GE Aerospace CEO and Chairman Larry Culp joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to discuss the company’s investment in US manufacturing to accelerate engine deliveries and strengthen defense production.
GE Aerospace is pouring $1 billion into its US manufacturing plant as the company scrambles to meet what CEO Larry Culp calls “tremendous demand,” with a nearly $200 billion backlog and accelerated engine orders for all commercial and defense aircraft.
“People fly, airlines fly [are] we’re looking to expand and modernize, as are the US military and our allies around the world and, given the base of installation that we have, on the commercial and military side of things, we couldn’t be busier,” said Culp in a FOX Business exclusive, adding, “but happily.”
Culp joined “Mornings with Maria” Monday to discuss the company’s sweeping investment, which will cover 30 communities in 17 states and include $275 million dedicated to consolidating defense manufacturing.
About one-third of GE Aerospace’s business is tied to defense, and the company powers two-thirds of US military aircraft, including fighter jets, helicopters and training platforms, Culp shared.
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The GE9X engine, produced by GE Aerospace, on the Boeing 777X aircraft at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Christopher Pike/Bloomberg News)
He said that a large part of the investment is aimed at strengthening the defense measures of GE, calling the support of the US military and the allied organizations as the “unfailing mission” of the company.
“We have a role to play, and part of this multi-year investment effort that we’ve made, will be the $600 million that we’ve invested in our defense over the last three years, aimed at not only increasing productivity, but accelerating the pace of what we’re doing for the American fighter,” he said.
“That’s our unfailing mission at GE Aerospace, and we’re proud to be on board.”
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Larry Culp, CEO of General Electric Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the IATA Annual General Meeting & World Air Transport Summit in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
As part of the expansion, Culp said GE Aerospace plans to hire another 5,000 workers in 2026, with the same number added in 2025, to build the technology and capabilities needed to increase production not just next year, but every year into the 2030s.
On the commercial side, Culp emphasized GE Aerospace’s extensive global history, noting that the company is ramping up production to support an already dominant base that powers most of the world’s aircraft.
“We power the better part of three-quarters of all commercial traffic around the world every day,” he said.
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“We have a million people in the air right now powered by GE Technology. It’s an incredible responsibility that we all take very seriously… We’ll have to continue to invest to support our retail customers. But we’re also doing the same thing to support US warfighters and our partners around the world.”
