Of course I noticed. The auto excerpt feature of Free Republic's thread posting web page only posts text from the beginning of a story. I manually excerpted it and put the last paragraph at the end.
Interesting. Looks like Taiwan is doing the mod work. Not a very lucrative venture maybe. There's just so much lobbying against outsourcing that can be done.
I think Boeing is trying to get out of being a parts manufacturer and more into "large scale system integration".