During the Future Combat System program, I spent a couple of weeks embedded at Boeing in Seattle. I could write a whole article on the things I saw that were systemic problems with the company. Skipping over that as even a short list is too long for a post, the solution would be to break Boeing apart, free it from the union and move the various parts to new locations. This would create a clean break with the systemic problems. Fixing Boeing in its current form would be like putting Band-Aids on a damn breach.
Oh, it’s worse than that.
I was dealing with Boeing years ago with a contract.
The drawings were loaded with simple math errors (I don’t care how many formula’s you use, 2+2 does not equal 5).
To get simple mathematical errors on a drawing corrected was a massive undertaking.
Layer upon layer of engineering management made correcting simple math errors virtually impossible.
And my time was billable.