"john smith" wrote in message
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| Larry Dighera wrote:
| Does this mean that Boeing will reduce its pressure on Congress to
| privatize ATC?
| BOEING said that it is scaling back its investment in its air
| traffic management business and named Kevin Brown as the new
| head, beginning April 1. Brown succeeds John Hayhurst, who is
| retiring. Boeing also said the business will become part of
| Phantom Works, Boeing's research and development unit. Brown,
| whose new title will be VP, air traffic management, will report
| to Robert Krieger, president of Phantom Works. "Boeing will
| continue to pursue advances in air traffic management that will
| enhance efficiency, capacity and security," said Boeing
| President and Chief Executive Harry Stonecipher. "However, in
| an effort to be more efficient, we are scaling down our
| investment and making an organizational change to meet current
| demand.
| (Reuters 09:26 AM ET 03/04/2004)
| Mo
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| They probably finally got the "real" numbers on how much it would
| actually cost to run the system vice the low bid they would have to make
| to win the contract. Losing proposition. I always wondered who would be
| responsible for paying a lawsuit resulting from an accident/incident.
| The government or the contractor?

Boeing will probably lose any bid to an off-shore contractor with little or
no regard for (or understanding of) National Security will under-bid them.
Any new system be built by the lowest-bidder, you know, like the Space
Shuttle. It happens all to often in almost every other industry. So why
should Boeing even bother trying now?