"Tarver Engineering" wrote .


BCAG is suffering from a loss of export tax subsidies ($4 billion disputed
by EU) and the AI member countries subsidising their airplanes. I don't
really see any reason why the US government would not assist Boeing in
some
manner.

The tanker deal looked to be a real help, but this Boeing shooting
themselves in the foot on the military side has to stop.

The comprehensive way Boeing has screwed its many businesses is fairly
amazing.

Launcher business? The pricing information brought over from LockMart cost a
billion in booked orders cancelled.

Satellites? The underwriters have been so burned by the BSS-701 failures
that one underwriter said that until the underlying quality problems are
fixed that Boeing satellites were uninsureable.

NMD? More competitor pricing information (this time from Raytheon) cause
Boeing to hand the NMD kill vehicle contract to Raytheon rather than have
ex-Rockwell BSS do it.

And now the suggestion that Darlene Druyun brought over competitive pricing
information from DoD (which I don't believe for a second). Druyun oversaw
the procurement of_very_sensitive, large dollar value procurements that make
the tanker contract look like small beer.

It's little wonder that Condit is history.