Dan Beck Quotations

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

What we're seeing is outside contractors are coming into town with illegal immigrants, and they're cutting costs. That's forcing the local contractors to go the illegal route.

United Launch Alliance is going through all the appropriate FTC assessments with regard to anti-trust issues and we are confident that at the end of that process it will be approved.

ULA is separate from this. We have not heard any indication from Lockheed-Martin that the strike is a problem.

I can't predict what the job cuts would be.

He was unbelievable. He came in and just shut them down.

Our teams are assessing that and figuring out what the go-forward plans are for this.

It fits into our business plans, but at the same time, we feel it's a very generous offer.

We're continuing to work with the government to move this forward and we're hopeful that there will be announcement in the near term.

We're willing to make adjustments, but those adjustments would have to be within the value package of our offer.

We'll need to see what will be involved in getting hardware back in flow and to begin processing launch vehicles for their missions.

We just want to be sure that we're in a position, whether it's Boeing ( BA ) or ULA, to meet their launch requirements. We want to be sure they are there and ready to go when they need the capability.

We're very pleased that the agreements were ratified and we look forward to those employees returning to work. It comes a day before it would have been three months.

Boeing is still committed to the United Launch Alliance as the right path for lower cost, reliable assured access to space. We have provided the government with the information they need to complete their review of this complex transaction, and we are awaiting final government approvals.

Boeing has not heard anything one way or the other, and we were not part of the meeting.

It's a shift in the way we go about doing our business. We've gone from seven customer-facing organizations, whether it's Air Force systems, Navy systems, whatever, to a more capabilities-focused organization where you're bringing together ... all of those programs that would create the opportunities for us to improve performance, improve our cost structure and respond to the transforming needs of those customers.

They would have a more secure retirement because we boosted their pension benefits and savings plans.

In this time of defense budgets being what they are, there certainly is a mandate from the Pentagon to bring down costs to be competitive to meet their needs.

I didn't know if I got it. I thought it was a pop fly, but it carried.