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AIA Year-End Review & Forecast. December 13, 2006. Aerospace Industry Sales. Aerospace Industry Sales. Orders, Shipments, and Backlog. Aerospace Profits & Profit Margins. Aerospace Foreign Trade. Aerospace Employment. Where We Are Today.
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AIA Year-End Review & Forecast December 13, 2006
Where We Are Today • Highest aerospace sales in history fueled by civil boom • Profits low but better than past years • Highly skilled but aging workforce, growing since 2003 • Best R&D program for defense in the world • A collapse of federal R&D for the civil sector • Under-funded space program • High degree of uncertainty regarding defense needs
Looking Forward to 2007 & Beyond • More questions… • How long will the civil aviation boom last? • What about civil military integration? • How will the changed political landscape affect aerospace priorities? • What will emerge as the post-Iraq national security strategy? • More preemption • Modified deterrence • Containment • Neo-isolationism • How will WTO case be resolved? • Will space and aeronautics continue to be under-funded? • How will homeland security evolve? • Will any of the above be issues in the 2008 election?
Issues to Focus on in 2007 • Ethics, ethics, ethics at home and abroad • Air traffic system modernization – NextGen • International competitiveness • Export control modernization • Level playing field • Buy American • DoD budget priorities • Service funding • Modernization • Global War on Terror • Space programs • NASA funding • Aeronautics • Shuttle fly out • The Vision • Post Iraq national security strategy • New Secretary of Defense • New Congress