Allen C. Haggerty Vice President/General Manager Engineering Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group (retired), The Boeing Company Al Haggerty was vice president and general manager of Engineering for Boeing Military Aircraft and Missile System until March 31 st , 2001. He was also the Executive Focal Point for the Lean Enterprise for the unit. Prior to this assignment, he was vice president of Engineering for Douglas Aircraft Co., the commercial aircraft business unit of McDonnell Douglas. Haggerty joined McDonnell Douglas in 1981 as senior vice president of operations for McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company and in 1986 he was named executive vice president for Engineering and Operations. He is a former Naval Officer and chief engineer of a U.S. Navy destroyer. He was with Boeing Helicopters for 19 years where he served as director of Operations for Heavy Lift Helicopters; director of Operations for the CH-47 Modernization Program; and director of Commercial Helicopters, responsible for the development and production of the 44-passenger Boeing 234 Chinook commercial helicopter designed for North Sea Oil Rig Support. Haggerty has a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Program for Management Development. Haggerty is the 1998 recipient of the S.A.E. Clarence "Kelley" Johnson Aerospace Design and Development Award and was awarded the Aviation Week and Space Technology Year 2000 “Laurels Award” for Outstanding Contributions to Aeronautics and Propulsion. In 2001, Haggerty was recognized as an Honorary Senior Technical Fellow of the Boeing Company. He participates on the Board of Counselors to the School of Engineering for the University of Southern California; the Engineering Advisory Board of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; the Advisory Board of the School of Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla; and the Chancellor’s Advisory Board, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Haggerty was a member of the Executive Board of the U.S. Air Force/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lean Aerospace Initiative, a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. During the September, 2001- May, 2002 academic year, Haggerty was the Jerome Hunsaker Visiting Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and currently continues to serve as a Senior Lecturer at MIT.