Allen C. Haggerty
Vice President/General Manager Engineering
Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group (retired),
The Boeing Company
Al Haggerty was vice president and general manager of Engineering for Boeing Military
Aircraft and Missile System until March 31st, 2001. He was also the Executive Focal Point for the
Lean Enterprise for the unit. Prior to this assignment, he was vice president of Engineering for
Douglas Aircraft Co., the commercial aircraft business unit of McDonnell Douglas.
Haggerty joined McDonnell Douglas in 1981 as senior vice president of operations for
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company and in 1986 he was named executive vice president for
Engineering and Operations.
He is a former Naval Officer and chief engineer of a U.S. Navy destroyer. He was with
Boeing Helicopters for 19 years where he served as director of Operations for Heavy Lift
Helicopters; director of Operations for the CH-47 Modernization Program; and director of
Commercial Helicopters, responsible for the development and production of the 44-passenger
Boeing 234 Chinook commercial helicopter designed for North Sea Oil Rig Support.
Haggerty has a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University
and a master’s degree in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also is a
graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Program for Management Development.
Haggerty is the 1998 recipient of the S.A.E. Clarence "Kelley" Johnson Aerospace Design and
Development Award and was awarded the Aviation Week and Space Technology Year 2000
“Laurels Award” for Outstanding Contributions to Aeronautics and Propulsion. In 2001,
Haggerty was recognized as an Honorary Senior Technical Fellow of the Boeing Company.
He participates on the Board of Counselors to the School of Engineering for the
University of Southern California; the Engineering Advisory Board of Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University; the Advisory Board of the School of Engineering, University of
Missouri-Rolla; and the Chancellor’s Advisory Board, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Haggerty was a member of the Executive Board of the U.S. Air Force/Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Lean Aerospace Initiative, a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement
of Engineering, a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and a member of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. During the September, 2001- May, 2002
academic year, Haggerty was the Jerome Hunsaker Visiting Professor in the Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and currently continues to serve as a Senior Lecturer at
MIT.