Joyce joins Boeing board, Giambastiani to retire

Boeing announced this week David Joyce has been elected to the company's board of directors, while former Navy Adm. Edmund Giambastiani will retire from the board at the end of 2021.

Joyce retired from General Electric as vice chair in 2020, where he also served as president and CEO of GE Aviation from 2008 to 2020, according to a Boeing statement. He worked at GE for more than 40 years.

Giambastiani joined the board in 2009 after retiring from the Navy as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 2019, he was appointed to serve as the chair of the board's committee on airplane policies and procedures, which was formed to review Boeing's company-wide policies and processes for airplane design and development.

"After an intensive five-month review, the committee recommended several actions that have been implemented to strengthen Boeing's safety practices and culture, including: creating a permanent Aerospace Safety Committee, which Admiral Giambastiani has chaired since its inception; establishing a Product and Services Safety Organization reporting to senior company leadership and the Aerospace Safety Committee; realigning Engineering teams into a unified organization under the Chief Engineer to further strengthen the Company's engineering function; establishing a formal Design Requirements program; enhancing the company's Continued Operation Safety Program; re-examining flight deck design and operation assumptions; and expanding the role and reach of the company's Safety Promotion Center," the statement reads.