Before graduate school I worked at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. There on the Airborne Laser program I was steeped in the virtues of accountability and responsibility. This wasn’t necessarily a big part of the job description when I first arrived, but it came to be a huge part of the culture over the years that I was there.…
Before graduate school I worked at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. There on the Airborne Laser program I was steeped in the virtues of accountability and responsibility. This wasn’t necessarily a big part of the job description when I first arrived, but it came to be a huge part of the culture over the years that I was there. In fact, the day-to-day language and decision making processes are all about accountability and responsibility. Everyone knew what they were responsible for. It was part of your performance review. The entire system engineering process from concept development, critical design review, detailed design review to building and launching is a beautiful work of art and science.
After graduate school I worked at The Aerospace Corporation, an FFRDC overseeing the work of contractors like Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, etc. Here I was surprised that employees of Aerospace looked so negatively upon the defense contractors. My experience at Lockheed had been one of integrity, accountability and responsibility.
What I don’t know and couldn’t see in either organization is the ethical behavior of the executives at defense contractors. What holds them accountable? How much room is there for them to cheat tax payers?
Before graduate school I worked at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. There on the Airborne Laser program I was steeped in the virtues of accountability and responsibility. This wasn’t necessarily a big part of the job description when I first arrived, but it came to be a huge part of the culture over the years that I was there. In fact, the day-to-day language and decision making processes are all about accountability and responsibility. Everyone knew what they were responsible for. It was part of your performance review. The entire system engineering process from concept development, critical design review, detailed design review to building and launching is a beautiful work of art and science.
After graduate school I worked at The Aerospace Corporation, an FFRDC overseeing the work of contractors like Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, etc. Here I was surprised that employees of Aerospace looked so negatively upon the defense contractors. My experience at Lockheed had been one of integrity, accountability and responsibility.
What I don’t know and couldn’t see in either organization is the ethical behavior of the executives at defense contractors. What holds them accountable? How much room is there for them to cheat tax payers?