Byron Dorgan actually said...

I look forward to working with the FAA, the Air National Guard, and our political leadership to enable RPA operations now and into the futur...

I am not diminishing the difficulty, because this has to be something we do nationally.

The University of North Dakota Center for Aerospace Science is designated by law and in the DOD descriptions as the center for UAV research.

not enough progress has been made, and the question is, how will more progress be made in the future