Boeing CEO Downplays Concerns Over Potential LRSB Contract Loss

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Boeing’s CEO this week played down concerns that the unsuccessful pursuit of the new Long-Range StrikernBomber could have significant impacts on the company. “There’s enough technology and we regroup and regrowrnorganically,” Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said during a May 12 investor conference. Developed through Boeing Commercial Airlines (BCA) and Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), Boeing’s industrial base would remainrnat scale, McNerney said, while BDS would downsize. It “would not be dramatically smaller than it is, but it wouldrnbe smaller than it is today,” he said. “We would not overreact and feel that we had to get big again right away,rnbecause we’ve got BCA. We’ve got this great aerospace company and BCA, arguably the strongest businessrnwithin the aerospace industry. And so, we don’t have to panic.”