When you're in the thick of it, it's sort of a "frog-in-pot" effect where you just notice that things are bad and have been for a whole, but when taking a few d

When you're in the thick of it, it's sort of a "frog-in-pot" effect where you just notice that things are bad and have been for a whole, but when taking a few dozen big steps back and looking at the whole thing in its gross entirety, from 1990s to now . . that was awful. And Oliver didn't even spit in the direction of the wall-to-wall screwball comedy of fail from the BDS side of things. They've not been having a great time, and to this day the discipline of performing on fixed-price contracts seems to elude them. Phantom Works and BGS legit have the best claim to success, but BPW is, well, tiny - they do black research stuff. And BGS . . BGS is an enigma. One big financial success of that org is def due to how Boeing's structured internally. Howayyyyyyver . . there is a reasonably-high-probability BGS cycles refurb parts as new on the regular[1]. Also supplies the greater Boeing org with an excellent stage venue for Depreciation, the Amazing Accounting Dog. Amusing cash tricks had gotten them a loooooong way in the ZIRP era . . but those days are quite gone. [1] Something Boeing gets fined for ever other year, and not just inside BGS, either.