Bell is an excellent company and its success comes out of actually doing the detailed work on schedule and on budget.

Focus on the issues and honest communication.

Forward looking plan that provides for long-term employment.

Fair benefits package overall comparable with other companies.

Relationships are extremely important and these are built on mutual respect.

It's a driven culture with genuine experts on the team. Makes you strive to be at your best.

Short Term Incentive Compensation (STIC) is very much appreciated as it's a function of how well your efforts manifest themselves in company level success.

Succeeding over time including the FLRAA win and seeing FARA grow from 75 sheets of paper submitted to first ground run later this year.

The culture is what I would like it to be. It's always daunting overall as you can't fake growing and maintaining a solid culture. We're mutually supportive while not being afraid to good-naturedly hassle each other.

This is currently under assault a bit but we were previously very well focused on developing people. I always liked the phrase in the military that said "people first - mission always". It's a great way to build a positive culture.

We're still transitioning to a new structure overall but in general the leadership team has carried forward the path that Mr. Snyder put Bell on. I respect my entire management chain all the way to Mr. Donnelly in Textron. This is not a norm in my 33 years in my working life (not taken for granted).