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.

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.

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.

The whole company is firing on all cylinders.

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...

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

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...

People touching product and programs won’t be affected much.

There is less work to be garnered out there and this is a way to do it.

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.

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.

Programs come and go. Enduring needs are just that.

Programs come and go. But if you have the right capabilities, you’re going to be OK over the long haul.

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