EADS CEO Louis Gallois today announced that former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will succeed Ralph Crosby as head of the company's North American subsidiary on November 1. Crosby will assume a new role as chairman, but continue to lead the company's pursuit of the KC-X tanker contract in partnership with Northrop Grumman.
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on October 21, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply
This announcement should be a plus for Boeing. O'Keefe wasn't much as head of NASA. They had a lot of problems under his "leadership", many of which could have been solved with internal checks and balances that were never put in place.