Boeing's 25-Year Abandonment of Auditing Leaves Global Certificates Invalid

Forty-year quality expert and Boeing shareholder Daryl Guberman laid out a 25-year timeline of how Boeing abandoned auditing, and the FAA looked away. The story began in September 2001, eight days after 9/11, when Boeing announced it would lay off 20,000 to 30,000 employees. This marked the beginning of the 'hollowing-out' process, as the people who knew how to build airplanes right started leaving and never returned.

Boeing, along with Lockheed and Airbus, concocted ICOP (Industry Controlled Other Party), a workaround for the FAA that was an industry-run oversight scheme disguised as independent control. Boeing issued supplier bulletins requiring NADCAP certification through PRI for heat treat, welding, and other flight-critical special processes. However, in its own July 2002 Bulletin BQMS Survey Requirements, Boeing wrote down its preference to stop showing up for on-site quality system surveys.

The FAA upgraded Boeing to ODA status (Organization Designation Authorization) in 2009, allowing Boeing to self-certify its own airplanes. This meant that Boeing employees became FAA inspectors, paid by Boeing, giving the CEO significant control over what reached the FAA. In 2012, a Boeing man sat on ANAB's Management Systems Accreditation Committee and as chairman of the IAQG, writing about the importance of vigilance over unaccredited certificates.

The detonator was the September 4, 2018 Department of State contract 19AQMM18R0131, which listed ANAB as an 'underwriter.' Guberman says no accreditation body may legally hold that role under ISO/IEC 17011. From 2018 on, he claims Boeing pushed a fraudulent accreditation body through its supplier portal.

Guberman alleges that this wasn't just aerospace - it's every industry worldwide, with medical devices, automotive parts, electronics, industrial equipment, food, and pharma affected. He says the paper was dead since September 4, 2018, and the chain of custody is broken. Nobody can prove what was actually done to the metal because the audits attesting to it rest on an accreditation he calls void.