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>>56618530
I work for the boeing Defense side, space/commercial are shit. Boeing is at the stage where it's a monopoly but can't get anything done due to red tape.

Defense has tons of red tape too but that tape is from the government and all contractors deal with it.

there are two things to note, Boeing Defense can completely prop up the Commercial side, that's how much money those Mil contracts generate. Also Boeing is one of two players in the airplane industry, and unless you want to wait like 10 years for a plane your have to order from them (IE the only reason boeing is getting orders is because they're the only person you can go to).

Another thing to note is: one of the reasons Boeing is "unstoppable" is because they have factories and subcontractors all over the country, if you cancel one of their programs/projects, you guarantee job losses in tons of congressional districts. Making it very politically disadvantageous to do so.
(side note: gov is starting to preference "mom n pop" mil contractors, so that will slightly affect the mil side)

In short: To big to fail but to retarded to be successful (and the gov probably won't let them fail either)

Sorry for reddit spacing, a lot of thoughts here, crazy that I come back to /biz/ after a while and boeing gets mentioned