NEW YORK — Ted Colbert, the CEO of Boeing Defense, Space, and Security, finds himself navigating two cultural changes. The first is reshaping his division of the 100-year-old planemaker into a more agile builder of networked and AI-assisted weapons. The second is much more personal. Colbert is one of only a few people of color on Boeing's executive council, much as he was at the head table in a late-September luncheon in the 20th-floor ballroom of the Yale Club in midtown Manhattan. He is one of vanishingly few Black executives to rise to positions of prominence in the defense industry. "You carry responsibility, at least from my perspective, to help people make their way to whatever dream they have," said the Boeing exec, the featured guest of a Wings Club event. Every day, Colbert said, he works to help his peers "become better allies" for people of color, women, and other underrepresented groups of employees.