spacetoday.net: Boeing disciplines employees in EELV investigation

Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2003, 9:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
Boeing has disciplined several employees, including a key manager, who were involved in the appropriation and misuse of Lockheed Martin proprietary documents several years ago in the initial EELV bidding. Boeing said Friday that six employees were disciplined, but not fired, primarily for not alerting company officials about the existence and use of the Lockheed documents. Boeing did not release details of the actions taken against the employees, although the Wall Street Journal reported that the strongest penalty went to Thomas Alexiou, a Delta 4 manager who was the company's primary contact with the Air Force; he was removed from the Delta 4 program entirely, according to the Journal. The company had previously fired three employees who actually acquired and used the documents. Boeing is still under an Air Force suspension from bidding on launch vehicle contracts, but the company hopes that the progress it has made with internal reforms in the wake of the scandal will lead to a lifting of the suspension later this year.