Raytheon Technologies Corporation announced that its board of directors has elected Leanne G. Caret as a director. Caret is an experienced aerospace and defense industry leader, most recently serving as executive vice president and senior advisor for The Boeing Company. Prior to her current role, Caret served as executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, which provides solutions for defense, government, space, intelligence and security customers.

Caret previously held roles as president of Boeing's Global Services & Support organization; Defense, Space & Security chief financial officer; vice president and general manager of Vertical Lift; vice president of H-47 Programs; and general manager of Global Transport & Executive Systems. Caret has a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Kansas State University and a Master of Business Administration from Wichita State University. Fortune magazine named Caret to its Most Powerful Women list in 2021 for the fifth consecutive year. In addition to being a 2019 inductee of the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame, Caret is a Royal Aeronautical Society fellow and an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics associate fellow.

She is also on the George W. Bush Institute's Women'sInitiative Policy Advisory Council; the board of trustees for the Kansas State University Foundation; the board of directors for Deere & Company; USO board of governors; and the board of directors for FIRST, a leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.