James F. Albaugh (born May 31, 1950) is Executive Vice President of The Boeing Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes designs, assembles, markets and sells large commercial jet aircraft and provides product-related maintenance and training to customers worldwide...

 business unit. He was appointed to lead Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes designs, assembles, markets and sells large commercial jet aircraft and provides product-related maintenance and training to customers worldwide...

 on September 1, 2009. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems

Integrated Defense Systems

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 business unit. In that capacity, Albaugh was responsible for over 70,000 employees and supervised a $30.8 billion budget. Jim Albaugh is one of the defense industry's best paid managers ($1,499,923 in 2005).

Jim Albaugh graduated from Richland High School in Richland, Washington

Richland, Washington

Richland is a city in Benton County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Washington, at the confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia Rivers. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 48,058. April 1, 2011 estimates from the Washington State Office of Financial Management put the...

 in 1968. He received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics from Willamette University

Willamette University

Willamette University is an American private institution of higher learning located in Salem, Oregon. Founded in 1842, it is the oldest university in the Western United States. Willamette is a member of the Annapolis Group of colleges, and is made up of an undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and...

 and a master's in civil engineering

Civil engineering

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 from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. His first assignment at Boeing was at their Richland, Washington

Richland, Washington

Richland is a city in Benton County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Washington, at the confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia Rivers. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 48,058. April 1, 2011 estimates from the Washington State Office of Financial Management put the...

 operations in 1975. http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/execprofiles/albaugh.html

By 2005, Albaugh addresses at conferences and in lectures the depreciating science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) brain trust of the United States in contrast to the international community. He coined this phenomenon of the United States losing its competitive edge as Intellectual Disarmament

Reverse brain drain

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Albaugh is a recipient of the Howard Hughes Memorial Award

Howard Hughes Memorial Award

The Howard Hughes Memorial Award is an aviation industry award presented annually by the Aero Club of Southern California. According to the Association's official website, the award is given "to an aerospace leader whose accomplishments over a long career have contributed significantly to the...

 from the Southern California Aeronautic Association given "to an aerospace leader whose accomplishments over a long career have contributed significantly to the advancement of aviation or space technology." http://www.aeroclubsocal.org/scaahowardhughes.html#