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How is Boeing successful with this project and not with Starliner?
by t1234s 2y ago
How is Boeing successful with this project and not with Starliner?
- quotemstr 2y agoI imagine skunkworks is an entirely separate part of the company.
- vineyardlabs 2y agoYou mean PhantomWorks. Skunk Works is Lockheed Martin's advanced R&D arm.
- dylan604 2y agoThey didn't say Skunk Works, they said skunkworks. It's a pretty common phrase now used to describe the secret process of developing something inspired by the Lockheed Martin's group.
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- HideousKojima 2y agoNot needing to be human-rated helps quite a bit (and increases the level of acceptable risk).
- vineyardlabs 2y agoNote that the X37B has been flying since 2011 and is part of a larger program that has been ongoing at Boeing since the late 90s. It's likely that a lot of the hard work was accomplished before the MBAs at Boeing ruined the company to the extent that they have today.
- bell-cot 2y agoThe Starliner program is a painfully unprofitable fixed-price contract with NASA. Which is a relatively minor Boeing customer. Vs. the X-37B program is likely to be a highly profitable cost-plus contract with the Pentagon. Which is a far bigger Boeing customer. I'd figure that Boeing has kept its eyes on the bottom lines when assigning people and resources to the two programs.
- philipwhiuk 2y agoBoeing hasn't really had to do much on the X-37B for ages and I suspect the company is quite silo'd (for good and bad reasons).