Boeing Moving HQ to Washington D.C.
There is a display case in one of their public tour entrances with models of Boeing's past and present product lines. Including a model of the XB-70. I don't recall them being around when the drawings for that were still blank.
Possibly they expect some big arming up concerning China/Pacific and Russia as well. So why not just move group HQ next door to the biggest customer and decision makers?
Boeing has had a rather large presence in the DC area for a number of years and I'm sure they have a few open offices available for the move. Perhaps the rent district in Chicagoland is a bit too costly in their current balance sheets?
Obviously, they need to get even further from the engineers. The focus on engineering was the root cause of the success of the 707, 727, 737 [original], 747, 757, 767 and 777 [original]].
Financial engineering produced the 787, MAX, 747-8 and 777X,
The path to a successful future is clear. /s
It would be sad if this was just the death throes of a dying company. But it seems to be representative of something much deeper in our society.
Financial engineering produced the 787, MAX, 747-8 and 777X,
The path to a successful future is clear. /s
It would be sad if this was just the death throes of a dying company. But it seems to be representative of something much deeper in our society.
Precisely and sadly. Play taps.
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Boeing is already here though.
Boeing has had a considerable presence at the Long Branch complex since about 2015. I was on the construction team (SLF telecom engineer, not employed by TBC). Yes there are some very cool secret squirrel parts of that facility used for demos and training but much of it is admin, sales, and support in addition to relationship building. It's not much of a stretch to relocate the HQ here. They'll be across the street from Amazon on one side and the Pentagon on the other. Not that this bodes well for Commercial Airplanes but it could be worse.
Do they intend to sell their airliner business? Then a move right in front of the DoD would make sense.
Privatization of the profits and socialization of the loses, it’s the American way of business.
Good idea for Airbus - the main mission of the office would be to keep pressure on Washington bureaucracy and Boeing to continue have contracts (and projects) like the new generation of tankers for the USAF.
“Perhaps Airbus should open an office nearby.
Boeing's recent performance on military projects is not great in every instance.”
Like Airbus Americas Inc HQ USA
2550 Wasser Terrace #9100, Herndon, VA 20171, United States
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Airbus Inc Space and Defence
1525 Wilson Blvd STE 500, Arlington, VA 22209, United States
Boeing's recent performance on military projects is not great in every instance.”
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The board/management instigated idea to "spread" the development risk, by outsourcing nearly all development and production, worked out even worse than the over-budget/time of the B777 (add to that the consequence of limited internal knowledge of the core technologies). The board/management decision to give the B737 another MAX life worked out dramatically, a $20B+ costing event never seen in Boing history and probably US airline experience. And the board/management decision to extend the B777 life into an -X (in itself not that bad), which in turn exploded on approval tests and started disclosing significant cheating (attempts ?) on certification.
Boing got rid of the experienced developers/engineers, and I did not see a significant amount of new hiring announcements of suitably experienced people to do this kind of state-of-the-art development/engineering work (correct me, when I am wrong). Which more or less implies, there is no development for an 321XLR competitor, no NMA, no A350 competitor.
And the most important aspect is that all public Boing communications is showing a focus on the finances and seemingly neglecting the core engineering stuff (which in the end is the reason why a customer wants to buy -advanced technology- Boing airplanes and consequential the finances exist). KLM biting the bullet and migrating to Airbus should be a clear indication, IE no new developments in that area (KLM especially wanted to increase fuel efficiency, the green-look).
Or so to say, there is a lack of mental connection between Boing board/management and the core reason why customers would be prepared to select Boing aircrafts. Not good.
They don't seem to earn that much money anymore even with programs that sell well by number. Well there is the parts and services business to make money with but still this can't have been the plan it seems?
I think that is absolutely the end game. The crony capitalism of defence contracting fits perfectly with the mindset and skills of the current senior Boeing management. I predict they will load up Boeing Commercial with all the Boeing debt, spin it off into Chapter 11 and then have some vulture fund scoop up what is left and finish running it into the ground.
Privatization of the profits and socialization of the loses, it’s the American way of business.
Privatization of the profits and socialization of the loses, it’s the American way of business.
Why not run for the Mars? Public money would still flow, but not to death-and-destruction bringing products.
There will be a lot of new and different stuff needed for pacific conflict scenarios that we might face sooner than later. Boeing is right to expect big defense business. But they would not be right splitting off the commercial airliner subdivision. Especially now that it needs to catch up on latest technology, software and robot manufacturing that is already used in the military side of the business.