.

Service areas:

Strategy and growth

• Access strategies for new and emerging markets 
• Acquisition screening and due diligence 
• Business and corporate strategy 
• Technology and product-line strategy and planning

Program and business execution

• Marketing effectiveness 
• Organizational effectiveness and alignment 
• Post-merger integration 
• Program risk management and best practices 
• Supply-chain and manufacturing effectiveness

Cross-functional business transformation

• Achieving excellence in innovation 
• Building successful aftermarket and sustainment businesses 
• Building an efficient global enterprise 
• Enterprise resilience: understanding and addressing business risks 
• Making the adjustment to low-rate production 
• Repositioning businesses along the product and service value chain 
• Smart customization: balancing value of variety with cost of complexity