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This is a 6-page paper that discusses the issue of conflict of interest with regard to Boeing Corporation and their former employee Darleen Druyun. The corporation is now under investigation and Druyun is in jail because of the favoritism she showed to Boeing when she was an Air Force procurement officer. She favored Boeing because she hoped to be employed there after she left government service; thus her actions are an example of the kind of problems conflicts of interest can create. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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or suspect. Conflict of interest applies in every field of human endeavor, and we are entitled to ask whether someone is impartial when they have a decided interest one
way or the other in the outcome of an event. In the case of Darleen Druyun and Boeing Corporation, however, it
seems that no one even attempted to avoid conflict of interest issues. Druyun blatantly awarded contracts to Boeing to insure that she would be hired by the defense contractor
when she left government service. It was a classic "you scratch my back, Ill scratch yours" situation in which she compromised her integrity (and cost taxpayers millions of dollars)
by inflating the monetary awards to Boeing, and by slanting her findings so that Boeing appeared to be the only "reasonable" contractor the Air Force could select to receive its
contracts. Background on Boeing The name "Boeing" is familiar to most people because of the success and safety record of its commercial aircraft. It was a Boeing airplane-the
707-that moved air travel into the jet age. Its 747 jumbo jet may be the best-known airplane ever built. The Boeing Company, which has corporate offices in Chicago, Illinois,
is the #2 maker of commercial jets in the world and the second largest defense contractor, falling just short of Lockheed Martins numbers (Hoovers). Boeings operations are comprised of
two separate segments, commercial airplane production (including research and development) and Integrated Defense Systems (Hoovers). "Boeings commercial aircraft include the 787 Dreamliner (due in 2008), 767, 747, and the
737; military aircraft include the F/A-18 Hornet, the F-15 Eagle, the C-17 Globemaster III transport, and the AH-64D Apache helicopter" (Hoovers). Further, Boeing has developed some substaintial space operations,
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