The aerospace and defense company filed documents for the phone with the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday. These documents were first sighted by tech site Myce, and Boeing confirmed with GeekWire that it has indeed released the device, which runs on Google's Android.
While many of the details about the smartphone are confidential, a letter included in the filing gives a bit of explanation.
"Boeing's Black phone will be sold primarily to government agencies and companies engaged in contractual activities with those agencies that are related to defense and homeland security," the letter says.
Boeing writes that the device won't be available to the consumer market and technical information on "Black" is to remain confidential or protected by non-disclosure agreements. This is most likely due to the device's high security.
"The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper proof covering to identify attempted disassembly," the letter says. "Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable."
The filing doesn't include many images or specs on the smartphone, but it does show that the device will have dual SIM cards and support GSM, WCDMA, and LTE.
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