Jim Albaugh Quotations

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.

The announced organization will continue our customer focus, improve our ability to execute and position Boeing for sustainable, long-term growth and profitability in a changing market environment.

There is less work to be garnered out there and this is a way to do it.

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.

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.

Programs come and go. Enduring needs are just that.

Programs come and go. But if you have the right capabilities, you're going to be OK over the long haul.

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

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.

The whole company is firing on all cylinders.

I have never seen a time like this before when the business opportunity from our international operations was so vibrant.

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.

You can wrap any kind of airframe around those operating systems. I think the investment we have made will serve us very well.