[Wuli]

This could hurt my nephew. He works for Sikorsky and this is the second major government helicopter order they have lost in as many years.

Last month they set him to work 2 of five days a week from home, so that his office/desk/space could be shared with someone else working three days a week from home. That's a cost cutting measure to keep people while reducing their expenses for offices.

In the engineering/military-industrial businesses,
the offices are easy to replace, the technical and engineering expertise and experience is not. When these firms lose too many contracts, they often lose talent that they never get back. Thus, they lose the human factor that creates the ideas for competitive products. These companies become large, buying the smaller ones out, so that they have enough business to keep a solid core of their best talent on staff.

Sikorsky's ability to do that is getting harder and harder.

[chit*chat]

In the engineering/military-industrial businesses, the offices are easy to replace, the technical and engineering expertise and experience is not. When these firms lose too many contracts, they often lose talent that they never get back. Thus, they lose the human factor that creates the ideas for competitive products. These companies become large, buying the smaller ones out, so that they have enough business to keep a solid core of their best talent on staff.

You are so right about that. Hopefully they will win a contract in the near future and beef up their resources.

[taxed2death]

I've studied at BEI and quite a few of the teachers are Sikorsky engineers by day.
These guys are so intelligent...sometimes when you walk out at the end of class you'd think your head was gonna explode. The knowledge base that Sikorsky provides the community is amazing. I sure hope the "new" goobermint throws them some scraps. It would be a damned shame to see this place go under.

[river rat]

"Thus, they lose the human factor that creates the ideas for competitive products."

If they've lost two of the large contracts in as many years -- perhaps they've already lost the "talent"..

Semper Fi