EADS and program execution

A clipping from Aviation Week:

… EADS’s repeated failure to meet its schedule commitments is starting to give the company a bad name. … A review of EADS big-ticket programs tells the story. The Tiger reconnaissance and attack helicopter was handed over more than two years late; the NH90 multi-role helicopter, on which EADS is a major player, has been similarly behind schedule. Now, the A400M airlifter (left), also being driven largely by EADS, will be at least six months late and the company warns a further six-month delay is possible .. [Read the full story]