Jim Albaugh Quotes (10 Quotes)

Commercial information and communications are areas where we understand the customer, where we bring unique solutions no one else has the capabilities or resources to provide.

You can wrap any kind of airframe around those operating systems. I think the investment we have made will serve us very well.

The whole company is firing on all cylinders.

That's not going to change just because Secretary Rumsfeld might move on, any more than tomorrow we might decide we're going to throw away our computers and start writing letters again.

I have never seen a time like this before when the business opportunity from our international operations was so vibrant.

We're not going to continue to enjoy 10 percent compound sales growth. It's going to be down in the 2-4 percent range.

On the positive side, we learned how important mobility and precision strike and global situation awareness and integrated command and control were. On the negative side, I think we also understand that fratricide or friendly fire continues to be an issue.

These programs have been restructured and canceled and resurrected a half dozen times over the last couple of years. And I think we'll be in good shape as these programs get reconfigured.

The announced organization will continue our customer focus, improve our ability to execute and position Boeing for sustainable, long-term growth and profitability in a changing market environment.

Howard brings to this position a wealth of experience managing large, complex programs. He has held a number of increasingly important leadership roles in the company and these experiences are vitally important to our government space customers and to our commercial business.