Today’s key stories focus on Boeing’s new CEO and what needs to be done. Editorials in the pacific northwest talk about Boeing returning home and restoring faith in the company. Other stories focus on the challenges facing Kelly Ortberg as new CEO, in particular the legal requirement for monitoring Boeing’s compliance, as well as one regarding the daunting task in changing Boeing’s safety culture.
The other key stories of the weekend focus on the Boeing Starliner and increasing likelihood that the stranded astronauts may be forced to use a Space-X capsule to return to earth. Boeing’s program has been more costly and less effective than its competitor, and the program may be considered a failure if it cannot overcome the flaws discovered to date.
Finally, in other legal news, Boeing is facing legal action accusing the company of stealing a competitor’s spacecraft tools. Boeing’s new CEO will have a busy start to his first week on the job.
Links to today’s key stories follow:
- ‘Not stranded in space’ – how NASA lost control of Boeing Starliner narrative – Guardian
- Editorial: Boeing, come home, and restore faith of public, customers and workers: Bellingham Herald
- The Boeing Monitorship: memo to Attorney General Garland and Kelly Ortberg – JD Supra
- Boeing’s new CEO to steer daunting safety culture rebound – Law360
- Boeing must face suit that it stole competitors spacecraft tools – Bloomberg Law
