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MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Amarion Dickerson had 27 points and 15 rebounds to help Robert Morris hold off Northern Kentucky 97-93 in triple overtime on Sunday. Dickerson blocked five shots and had three steals for the Colonials (9-5, 1-2 Horizon League). Sophomore Alvaro Folgueiras scored 21 points and added a career-high 19 rebounds and six assists. DJ Smith had 13 points. The Norse (7-7, 2-1) were led by LJ Wells, who finished with 19 points, 13 rebounds and two steals. Northern Kentucky also got 17 points and six rebounds from Trey Robinson. Randall Pettus II had 17 points. The Norse saw a five-game win streak come to an end. Dickerson's dunk gave Robert Morris a 94-92 lead with 26 seconds left in the third OT. Dilen Miller made two free throws with 3 seconds left to wrap up the victory. Josh Dilling made the second of two free throws with 8 seconds left for the Norse, forcing a second OT tied at 80. Wells hit a 3-pointer with 2:05 left and neither team scored after that, forcing the third OT tied at 86. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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California farmers are hopeful Trump administration will deliver more water to fieldsPodeli : Despite Rio Tinto’s announcement in August 2021 that a pilot plant for the chemical treatment of jadarite with sulfuric acid would be sent to Serbia within weeks, this has not happened—and, according to the company, it will not happen. The foreign company cited „a massive campaign of disinformation and public intimidation“ as the reason for reversing its decision. As evidence, Rio Tinto referenced an open letter to Serbia’s president by the organization “Ne damo Jadar” and an opinion piece on the Nova.rs website. According to Rio Tinto, the pilot plant is located at the Bundora Technology and Development Center near Melbourne, Australia. The company claims the facility was developed by domestic and international experts. „All testing of mineral processing for jadarite ore was conducted following all safety standards. Three chemical testing campaigns were carried out, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During these tests, we collaborated with 40 top international suppliers and tested 5,000 pieces of equipment. Five independent audits confirmed the process is stable, safe, and successful,“ Rio Tinto stated. However, the company did not provide data to substantiate these claims. The process involves three stages: mining, chemical processing to produce lithium carbonate, and waste disposal. Rio Tinto added that if the professional public expresses interest in learning about the technology tested at the pilot plant for the Jadar project, the company is willing to respond positively but did not clarify how this would be done.
The mystery 'UFO' drones over US airbases in Britain that have baffled witnesses: As UFO fever grips America, villagers reveals their very strange sightings in UKEXCLUSIVE The mystery 'UFO' drones over US airbases in Britain that have baffled witnesses: As UFO fever grips America, villagers reveals their very strange sightings in UK Have YOU seen these drones flying? Email jose.ramos@mailonline.co.uk By JOSE RAMOS Published: 13:40, 15 December 2024 | Updated: 13:52, 15 December 2024 e-mail 47 View comments Villagers 'can't believe what they saw' after yet another sighting of a suspected drone was spotted flying close to an American air base in Britain. MailOnline has exclusively uncovered fresh footage filmed by a resident that shows the suspected drone flying over Hockwold cum Wilton, just six miles from RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. The village sits between two Air Force bases, RAF Feltwell and RAF Lakenheath. It comes as mysterious drone activity near a US Army base in New Jersey causes a sensation in America, with the federal government proving unable to provide an explanation of what they are. Witnesses there claim the drones perfrom manuvers impossible for known technology. Reports about American nuclear weapons being deployed to the latter for the first time since the Cold War have heightened fears that Russia could be behind the drone activity. In America, experts have warned that the drone activity could be intelligence gathering by Iran or Russia. Philip Ingram, a former British military intelligence Colonel, said the recent drone sightings in the UK had 'all the hallmarks' of an operation by Russia's secretive GRU. The US Air Force admitted last month that drones had flown close to three of its UK bases – including Lakenheath, Feltwell as well as RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk. Farmworker Ricky Fletcher, 43, was leaving work on November 29 when initially he only saw one of them flying above. He told us: 'I first saw them on the farm I work at, I was leaving work at 4pm on Friday evening and saw one flying way from Feltwell low to the ground, I almost thought it was a helicopter, it was so big. Farm worker Ricky Fletcher, 43, was leaving work on November 29 when initially he only saw a drone flying above him Mr Fletcher added: 'We couldn't believe what we were seeing' 'But it wasn't. The way the lights flashed it wasn't a plane. It was definitely a drone.' However, soon after that, he claims the sky was filled with a dozen of them. 'All of a sudden we looked up and saw about 10 of them circling around. We were fascinated by them, they were just circling around, not really flying in the same direction.' He added: 'We couldn't believe what we were seeing.' 'They moved in and circled around that one there was over my village in Hockwold between Lakenheath and Feltwell.' He said he drove home, in the same village, but could still see them circling over. 'I would come out to smoke and would see them at night,' he said. This came after footage emerged of what is suspected to be four drones, brazenly flying with bright lights, in the early evening darkness above RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. While two of the drones to the left of the screen in the video appear stationary, the other two are shown moving and passing each other on the night of November 28. The bright light at the top of the screen is believed to be the planet Venus which can be seen in the south-western sky in the month of November. The planet which is the brightest in the earth's solar system is often confused with being an aircraft or rocket. The sightings which are said to have started on November 20 and continued for several days have followed similar drone 'invasions' in New Jersey . Previous footage showed the moment a swarm of drones fly over an American air base which is set to become home to US nuclear weapons While two of the drones to the left of the screen in the video appear stationary, the other two are shown moving and passing each other on the night of November 28 The bright light at the top of the screen is believed to be the planet Venus which can be seen in the south-western sky in the month of November. The planet which is the brightest in the earth's solar system is often confused with being an aircraft or rocket The village where the drones were spotted sits between two Air Force bases, RAF Feltwell and RAF Lakenheath Reports about American nuclear weapons being deployed to the base for the first time since the Cold War have heightened fears that Russia could be behind the drone activity The US Air Force admitted last month that drones had buzzed three of its UK bases – RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk and nearby RAF Feltwell, Norfolk Unknown craft are reported to have circled the US Army's Picatinny Arsenal in the state which manufactures and researches weapons including arms supplied to Ukraine. Read More EXCLUSIVE The mystery drone swarms over British bases that could be a sign of an impending Russian attack Some reports have talked of 'car-sized' drones over New Jersey since mid-November, sometimes appearing in groups and often remaining in the same place for hours at a time. They are also said to have been spotted around New York, Texas and Oklahoma. A New Jersey police department sparked concern after it revealed that a drone it sent up to track a mystery aircraft 'easily' evaded their device before disappearing into thin air . Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said a drone was launched after one of his officers saw 50 unmanned aerial vehicles, 'coming off the ocean'. The officer dialed 911 to alert state police, the FBI and the Coast Guard.The maritime agency then reported seeing spotted 13 drones following their boat, estimating that the devices had a wingspan of eight feet. Matronardy told NewsNation's Rich McHugh the force put up an 'industrial grade' drone to follow one of the devices, but it quickly slipped through their grasp. The incident is just one of many drone sightings concerning locals in the Garden State and beyond. 'If this is not our military, then it's even more scary,' McHugh said. Be the first to comment Be one of the first to comment Comments Are YOU concerned about a hostile attack? Comment now Intelligence analysts from both the US and UK have pointed the finger at interference by Russian despot Vladimir Putin. The video at RAF Lakenheath was taken shortly after British authorities had announced that 60 soldiers were being sent to investigate the sightings at the three UK bases. Two days after it was taken, an RAF Chinook apparently flew British special forces troops to join the probe at RAF Lakenheath which is home to the to the 48th Fighter Wing's F-15E Strike Eagle and F-35A Lightning II aircraft. Flight tracker records showed the Chinook leaving RAF Odiham, Hampshire, and flying to Poole, Dorset, to apparently pick up SBS troops before heading to Hereford where the SAS are based, and then on to the US base. Earlier this month, villagers near RAF Lakenheath described seeing the drones on repeated nights, along with an increase in security patrols by MoD police. The base stated this week that there had been no new sightings in recent days. A retired British spymaster yesterday claimed that Kremlin intelligence services were potentially gearing up for a fresh wave of incursions into UK airspace. Philip Ingram, a former British military intelligence Colonel, said the recent drone sightings had 'all the hallmarks' of an operation by Russia's secretive GRU spy agency. 'It's a distinct possibility if not a certain probability this is all down to Russian intelligence,' he said. ' They and the GRU are just a bunch of petulant little boys. They're trying to suggest they have the ability to disrupt and influence through a level of nuisance action.' A swarm of drones is spotted over in New Jersey, America, which has alarmed US officials Drones have been sighted at military bases in the UK and US. Pictured is one drone circling an American weapons base in New Jersey - which experts say is Russian He added: 'I would say we will see another flurry of activity in the next few months for sure. Whether drones or something else, I suspect something else.' Col Ingram said Russians or their agents could also be using the UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to test Western forces' responses and capabilities. He suggested they were potentially carrying out such operations to massage Russian tyrant Putin's bruised ego, after his failures in Ukraine. He also claimed the drones were part of a wider spate of small, 'seemingly isolated' incidents which could be part of a larger coordinated test of disruption tactics. 'There's a pattern building up and from an intelligence perspective, I don't like patterns,' Col Ingram added. 'Each one of these things in isolation won't massively disrupt our way of life and none will potentially raise a big question mark but if you suddenly put them together and they all happen at once, then the level of disruption you could have could be really serious.' The sightings follow a series of suspicious incidents worldwide, which have seen hackers carrying out cyber attacks, sabotaging underwater internet cables and bomb scares triggering chaos at Gatwick and in central London. The FBI and other agencies are said to investigating the sightings in America, but the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday: 'We have no more information as to where these drones are coming from, where they're launching from, where they're landing.' Read More EXCLUSIVE Experts reveal what mystery drones over New Jersey are... and why Americans should be terrified Britain this week unveiled its newest weapon in the war against drones - a high powered laser which is able to scorch the devices out of the sky in seconds. The high-energy device, mounted on the roof of a Wolfhound armoured vehicle, was successfully tested at the Radnor Range in mid-Wales. Soldiers from 16 Royal Artillery - an air defence regiment based near Portsmouth, Hampshire - were able to track and destroy hovering targets. Retired police lieutenant and intelligence analyst Tim McMillan told DailyMail.com the descriptions of the UFOs in Jersey 'sound exactly like Russian Orlan-10 drones' — secretive craft that fly in packs of three to five. The Orlan-10 craft comes with 'standard positional lighting' — a red light on the left (port) wingtip, a green light on the right (starboard) wingtip, and white taillights, similar to the lights seen on ordinary aircraft and Jersey's 'mystery drones.' Experts suggest that Russia could be carrying out an intelligence-gathering mission known as 'ferreting', meant to intentionally trigger and test a rival's airspace defence procedures and response times. Or the Kremlin could simply be spying on allies of Ukraine who are aiding the fight against Russia's invasion. While experts could not rule out a theory that Iran was behind the attacks, argued by NJ Congressman Jeff Van Drew, but denied by the Pentagon, White House officials have long noted that Russia and Iran collaborate on military drone development. 'Russia has been very aggressive and reckless with its responses to Western support of Ukraine,' Lt McMillan told DailyMail.com. 'This isn't something I see discussed in US media, but it's well documented and openly discussed here in Europe.' The first New Jersey drone sightings appeared over the US Army's Picatinny Arsenal on November 18, but reports to varying levels of credibility have now spread to at least 12 counties throughout the Garden State. Officials have received reports of craft flying of 'water reservoirs, electric transmission lines, rail stations, police departments, and military installations' in recent weeks, according to Florham Park, NJ police chief Joseph J Orlando. But those earliest and most credible sightings above Picatinny, according to Lt McMillan, are most worth focusing on. 'Picatinny Arsenal,' as Lt McMillan told DailyMail.com, is 'home of the US Army's CCDC Armaments Center, which is responsible for manufacturing and supplying Ukraine with 155mm artillery ammunition.' Republican Rep Jeff Van Drew has claimed that Iran is behind the drones in New Jersey, telling reporters that the nation parked a 'mothership' off the East Coast. MailOnline have approached the MoD for further comment New Jersey Iran Ukraine Russia Share or comment on this article: The mystery 'UFO' drones over US airbases in Britain that have baffled witnesses: As UFO fever grips America, villagers reveals their very strange sightings in UK e-mail Add comment
The opposition has warned Australia’s relationship with Israel is at its “lowest ebb in decades” after a controversial former Israeli minister was refused entry to Australia. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced last week that he had not granted an entry visa to Ayelet Shaked over concerns she would threaten social cohesion. The decision sparked reports the Australian ambassador to Israel had been summoned to be reprimanded by the Israeli government over the move. Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said that by having “abandoned Israel”, Australia had “walked away from our closest and most important ally in the US”. The Australian reported on Thursday that Mr Paterson said protests outside Sydney’s Great Synagogue on Wednesday during a service were a “disgrace”. He went on to tell Sky News it should be of “no surprise when you have a weak prime minister like Anthony Albanese”. He accused Mr Albanese of adopting “a position of moral equivalence when it comes to these issues who can’t condemn anti-Semitism unequivocally”. It comes after Australia broke from a two-decade stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict to vote for a United Nations resolution backing Palestinian statehood. Ms Shaked, a right-wing politician, served as minister for justice in Israel from 2015 until 2019 and was involved in the drafting of the controversial Basic Law.
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The Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana ( AB-PMJAY ) has reduced the cancer patients' financial burden significantly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. Modi highlighted the achievements made in the fight against malaria and cancer in the 117th episode of his ' Mann Ki Baat '. He said the success on this front has attracted the attention of the world today. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? India's car race: How far EVs went in 2024 Investing in 2025: Six wealth management trends to watch out for On the fight against cancer, the prime minister talked about a study by Medical Journal Lancet according to which the chances of starting cancer treatment in time in India have increased significantly. Modi also emphasised the role of the Ayushman Bharat Yojana in ensuring timely treatment of cancer patients, within 30 days. "Because of this scheme, 90 percent of cancer patients have been able to start their treatment on time. This has happened because earlier, due to lack of money, poor patients used to shy away from getting tested for cancer and its treatment. Now, the Ayushman Bharat Yojana has become a big support for them. Now they are coming forward to get themselves treated," he said. "The Ayushman Bharat Yojana has reduced the financial problems in cancer treatment to a great extent," he stated. 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"Even at the time of Independence, it was one of our biggest health challenges. Malaria ranks third among all infectious diseases that kill children between one month and five years of age. Today, I can say with satisfaction that the countrymen have collectively, strongly fought this challenge," he said in the radio broadcast. He highlighted the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) which mentions, "In India, there has been an 80 percent reduction in the number of malaria cases and deaths due to it between 2015 and 2023." Underscoring that this success has been achieved through everyone's participation, the prime minister especially mentioned the contribution of tea garden dwellers of Jorhat in Assam and the people of the Kurukshetra district of Haryana for taking the war against malaria more vigorously. "In the tea gardens of Jorhat in Assam, malaria used to be a major cause of concern for people until four years ago. 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The world stands at the dawn of a “third nuclear age” in which Britain is threatened by multiple dilemmas, the head of the armed forces has warned. But alongside his stark warning of the threats facing Britain and its allies, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said there would be only a “remote chance” Russia would directly attack or invade the UK if the two countries were at war. The Chief of the Defence Staff laid out the landscape of British defence in a wide-ranging speech, after a minister warned the Army would be wiped out in as little as six months if forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict. The admiral cast doubt on the possibility as he gave a speech at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) defence think tank in London. He told the audience Britain needed to be “clear-eyed in our assessment” of the threats it faces, adding: “That includes recognising that there is only a remote chance of a significant direct attack or invasion by Russia on the United Kingdom, and that’s the same for the whole of Nato.” Moscow “knows the response will be overwhelming”, he added, but warned the nuclear deterrent needed to be “kept strong and strengthened”. Sir Tony added: “We are at the dawn of a third nuclear age, which is altogether more complex. It is defined by multiple and concurrent dilemmas, proliferating nuclear and disruptive technologies and the almost total absence of the security architectures that went before.” The first nuclear age was the Cold War, while the second was “governed by disarmament efforts and counter proliferation”, the armed forces chief said. He listed the “wild threats of tactical nuclear use” by Russia, China building up its weapon stocks, Iran’s failure to co-operate with a nuclear deal, and North Korea’s “erratic behaviour” among the threats faced by the West. But Sir Tony said the UK’s nuclear arsenal is “the one part of our inventory of which Russia is most aware and has more impact on (President Vladimir) Putin than anything else”. Successive British governments had invested “substantial sums of money” in renewing nuclear submarines and warheads because of this, he added. The admiral described the deployment of thousands of North Korean soldiers on Ukraine’s border alongside Russian forces as the year’s “most extraordinary development”. He also signalled further deployments were possible, speaking of “tens of thousands more to follow as part of a new security pact with Russia”. Defence minister Alistair Carns earlier said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army being “expended” within six to 12 months. He said it illustrated the need to “generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis”. In comments reported by Sky News, Mr Carns, a former Royal Marines colonel, said Russia was suffering losses of around 1,500 soldiers killed or injured a day. “In a war of scale – not a limited intervention, but one similar to Ukraine – our Army for example, on the current casualty rates, would be expended – as part of a broader multinational coalition – in six months to a year,” Mr Carns said in a speech at Rusi. He added: “That doesn’t mean we need a bigger Army, but it does mean you need to generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis.” Official figures show the Army had 109,245 personnel on October 1, including 25,814 volunteer reservists. Mr Carns, the minister for veterans and people, said the UK needed to “catch up with Nato allies” to place greater emphasis on the reserves. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Defence Secretary John Healey had previously spoken about “the state of the armed forces that were inherited from the previous government”. The spokesman said: “It’s why the Budget invested billions of pounds into defence, it’s why we’re undertaking a strategic defence review to ensure that we have the capabilities and the investment needed to defend this country.”Pausha Amavasya is an important Hindu day dedicated to honouring and paying respect to the ancestors. Amavasya is the new moon day in Hindu calendar and it is a significant day as many rituals are performed only on Amavasya Tithi. Pausha Amavasya falls in the month of Pausha, which falls in December or January in the Gregorian calendar. The Pausha Amavasya in December 2024 will be on Monday, December 30, 2024. This will be the last Pausha Amavasya of the year 2024. The Amavasya tithi begins at 04:01 AM on December 30 and ends at 03:56 AM on December 31. In this article, let’s know more about Pausha Amavasya 2024 date in December and the significance of the day. Amavasya 2025 Dates and Tithi: Complete New Moon Calendar, Rituals and Other Important Details Dedicated to Ancestor Worship and Charity. Pausha Amavasya 2024 Date and Amavasya Tithi Pausha Amavasya Rituals Pausha Amavasya Significance On the day of Pausha Amavasya, devotees hold special prayers and engage in offerings at temples and pilgrimage sites. They offer prayers and food to their ancestors to seek their blessings and pray for the peace of the departed souls. Acts of charity, including donating food, clothes, and money to the needy, hold special significance on this day. It is thought to enhance one's spiritual merits (Punya). People observe fasts and offer prayers to deities, particularly Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, seeking health, wealth, and happiness. (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 30, 2024 05:50 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com ).
In November, Sen. Ted Cruz, who next month will become chair of the Senate committee overseeing aviation, told new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that if the plane-maker suffered just one more high-profile safety issue, “your company is in deep, deep trouble.” “I think he’s right,” Ortberg told Boeing employees, relaying the conversation in an all-hands webcast late last month. “We’re at a low here, folks.” Boeing has endured more than five years of tragedies, mistakes and setbacks: the deadly 737 Max crashes that left the Max fleet grounded for nearly two years; the prolonged stoppage of 787 deliveries due to quality problems; the steep COVID-19 downturn; the midair blowout of a door-sized panel on an Alaska Airlines flight in January; the 53-day Machinist union strike. With jet production now constrained by regulators and Boeing bleeding more than $4 billion in cash every three months, the scale of the challenge Ortberg faces is daunting. Recruitment of engineering talent to the ailing aerospace giant is hampered by competition from innovative air taxi and space startups. Layoffs, draining morale, have spurred some top employees to seek jobs elsewhere. And new obstacles loom next year. Ortberg must close the $8 billion acquisition of troubled supplier Spirit AeroSystems and smoothly reintegrate that Wichita, Kansas, operation two decades after Boeing sold it off. And a conversation with President-elect Donald Trump last month told Ortberg to expect a negative impact on Boeing from tariffs in 2025. One eminent business leadership guru believes Ortberg has “the hardest job in American business right now.” Yet Ortberg also has “the biggest opportunity,” said Gautam Mukunda, a lecturer at the Yale School of Management. “Because the man who saves Boeing is going to be a legend of American business.” There was no big CEO smile or swagger as Ortberg addressed the dire situation during the Nov. 20 internal all-hands presentation, delivered to a small in-person group at the Boeing Field jet delivery center and webcast companywide. Dressed in a dark Boeing fleece and khakis, Ortberg offered somber realism as he urged everyone in the company to pull together to lift Boeing out of the pit it’s in. If that can be done, he offered hope that Boeing could come “racing out of this.” “Our mission is awesome. The product portfolio we have is wonderful. The demand for our products is great,” he told the audience. “We can turn this around, folks,” Ortberg said. “We can get back to where they’re writing stories about, ‘Wow, look at the Boeing company, and how they’re back to leading aerospace and defense.’ “ But first, he outlined some harsh medicine just ahead: Layoffs, cost cuts, divestments, and a long, slow slog to change Boeing’s culture and restore its tarnished reputation. Changing the culture As he’s done repeatedly since he became CEO in August, Ortberg in his presentation, viewed by The Seattle Times, evoked the “Working Together” motto that former Commercial Airplanes CEO Alan Mulally championed in the 1990s during development of Boeing’s successful 777 jet. That was leadership that explicitly integrated input from all stakeholders: engineers, factory workers, parts suppliers and airline customers. Employees who spoke with The Seattle Times about Ortberg’s speech welcomed this principle and were generally optimistic that he can lead Boeing out of its current crisis. However, one engineer and a veteran staffer in the Commercial Airplanes Quality organization, both of whom asked not to be named to protect their positions, expressed disappointment that while Ortberg spoke of culture change he asked that employees move past the strategic errors that have brought Boeing down. “Don’t sit at the water cooler and bitch,” Ortberg told his audience. “I can’t imagine how much time we’re spending complaining about what McDonnell Douglas did, what Jim McNerney did, what Dennis (Muilenburg) did.” But overturning what those and other former CEOs wrought since the McDonnell Douglas acquisition 27 years ago — the extreme focus on the share price, the crushing of unions, the squeezing of suppliers, the cost-cutting, the outsourcing of work and treating longtime employees as dispensable — is what many see as the essential culture change. The quality staffer said he’d have liked Ortberg to first repudiate those past mistakes. Management professor Mukunda — who described former CEO McNerney, the prime architect of Boeing strategy over the past 20 years, as “arguably the worst CEO in American history” — said going back to Mulally’s pre-McDonnell Douglas “Working Together” culture is exactly what’s needed. “The intellectual tides of management that used to idolize the GE-style approach that (Harry) Stonecipher and McNerney and (Dave) Calhoun embodied, those tides have turned,” Mukunda said. “That was a disastrous path that the whole country walked down together.” Still, Ortberg said he wants to get rid of the negativity and firmly focus on the future. “Everybody is just tired of the drum beat of what’s wrong with Boeing? Right?” he told employees. “I’m tired of it.” Ortberg said since arriving he’s found too much “internal fighting” and “a blaming culture” at Boeing that tolerates coarse talk and “nasty emails” between employees. From the outside, this gives Boeing “an aura of a horrible culture,” he added. “We spend more time arguing within ourselves than we do thinking about Airbus,” Ortberg said. “There’s a lot of distrust between the people who are doing the work and the people who are managing,” he added. “We’ve got to get much, much more focused on working together.” A rough start: Cost-cutting and layoffs Clearly, Ortberg’s recent decision to impose drastic travel and spending cuts and to cut 10% of the workforce is a rough start for a plan hoping to restore employee confidence and morale. The cost-cutting meant Boeing personnel couldn’t attend an aviation industry conference in Istanbul in September, where a planned debate on stage between Airbus and Boeing executives turned into a solely Airbus presentation. And at the aviation industry’s Wings Club black-tie awards gala in New York in October, airline customers and aviation consultants took their seats at Boeing-sponsored tables — but without their Boeing hosts. Nonessential executive travel had been nixed. More significant spending cuts have even been applied to research and development projects. “You may see some R&D projects that we pause or delay,” Ortberg said. “There are a few that we just decided no longer made sense to do.” As for the plan to cut about 17,000 jobs through layoffs and attrition, Ortberg told employees that’s necessary because Boeing isn’t producing planes at the rates planned, due to the FAA restrictions imposed after the Jan. 5 blowout on an Alaska flight. “We continued to staff to a plan that we didn’t achieve, and it no longer reflects our current forecast,” he said. “We’ve got too many employees for the amount of business that we have.” While some engineers were laid off, most of those cut are not directly working on designing and building planes. One target, Ortberg said, is to cut layers of middle management and give leaders a closer connection to the people working on the factory floor. “There’s too much management. There’s too much overhead. It’s too hard to get anything done,” Ortberg said. “There’s too many cooks in the kitchen.” The initial layoff notices went out last month and a second round will be delivered this month, with the designated employees terminated in January and February. Naturally, this has caused some to begin looking elsewhere. “People are scared,” said Adam Pilarski, an industry analyst with consulting firm Avitas. He’s received résumés from 20-year veterans at Boeing, including high-level directors. Stabilizing and streamlining operations Ortberg had barely begun his tenure as the new CEO of Boeing when he faced two urgent crises: the dire shortage of capital due to the cash outflow each quarter and then the Machinists union strike that stopped jet production for nearly two months. Pilarski said Ortberg’s immediate concern was “how do we survive?” Boeing promptly raised more than $21 billion by selling stock and finally ended the strike with a wage hike that compounds to a roughly 43% raise over four years. In the webcast, Ortberg laid out the next stages of his plan for recovery: Ortberg’s most immediate target is to get the 737 Max production rate up to 38 jets per month, the current cap imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure manufacturing quality. Ortberg stressed the urgency of raising jet deliveries to stanch Boeing’s cash outflow, which he projected will be “nearly $4.5 billion” for the final three months of this year. “We don’t have a lot of time to get our act together,” he said. Still, the manufacturing surge must be done slowly to prevent further serious quality lapses of the sort Cruz warned about. Ortberg said Boeing will use its new safety management system “as our bible” to ratchet up production safely. Possibly slowing that effort, the complex job of taking over Spirit — which makes fuselages and other major parts for Boeing jets — can begin only when that deal closes around mid-2025. And the incoming Trump administration may complicate Boeing’s relationship with China, one of the world’s largest commercial airplane markets. Ortberg told employees he’d spoken with Trump on Nov. 15 to talk about tariffs, emphasizing that “Boeing airplanes are built in the United States of America, exported throughout the world. “We’re the No. 1 exporter in the country, and there’s no import of Chinese airplanes into the United States,” Ortberg said he told Trump. The conversation left Ortberg convinced that “we’re going to see some tariffing that, in my opinion, is probably going to be detrimental to us.” Retaliatory tariffs could delay deliveries to China and blow up Boeing’s plan to clear out the more than 50 completed 737 Maxes built for Chinese airlines and parked since 2019. “We’re just going to have to work through it,” Ortberg told the employees. What is core to Boeing? Ortberg said he’s examining the entire Boeing enterprise to see what units might be sold off to raise cash and restore focus on what is central to Boeing. “We need to streamline,” Ortberg told the employees, and to divest “the things that really don’t fit in our future.” “We’re much better off doing less and doing it much, much better,” he said. Mukunda said Boeing is likely to emerge from Ortberg’s restructuring “a slimmed-down company” focused more sharply on building commercial jets and defense platforms. Leaks from bankers have revealed Boeing is exploring selling for as much as $6 billion its Englewood, Colorado-based Jeppesen unit, which provides electronic air navigation services. A sale of the United Launch Alliance, a space rocket joint venture with Lockheed Martin, is reported to be near closing. Analyst Scott Mikus of Melius Research said another potential candidate for sale could be Boeing’s El Segundo, California-based small satellite unit, Millennium Space Systems. Boeing’s aircraft parts distribution business and its helicopter manufacturing unit in Philadelphia are also healthy enough to attract buyers if Ortberg chooses. Boeing is reviewing what to do with the Starliner space capsule program, a failure of which left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station until next year. It will be tough to find a buyer for Starliner, which seems to have little prospect of making money. And as SpaceX dominates the launch market, the future of the Space Launch System giant rocket Boeing is developing for NASA is in serious doubt — especially now that SpaceX owner Elon Musk has been assigned the job of cutting government spending for the Trump administration. A former senior executive at Boeing, speaking on condition of anonymity to maintain relations with current management, lamented that “Boeing used to own human spaceflight and now we’re having a very difficult time even staying in it because of the performance.” “If they don’t think they can make money in space, they ought to shut it down,” he said. Boeing has also for years been bleeding money from a series of fixed-price military contracts, which it won by bidding too low. It has no option but to try to complete those contracts and put the massive write-offs behind it. Byron Callan, a defense analyst with Capital Alpha Partners, says Boeing might want to divest some peripheral military programs, such as the Harpoon and JDAM munitions units. However, he said the aerospace giant must stay in the market for next generation military aircraft to keep close to advanced developments in core technologies that flow between commercial and defense projects. “There are parts of the defense portfolio that you could argue should remain part of an aerospace company,” Callan said. “If I were Boeing, I’d want to have a foot that market.” A new airplane for the future One certainty is that building commercial airliners will remain Boeing’s center. “If they don’t think they can make money in space, they ought to shut it down,” he said. Boeing has also for years been bleeding money from a series of fixed-price military contracts, which it won by bidding too low. It has no option but to try to complete those contracts and put the massive write-offs behind it. Byron Callan, a defense analyst with Capital Alpha Partners, says Boeing might want to divest some peripheral military programs, such as the Harpoon and JDAM munitions units. However, he said the aerospace giant must stay in the market for next generation military aircraft to keep close to advanced developments in core technologies that flow between commercial and defense projects. “There are parts of the defense portfolio that you could argue should remain part of an aerospace company,” Callan said. “If I were Boeing, I’d want to have a foot that market.” If successfully launched, Boeing’s next new jet should restore the Pacific Northwest’s waning status as one of the world’s great airplane manufacturing centers. Before the grounding of the Max in 2019, Boeing’s Puget Sound area factories produced 66 big commercial jets a month. At current rates, those same factories are producing about 30. Yet Richard Aboulafia, longtime industry expert with AeroDynamic Advisory, worries that Boeing, which saw a brain drain in recent years as veteran employees exited, could soon lose more of the remaining engineering talent it needs to design and build that next plane. “The more competitive people have every incentive to consider leaving,” he wrote last month. And with many exciting aerospace jobs open elsewhere for top talent, he said, those people won’t be coming back. “I’m starting to wonder if the odds are now against Boeing coming back, too,” Aboulafia wrote in a November newsletter. To attract and retain talent, and to attain the “working together” goal, Mikus of Melius Research said Boeing should revamp its compensation structure, perhaps providing stock options even to rank-and-file employees. Employees need “to feel not only do they have a future in Seattle but that they get to share in the financial benefit of the recovery,” he said. Ortberg, concluding his internal pep talk to employees, asked for faith in the future and a focus on the immediate steps ahead. “Let’s get on to next year where the Boeing company is on the ramp back up,” Ortberg said. “It’s going to take all of us.”