19 Quotes by Dan Beck

We're willing to make adjustments, but those adjustments would have to be within the value package of our offer.

We'll need to see what will be involved in getting hardware back in flow and to begin processing launch vehicles for their missions.

We just want to be sure that we're in a position, whether it's Boeing ( BA ) or ULA, to meet their launch requirements. We want to be sure they are there and ready to go when they need the capability.

We're very pleased that the agreements were ratified and we look forward to those employees returning to work. It comes a day before it would have been three months.

Boeing is still committed to the United Launch Alliance as the right path for lower cost, reliable assured access to space. We have provided the government with the information they need to complete their review of this complex transaction, and we are awaiting final government approvals.

Boeing has not heard anything one way or the other, and we were not part of the meeting.

It's a shift in the way we go about doing our business. We've gone from seven customer-facing organizations, whether it's Air Force systems, Navy systems, whatever, to a more capabilities-focused organization where you're bringing together ... all of those programs that would create the opportunities for us to improve performance, improve our cost structure and respond to the transforming needs of those customers.

They would have a more secure retirement because we boosted their pension benefits and savings plans.

In this time of defense budgets being what they are, there certainly is a mandate from the Pentagon to bring down costs to be competitive to meet their needs.