From The Seattle Times:
Speech by Doug Bain, Boeing senior vice president and general
counsel, at Boeing Leadership Meeting on Jan. 5, 2006, in Orlando, Fla.:
...Today, I think our biggest issue we face is export.
These are our five biggest export problems, and I think you can see
every heritage company and every business unit represented here.
We have not resolved QRS-11 [a gyrochip Boeing exported inside some
of its commercial jets without an export license between 2000 and
2003], which is a BCA issue. But the other four, we have paid a total
of $50 million in penalties, we've had three consent decrees and
several special compliance officers.
It's also affected the way we do business, because we've had to go the extra mile.
When I was in BCA, we had four people in export. Today, Mike Bair
[head of the 787 program] tells me, on the 787 program they have over
100.
The State Department's view of Boeing is we just don't get it. There
are too many violations, and as a result it's probably their intention
to hammer us on QRS-11.
The cultural question we need to ask is, do we view export as
somebody else's problem because my job is to sell product? Or is it all
of our responsibilities?
To Bain's question, I'll add another -- have you forwarded this to your general counsel yet?
