Kelly Ortberg, the CEO of Boeing, said he is working with the DOGE team to speed up delivery.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg on Thursday said Elon Musk, the head of its space business rival SpaceX, is "helping us a lot" in navigating through delays in delivering Boeing's Air Force One presidential jet.

The comments were the White House's latest attempt to ratchet up pressure on Boeing, which is at least three years behind in delivering two new jets.

Donald Trump said Wednesday his administration was "looking at alternatives" to Boeing following delays in delivering two new models of the US presidential Air Force One plane.

Billionaire Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority,

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said at an analyst conference that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is helping Boeing address issues that have delayed delivery of the new Air Force One jets.

"No, I'm not happy with Boeing. It takes them a long time to do, you know, Air Force One, we gave that contract out a long time ago. It's a fixed-price contract. And I'm not happy with the fact that it's taking so long.

The Air Force One program may be further delayed until 2029 or years later, a senior administration official said, citing supply chain issues and changing requirements, after the White House highlighted delays in the project over the weekend.

Billionaire Elon Musk is now lending a hand to Boeing, assisting the company with developing the long-delayed 747-8-based VC-25B Air Force One replacement that president Donald Trump badly desires.

There has been some interesting and mixed news flow around Boeing (NYSE: BA) recently. A Reuters article cited a White House official who stated that deliveries of the two Boeing VC-25B planes that will serve as the next "Air Force One" could be delayed until 2029,

"He’s able to pretty quickly ascertain the difference between technical requirements and things that we can move out of the way," Kelly Ortberg said.

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