Well, I was there, and what you are claiming was not "obvious" or "hard to miss." The other explanations were far more evident. There is an observed tendency for people to brush off ineptitude or bad motivation in favor of outright conspiracy.
Prior to the merger, the middle management ranks were depleted by an early retirement incentive = brain drain. Most of the middle managers were former engineers. They may not have been the world's best managers, but at least they understood engineering. Post-merger, these ranks were filled from the McDonnel-Douglas side, many of whom had non-engineering or military backgrounds, and no appreciation of engineering needs and practices.
The key players in the merger and subsequent company top organization got embroiled in personal scandals and ethics problems that resulted in their ejection and replacement by executives who had no background in advanced engineering. Or, sometimes, neither in common sense. The later-to-be-CEO Dennis Muilenberg was in charge of the Future Combat System (FCS) program, which ran for years, costing the taxpayers billions, but produced nothing. Yet Muilenberg was esteemed for running such a remunerative program.
Meanwhile, the Board of Directors was being steadily enlarged with sycophants and former government officials or officers, with the intent being to better acquire an "angle" on potential government business.
This story can be a long one, which I have no time to recount. There is plenty that can be ascribed to ignorance, lack of expertise, ethical skirting, folly... One does NOT need to invoke CCP agents. Why would they be needed? The dumbbells were already wrecking the company.
Well, I was there, and what you are claiming was not "obvious" or "hard to miss." The other explanations were far more evident. There is an observed tendency for people to brush off ineptitude or bad motivation in favor of outright conspiracy.
Prior to the merger, the middle management ranks were depleted by an early retirement incentive = brain drain. Most of the middle managers were former engineers. They may not have been the world's best managers, but at least they understood engineering. Post-merger, these ranks were filled from the McDonnel-Douglas side, many of whom had non-engineering or military backgrounds, and no appreciation of engineering needs and practices.
The key players in the merger and subsequent company top organization got embroiled in personal scandals and ethics problems that resulted in their ejection and replacement by executives who had no background in advanced engineering. Or, sometimes, neither in common sense. The later-to-be-CEO Dennis Muilenberg was in charge of the Future Combat System (FCS) program, which ran for years, costing the taxpayers billions, but produced nothing. Yet Muilenberg was esteemed for running such a remunerative program.
Meanwhile, the Board of Directors was being steadily enlarged with sycophants and former government officials or officers, with the intent being to better acquire an "angle" on potential government business.
This story can be a long one, which I have no time to recount. There is plenty that can be ascribed to ignorance, lack of expertise, ethical skirting, folly... One does NOT need to invoke CCP agents. Why would they be needed? The dumbbells were already wrecking the company.