"Much of the detailed design" will be carried out by Boeing engineering teams in Charleston, South Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; Long Beach, California ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and St. Louis, Missouri, the company told employees in an internal memo seen by AFP. Boeing's design center in Moscow, Russia, will contribute to the design, it said. "Our goal is to leverage skills from across the Boeing enterprise. A program of this size requires that we bring together all of the talent that Boeing has to offer," said the memo, signed by Michael Delaney, vice president of engineering, and Scott Fancher, vice president of airplane development. The executives said that Boeing was "leveraging lessons learned" on the 787 and 747-8 programs to ensure continuity across the 777X program. "The announced structure will allow for an efficient use of resources and enable Boeing to resolve design issues effectively the first time."