Boeing announced internally on January 10, 2017, a new round of employee buyouts for engineers companywide, and warned that layoff notices will follow later this month for engineers in Washington state. Management did not disclose a target for the number of projected job cuts. John Hamilton, BCA vice president of engineering, sent a memo on the job cuts shortly after noon on January 10, 2017, to all BCA engineering employees, managers and executives. Hamilton's memo states that details of a buyout offer will be sent to engineering employees in eligible skill classifications. The last workday for those who accept the buyout will be April 21. The engineering buyout package will be offered to employees in Washington State, Southern California and South Carolina. Hamilton's message also said 60-day involuntary layoff notices - affecting only engineering employees in Washington - will be sent out January 20, with layoffs effective March 24. The company said that those layoffs will involve employees in the skill classifications that were offered a buyout package last year. This year's buyout offer is going out mostly to employees in different skill classifications. There will be further involuntary layoffs if not enough people accept the offer and it falls short of Boeing's cost-saving target. The company said that there will be two additional rounds of buyouts and layoffs in engineering later in the year 2017. Boeing said that the workforce reductions will be achieved where possible through attrition and voluntary buyouts before involuntary layoffs.