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Obama Taps Boeing Exec To Advise Export Promotion Effort

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Friday, March 12th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic President Barack Obama yesterday named Boeing [BA] CEO James McNerney to lead a U.S. export-promotion panel, just days after the Pentagon's latest attempt for a transatlantic industry partnership to develop a weapons systems fell flat. In a speech to the Export-Import Bank conference, Obama outlined steps his administration will take to promote U.S. exports and overhaul what officials have said is an outdated export-control system. Obama has re-established the President's Export Council, a presidential advisory committee on…

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