FORMER HUGHES AIR-traffic supremo Nancy Price is joining Boeing to head its new Aviation Systems organisation.
Aviation Systems is being created to help Boeing focus its systems-integration expertise on the growing air-traffic-management (ATM) market and will be part of the company's Defense and Space Group in Kent, Washington.
Price most recently steered the troubled Canadian air-traffic system into calmer waters. She was president of Hughes Canada Systems division, with responsibility for all the company-supplied air-traffic-control (ATC) systems in that country. She was programme manager for seven software-intensive programmes.
Price becomes vice-president of the new Boeing unit at a critical time. The company is bidding for several major ATM projects, one of the largest being the US Federal Aviation Administration's Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS). The programme could be worth up to $1 billion.
Boeing expects to employ an extra 8,200 people in 1996, following the recent surge in commercial-aircraft orders and its decision to increase production rates. The total employment at Boeing is expected to rise to 113,350 by the end of 1996, compared with 105,185 at the beginning of 1995.
Source: Flight International
