Jim Albaugh
Jim Albaugh
JamesF. Albaughis the former Executive Vice President of The Boeing Company and Chief Executive Officer of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes business unit. He served in these capacities for Boeing Commercial Airplanes from September 1, 2009 until his retirement on June 26, 2012. He retired from the company on October 1, 2012. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security business unit. In that capacity, Albaugh was responsible for over 70,000 employees and supervised...
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There is less work to be garnered out there and this is a way to do it.
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Commercial information and communications are areas where we understand the customer, where we bring unique solutions no one else has the capabilities or resources to provide.
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These programs have been restructured and canceled and resurrected a half dozen times over the last couple of years. And I think we'll be in good shape as these programs get reconfigured.
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Programs come and go. Enduring needs are just that.
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Programs come and go. But if you have the right capabilities, you're going to be OK over the long haul.
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People touching product and programs won't be affected much.
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That's not going to change just because Secretary Rumsfeld might move on, any more than tomorrow we might decide we're going to throw away our computers and start writing letters again.
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The whole company is firing on all cylinders.
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I have never seen a time like this before when the business opportunity from our international operations was so vibrant.
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Howard brings to this position a wealth of experience managing large, complex programs. He has held a number of increasingly important leadership roles in the company and these experiences are vitally important to our government space customers and to our commercial business.
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You can wrap any kind of airframe around those operating systems. I think the investment we have made will serve us very well.
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On the positive side, we learned how important mobility and precision strike and global situation awareness and integrated command and control were. On the negative side, I think we also understand that fratricide or friendly fire continues to be an issue.