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Article: Problems won't reverse outsourcing, analyst says.(Aerospace News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 14, 2009
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Problems with suppliers to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner are "growing pains" that will not upend the outsourcing trend, despite the company's acquisition of a key plant, according to an industry analyst.
"What we've seen at Boeing and others in the (aerospace and defense) industry is the transformation of the supply chain," Scott Thompson, U.S. aerospace and defense practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, said Friday. "Along with that transformation there's going to be some growing pains, but I don't see a reversal."
Thompson spoke just after a new revelation that Boeing halted supplier Alenia Aeronautica's work on two 787 Dreamliner sections in June ...