Boeing to consolidate key defense-space programs

Boeing is consolidating management of key defense and space development programs into a new organization to enhance its performance on the p...

Boeing is consolidating management of key defense and space development programs into a new organization to enhance its performance on the pre-production development activities, address development risks and affordability issues.

The BDS Development is patterned on the Airplane Development organization in Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Those groups demonstrate the company’s best-of-Boeing approach to reducing risk and improving the affordability of key development activities.

Six programs now managed elsewhere in BDS will be the first ones overseen by BDS Development:

• U.S. Air Force KC-46 aerial refueling tanker.
• The Air Force’s presidential aircraft.
• CST-100 spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew program.
• NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which will take humans beyond Earth orbit.
• Boeing’s 502 small satellite effort.
• BDS work on Boeing’s 777X commercial airplane.

Jim O’Neill, formerly president of the BDS Global Services & Support unit, will lead BDS Development while Leanne Caret, the BDS chief financial officer, will succeed O’Neill as president of GS&S.