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@a4 I truly hope the job is cool. I have this idea that I'll jump companies and they're chill.
Kube has been CEO for 5+ years now. He’s done his accountant’s duty of cutting costs to the board’s satisfaction.
We are heading into a new climate where customers demand innovation and time to market. Time to bring in a business school educated engineer as next CEO..
But the stock is finally getting some action. $1B in stock buybacks is the real way to say we invest in OUR people. Shareholders not employees.
@a4 just where I’m looking to continue my career
Makes me happy to have not taken the job with them but to go down the street another mile and work for Northrop Grumman. Sunseting my career there.
It does seem to have become that, which is unfortunate. Don’t think it really needed to be this way but we have no direction and haven’t in so long.
The reorg feels like Marie Kondo-ing the company into what can be sold, closed, and spun out. Everything being stove piped going forward makes it easy to close or sell pieces or programs.
I doubt there’s a long future for what will remain after the Missile Solutions IPO. The current climate doesn’t sound ripe for acquisitions, and Kube’s late night comms about that last EO makes it clear he’s only concerned with his pay and not any real principles or leadership.