
Boeing [BA] continues to grapple with challenges in troubled government programs it won bidding on fixed-price development contracts and while there is no simple fix progress is being made and performance should improve this year, Kelly Ortberg, the company’s president and CEO, said on Tuesday. Boeing’s fourth quarter financial results included $1.7 billion in pre-tax charges on five programs in the company’s defense segment that it disclosed last week (Defense Daily, Jan. 23). Ortberg told investors he has done his…