But, the one thing that seems to me to stand out with respect to the FAA is that generally it's very, very hard to meet time deadlines.
And integrating it into airspace control?
the, you talk about a third of the airplanes being ordered are UAVs, I mean, we understand that, you know, 20 years from now, we'll look in ...
I don't have a good, regulatory mechanism to confiscate or segregate airspace just by kind of imminent domain.
This is a formal hearing of the Commerce Committee of the U.S. Senate.
Grand Forks and this region of North Dakota is slated to become a major UAV center.
I would not have had a hearing had I felt that we were on track
I must first express my personal thanks and that of both my Air Force Secretary Donnelly and Chief Schwartz, to you and your staffs for your...
I am grateful for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss an issue of true National Security.
This really is an excellent location for perfecting and developing the rules and procedures necessary to allow unmanned aircraft to operate ...
So, let me interpret what you--are you worried that we may not meet that test?
Tell us, if you would, what, specifically do you need at this point?
are we moving along to accomplish what needs to be done by the time it needs to be done?
But, what I have heard the military say is that short of restricted or segregated airspace, the kinds of things you have done to accommodate...
But it is different than what the staff of our Subcommittee was told a month ago.
I'm especially interested in finding out that we're not stuck up here, trying to figure out...
I am not diminishing the difficulty, because this has to be something we do nationally.
I think we will run into a problem. And a problem that should not exist, because we see it ahead of us, let's fix it before we get there.
