Frank LoBiondo: “we have to do better here in Congress, and I hope today's hearing will give us a solid path for how we should progress…”

We are talking about doubling the amount of safety in the light end of general aviation and reducing the cost by half.

Given the importance of this region to U.S. interests I would think we would want to maintain the best possible intelligence collection capabilities in the theater.

I would oppose any effort to impose new aircraft noise restrictions that may undermine our national aviation and airport system.

If the Global Hawk is not currently capable of fulfilling the requirements leveed on the U-2, is there a plan that can bring it up to capability?