{"id":1215186,"date":"2025-02-07T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215186"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T22:07:39","slug":"boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215186","title":{"rendered":"Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, with less than an hour&#8217;s notice, David Dutcher, Boeing&#8217;s vice president and program manager for the SLS rocket, scheduled an all-hands meeting for the approximately 800 employees working on the program. The apparently scripted meeting lasted just six minutes, and Dutcher didn&#8217;t take questions.<\/p>\n<p>During his remarks, Dutcher said Boeing&#8217;s contracts for the rocket could end in March and that the company was preparing for layoffs in case the contracts with the space agency were not renewed. &#8220;Cold and scripted&#8221; is how one person described Dutcher&#8217;s demeanor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program. On Friday, with less than an hour&#8217;s notice, David Dutcher, Boeing&#8217;s vice president and program manager for the SLS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}