Frontierswww.boeing.com/frontiers APRIL 2009 / Volume VII, Issue XI Aiming Boeing’s Space Exploration team is working to support NASA—and seek new business opportunities. APRIL 2009 / BOEING FRONTIERS BOEING FRONTIERS / APRIL 2009 / VOLUME VII, ISSUE XI On the Cover 12 Space for growth Boeing and its predecessor companies have played an indispensable role in helping the U.S. space program attain its awe-inspiring achievements. Boeing’s space team—including Pat Schondel (right), vice presi- dent of Business Development for Boeing Space Exploration— is pursuing projects, both with NASA and with private partners, to make sure it remains a critical partner in spaceflight. PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON/BOEING COVER IMAGE: NataLIE DIXON AND ELLIOT HARIK ARE HOUSTON-BASED EMPLOYEES IN BOEING’S Space EXPLoration BUSINESS. PHOTO ILLUS- TRATION: BRANDON LUONG/BOEING; EMPLOYEE PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON/BOEING; SHUTTLE PHOTO/NASA Main Feature Thank you for your support 36 Being a good corporate citizen is among Boeing’s business strategies. It’s a value that endures in large part through the efforts of its employees. Here’s a look at some of the community volunteering activities Boeing people undertake. BOEING FRONTIERS / APRIL 2009 / VOLUME VII, ISSUE XI 3 Something from nothing Meet the Shared Services Group team whose work ensures that discarded products and 22 materials are disposed of properly. Its efforts also help Boeing get the optimum value from unneeded assets—and meet the company’s environmental goals. Home maintenance With last month’s delivery of the Starboard 6 truss segment, Boeing’s work on creating major 30 assemblies of the International Space Station is completed. Now comes the task of supporting ISS operations, including what’s needed to outfit the ISS for its role as a science lab. In a class of its own The 787 Dreamliner is ushering in revolutionary advancements in aviation and technology. As 34 part of these achievements, the 787 program and Alteon, Commercial Airplanes’ training unit, have been hard at work together to revolutionize 787 training. The signal is clear The U.S. Navy is seeking a new signals intelligence aircraft, currently known as EP-X. 42 Boeing believes it can provide the best value to the Navy through the capabilities the company and its teammates offer—and because Boeing can leverage its work on the Navy’s P-8A Poseidon. 30 INSIDE Following battery installation, the Solar Array Wing is reinstalled 06 Calendar 45 Stock Charts on the S6 lower deck Integrated Equipment Assembly in preparation for the truss segment's delivery to the International 07 Notebook 46 Milestones Space Station last month. Boeing engineer Sam Amundsen is 08 Historical Perspective 49 Around Boeing shown on the left; technician Elijah Walker on the right. MELANIE GURNAVAGE/INDYNE 10 New and Notable 50 Spotlight 4 CONTENTS / BOEING FRONTIERS BOEING FRONTIERS / LEADERSHIP MESSAGE Leadership Message Ethics and leadership: All of us help shape our work environment Wanda Denson-Low Senior vice president, Office of Internal Governance ife’s daily demands can create a lot of pressure. Home and family obligations, work expectations and our own desire Lto excel can create tremendous stress. Add the current economic environment, increased challenges for greater perfor- mance and the anxiety caused by layoffs, and you have a situa- tion primed for higher risk and potential missteps. Take for example this recent story about a Boeing employee. Because of work force reductions caused by changing business demands, she moved to a new proposal team. Also, she had just The Ethics organization, part of the Boeing Office of Internal purchased her first home, and her young family needed her in- Governance, is launching an initiative called “Leadership Mat- come to help pay the mortgage and living expenses. ters.” It isn’t a new program; it isn’t a program at all. “Leadership Before this new assignment, the employee had been involved Matters” is a way to explain what employees are already doing to in a teaming arrangement where she had been exposed to com- sustain a work environment where issues can be raised without petitor data that was also related to the new proposal team. In fear of reprisal, and where all constructive input can be shared. her words, she said she remembered from her ethics training that Through everyday acts, employees shape the work environment there could be a conflict of interest. Given the tough business by the way they conduct themselves and the choices they make. environment at the time, she worried that if she spoke up, she Every time we encourage open and productive dialogue, we are would be taken off the team and there might not be another suit- contributing to the kind of work environment where errors can able position for her. surface and corrections can be made early. Her decision was to seek the advice of an ethics advisor, who When the Office of Internal Governance was formed, Boeing assured her that she had done the right thing by alerting the broke new ground by creating an integrated approach to mitigat- company to the situation. The ethics advisor and her manager ing and monitoring risk. As a result, we have become a bench- found another position for her on a different team. mark for other companies looking to respond to increased regula- While it might seem that the right answer would be clear, tory demands and greater public scrutiny. By bringing together especially since we know the outcome, it’s also understandable ethics, corporate investigations, audit and the export/import func- that when faced with such a personal dilemma, it took a lot of tions under a single organization, Boeing has an unmatched ad- courage to speak up. The employee understood the potential vantage for gathering and analyzing data from multiple sources, risks to the company if she didn’t tell anyone, and she took per- which enables us to identify and address potential weaknesses in sonal responsibility to protect her co-workers, the customer and proactive rather than reactive ways. It is a leaner and timelier ap- the Boeing reputation. She also preserved the company’s ability proach that is leading us to higher-quality compliance, improved to compete for the program—which, if won, would sustain jobs efficiencies and reduced cost to our businesses. at her location, proving that the ethical decision is the good busi- It is in this way, and through the leadership of our employees ness decision. who are sustaining a culture of openness and inclusion, that we This story, like countless others, illustrates how our employees are making ethics and compliance our competitive advantage. n are demonstrating leadership at all levels of the company, regard- less of job title. Leadership along with an open and inclusive work environment are essential in high-performing organizations. They are, by no coincidence, the same principles that drive an ethical culture. CONTENTS / BOEING FRONTIERS BOEING FRONTIERS / LEADERSHIP MESSAGE 5 Calendar Frontiers April 7–9: Air Cargo Management Group’s 5th Annual Air Cargo, Express & Freighter Aircraft Workshop. Seattle. See www.cargofacts.com Publisher: Tom Downey Editorial director: Anne Toulouse April 21–23: Boeing Lean+ Conference. Anaheim, Calif. See http://leo.web.boeing.com/ EDITORIAL TEAM Events/LEC/Spring2009/LEC_Spring2009.cfm on the Boeing intranet Editor: April 22–23: Aviation Week 2009 MRO Military Symposium. Dallas. See www. Paul Proctor: 312-544-2938 aviationweek.com/events/current/mil Managing editor: Junu Kim: 312-544-2939 May 4–6: SpeedNews 7th Annual Aerospace & Defense Industry Suppliers Conference. Deputy managing editor: Los Angeles. See www.speednews.com/ConferenceInfo.aspx?conferenceID=22 Vineta Plume: 312-544-2954 Designer: May 6–7: Airline Purchasing Expo 2009. London. See www.aviationindustrygroup.com Brandon Luong: 312-544-2118 May 6–7: Aviation Week Bird Strike Prevention Forum. Chicago. See www.aviationweek. Commercial Airplanes editor: Julie O’Donnell: 206-766-1329 com/events/current/bird Integrated Defense Systems editor: June 15–21: Paris Air Show. Paris. See www.paris-air-show.com Diane Stratman: 562-797-1443 Shared Services editor: July 20–23: 19th Annual Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering. Beriah Osorio: 425-577-4157 Singapore. See www.incose.org/symp2009 Human Resources and Administration editor: Sept. 8–10: Asian Aerospace 2009. Hong Kong. See www.asianaerospace.com Geoff Potter: 312-544-2946 Sept. 13–15: 15th World Route Development Forum. Beijing. See www.routesonline.com Copy editor: Cynthia P. Wicks: 425-442-7008 Sept. 14–16: SpeedNews 10th Annual Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference. Toulouse, ONLINE PRODUCTION France. See www.speednews.com/ConferenceInfo.aspx?conferenceID=3 Production manager: Sept. 14–17: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Space Alma Dayawon: 312-544-2936 2009 Conference and Exhibition. Pasadena, Calif. See www.aiaa.org/content. Web designer: Michael Craddock: 312-544-2931 cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2074 Graphic artist: Sept. 15–17: Cargo Facts 2009. Seattle. See www.cargofacts.com Brandon Luong: 312-544-2118 Web developers: Oct. 20–22: National Business Aviation Association 62nd Annual Meeting & Convention. Lynn Hesby: 312-544-2934 Atlanta. See www.nbaa.org Keith Ward: 312-544-2935 Information technology consultant: Oct. 20–25: Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition 2009. Seoul. Tina Skelley: 312-544-2323 See www.seoulairshow.com HOW TO CONTACT US: Nov. 15–19: Dubai Airshow 2009. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. See http://dubaiairshow. E-mail: aero [email protected] Dec. 2–3: Aviation Week Aerospace & Defense Finance Conference. New York. See www. Mailing address: Boeing Frontiers aviationweek.com/events/current/fin MC: 5003-0983 Dec. 8–10: Aviation Week MRO Asia 2009. Hong Kong. See www.aviationweek.com/ 100 N. Riverside Plaza Chicago, IL 60606 events/current/mas Phone: 312-544-2954 Corrections: Fax: 312-544-2078 In “Wanna talk trade? Boeing’s right there” (March 2009, Page 46), a sidebar to the ar- Web address: ticle “The real deal,” the number of airplanes Chinese airlines are expected to buy over www.boeing.com/frontiers the next 20 years was misstated.