Pros
The technical team was incredibly innovative and willing to actively manage both Risk and Opportunity to get a challenging program to the finish line. I was totally impressed by the way that the program team pulled together to get the job done despite all sorts of challenges, The PMO model ranged from outstanding in most cases to occasionally indecisive at critical junctures, But there was a definite one team, one mission atmosphere at least most of the time I worked there.
Cons
Ball Aerospace was recently acquired by BAE Systems, Inc. and while this is probably good for the BAE Corporation, it is really not clear what overall effect it will have for the legacy Ball Aerospace team members. They began laying off former Ball Aerospace employees in May 2024, within a couple months of acquisition. But I believe that this was a result of the former Ball Aerospace's inability to secure enough backlog to maintain the the team they had built so aggressively in the 2020- 2023.