Posted on 11/08/2012 9:30:28 AM PST by Red Steel
Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs.
The company told employees about the changes on Wednesday, in a memo obtained by Reuters and confirmed by Boeing.
Boeing, the Pentagon's second-largest supplier, said the changes were the latest step in an affordability drive that has already reduced the company's costs by $2.2 billion since 2010, according to the memo.
The measures come as U.S. weapons makers are under pressure to cut costs and preserve profit margins amid dwindling defense spending in the U.S.
In a message to employees, Dennis Muilenburg, chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, said the company aimed to cut costs by an additional $1.6 billion from 2013 through 2015.
"We are raising the bar higher because our market challenges and opportunities require it, and our customers' needs demand it," Muilenburg said.
He said the total savings would reach $4 billion, making the company healthier and better able to deal with a tougher marketplace.
He said Boeing would cut the number of executive jobs an additional 10 percent by the end of 2012, bringing overall cuts in its executive team to 30 percent for the past two years, a move that would result in a 10 percent cut in management costs.
Boeing said the changes were not a response to the threat of additional, across-the-board U.S. budget cuts due to take effect on Jan. 2, or the outcome of U.S. elections, but represented another step in its continuing drive to "be more competitive while investing in technologies and people."
Boeing said it could not project exactly how workers would lose their jobs because it would try to place people in its growing commercial business.
What locations are being closed?
I heard that Wichita was announced as one of the sites closing.
Does anyone know of others?
I hope the libs enjoy their maggot filled dumpster feedings.
What good are enemy sympathizers?
??? You consider comments on an anonymous forum that happen to disagree with others, to be enemy sympathy?
Do you leave your lights on at nite too?
What good is CONSERVATIVE forum with non-conservative members like yourself.
What good is a CONSERVATIVE forum with non-conservative members like yourself.
Your sympathies are obvious.
Yet my voting records says differently, odd isn’t it?
Please see #48
People voted Obama for various reasons of their own, and mostly not reasons based on anything substantive.
We'll have to live with that for four years, and HOPE Dems see the errors of their ways in Two.
Welcome to the Pre-Apocolyptic world of Socialism.
Yet your words say differently. Odd isn’t it?
I hope that is true.
That’s the beauty of anonymous web forums...equally odd, ain’t it?
Irrational statements are only beautiful in the eyes of the neurotic who made them.
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