The top 10 neighbors for Boeing Defense spread across seven distinct subcategories — no single kind dominates, and the defense-contractor cluster is only part of the picture.
The shape is broad: scores run from 0.89 down to 0.72 with no sharp drop-off, and the neighbor set pulls in multiple directions at once. The three closest neighbors are fellow B2B brands in the same industrial sector: Northrop Grumman at 0.89, Lockheed Martin at 0.84, and Raytheon Technologies at 0.84. The Boeing Company itself follows at 0.83, confirming that the parent brand and the defense division draw audiences with meaningfully similar but not identical shapes. That core cluster of B2B defense and aerospace brands accounts for four of the ten positions.
The remaining six positions are where the breadth becomes visible. Aviation Week (0.78, Magazines) and Airbus (0.74, Travel) extend the aerospace thread. Rocket Lab (0.74, Technology) pulls toward the commercial space sector. Then the set opens further: CIA (0.72, Government) and CNN National Security (0.72, News Publishers) introduce a national-security and policy-media strand, while Hilton Honors (0.72, Hotels) is the most structurally unexpected entry — a loyalty program whose audience composition nonetheless mirrors Boeing Defense's closely enough to land in the top 10.
The broad shape, combined with that hotel-brand outlier, suggests an audience defined less by a single professional identity than by a cluster of overlapping traits — aerospace interest, national-security awareness, and the travel patterns of a frequent-flying professional class.