McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to consolidate its Government-aerospace research-and-development operations into a single organisation, Advanced Systems and Technology - Phantom Works, employing 3,000 people at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace in Missouri and California, and McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems in Arizona.
The workforce will be cut by about 10%. San Diego-based McDonnell Douglas Technologies (MDTI) will be closed, as will the Long Beach-based Advanced Transport Aircraft Development (ATAD) organisation.
The consolidation extends the influence of the St Louis-based Phantom Works. The new organisation will be headed by MDC chief scientist James Sinnett, with David Swain as Phantom Works general manager.
MDTI's functions will be transferred to Mesa, Arizona. ATAD's technology work will be moved to the Phantom Works and its tanker/transport projects absorbed by MDC's C-17 programme at Long Beach.
Source: Flight International
