Boeing Senior Program Manager reviews

Senior R&D VP's and directors whimsical ideas and hanger queens like Phantom Ray, Echo Ranger, etc gobble up funding that could be spent pursuing products of real value to the DoD and intelligence community. Many of the existing long term programs are completely hollowed out technically, but no one will find out until the need for a redesign or a design update. After 35+ years (12 at Boeing) managing many very innovative programs for DARPA / DoD, NRO, etc, I was never in a position where so many things depended on stroking the ego of the VP or Director of a division.