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Boeing cannot withold disclosure whan safety critical systems are not performing
as expected. Service life bears directly on performance specs. They have an absolute duty to disclose this to the authority. If you insist, I will support that with additional information.
And FAA has a duty to monitor.
"Organizational boundaries" are subject to interpretation. My assumption is that the author's intent was to prove a fatal flaw in integrative process, merely because two entities are cooperating, per contract in different locations.
Integration is part of all contracts between corporations in aerospace.
Ask Morton Thiokol.....or Rolls Royce.
And if it is not a part of the bid in the first paragraph, the bid is not read....