Hello, I am Enrique (Rick) Sampson, DM and serve as the director of procurement and live in O Fallon, MO (outside of St. Louis). I am interested in conducting research on the health of the US aerospace industry, procurement best practices, and leadership roles of this most challenging industry. My dissertation topic focused outsourcing within aerospace manufacturing enterprises: a phenomenological study and outsourcing leadership model.
Now that our US presidential election is over and our country decided to reelect president Obama, there are many challenges facing the US aerospace industry. There are 47 states that depend on the aerospace industry for high technology jobs and there is a need today for engineers and skilled technicians to fill the positions in the coming years. With the threat of sequestration, anticipated to take hold in 1st qtr of 2013 and the instability of our political climate may force the US Aerospace Industry to take drastic mitigated actions to reduce their labor force in anticipation of cuts in US government defense programs. The action for elected politicians, the pentagon, and the US aerospace Industry will be to find common ground where cuts could be made to existing defense systems to reduce the continued growth of defense spending while providing the war fighter the latest and most advanced technology to fight the wars of the future. The US needs to stop building legacy defense systems that is antiquated and is not the best value to the US tax payer.
