Boeing to cut 100 Delta jobs
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005, 10:48 AM ET (1548 GMT)
Boeing announced Friday that it plans to lay off 100 employees from the Alabama plant that manufactures Delta rockets because of a continuing contracting ban from the Air Force. The cuts will primarily involve manufacturing and related support positions, with some engineering and management positions to be cut as well. A total of 650 people current work at the Decatur, Alabama facility that builds Delta 4 rockets. Boeing officials said the cuts were necessitated by a drop in demand for the vehicle. The Air Force enacted a ban on purchasing Boeing launch vehicles, and transferred seven launches previously awarded to the Delta 4 to Lockheed's Atlas 5, because of improprieties by Boeing employees during the initial EELV contracting process. Boeing also removed the Delta 4 from the commercial market in 2003. A Boeing official said that further job cuts in the Delta program may be required in the future if the contracting ban remains in effect.
Boeing announced Friday that it plans to lay off 100 employees from the Alabama plant that manufactures Delta rockets because of a continuing contracting ban from the Air Force. The cuts will primarily involve manufacturing and related support positions, with some engineering and management positions to be cut as well. A total of 650 people current work at the Decatur, Alabama facility that builds Delta 4 rockets. Boeing officials said the cuts were necessitated by a drop in demand for the vehicle. The Air Force enacted a ban on purchasing Boeing launch vehicles, and transferred seven launches previously awarded to the Delta 4 to Lockheed's Atlas 5, because of improprieties by Boeing employees during the initial EELV contracting process. Boeing also removed the Delta 4 from the commercial market in 2003. A Boeing official said that further job cuts in the Delta program may be required in the future if the contracting ban remains in effect.
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