[TowerTalk] New FCC chariman needs to be a HAM!

[Alan Zack]

IMO that's what is wrong with Boeing now.  When I worked for Rockwell 
Intl (North American Aviation Div) the engineers worked their way up 
to the Division President and V.P. slots.  When contracts were 
completed they kept the engineers busy on R&D for the next contract, 
even at corp expense.  Rockwell was able to get the B1-B contract 
because of the R&D they had done on their own when the gov't opened 
the bidding.  They were ready.  Then Boeing bought out Rockell Space 
and Defense Division.  The shuttle craft went down hill, there were no 
new big contracts.  Boeing then bought out MDA/MDC.  Now what is left 
of MDA is going to hell.  Why, because all the big shots running the 
show are MBA's brought in from financial institutions to make money 
for the stockholder.  They sell the buildings, then have to rent 
office space back from the new owners.  When contracts end they lay 
off 1000's of Engineers and techs with almost no one to do the R&D for 
future contracts.  When they get a contract they have to hire 1000's 
of new people who don't know what they are doing and cause delays and 
screw ups.
I am sorry Boeing ever bought out R.I. and MDA.  I wonder if anyone 
else who worked for a company that Boeing bought out feels the same.

Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) wrote:

> Probably for the same reason that US companies are, increasingly, run by 
> people who have no real knowledge of the company's products or 
> production processes. At the time of the Daimler/Chrysler merger, it was 
> said that wheras Daimler-Benz was run by engineers, Chrysler was run by 
> "managers." So in the US people can move from running a soft-drink co. 
> to running a computer co. or from running a car co. to running a 
> breakfast cereal co. to running an airline.
> 
> Alan NV8A
> 
> 
> On 01/22/05 03:46 am hermans tossed the following ingredients into the 
> ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
> 
>> Should one understand that one can be FCC chairman without any technical
>> background states-side ?
> 
> 


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Alan Zack
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