Feel burdened with expensive effort of implementing changes that wont yield direct benefits for many years to come. This situation has led policymakers to question whether the current atc structure is best suited for the task at hand the longstanding difficulties of modernization on one reason to consider reform to the systems reliance on annual transportation appropriations and the vagaries of the political process make longterm planning for system capitalization management of the footprint difficult and probably more costly and the faa will always face challenges attracting and retaining the talent needed to drive major technological change when i must compete with cuttingedge businesses in the private sector. To address the challenges we must consider if theres a better way to deliver atc services for the traveling public and airspace users and im open to considering all ideas. Faa is a great record of safety regulators something that regulators something though continuous air Traff
That is the accounting that the faa has in the current budget. As much as we wish it would the budget picture will not change we will see more and more spending restraint with the impact of sequestration and layoffs with onagain and offagain stock in star funding from continuing resolutions. That is what the faa is confronted with nobody could or would bill the major new Technology Projects with those types of challenges. Here is the headline from last week and though it causes heart ache but commack the faa is not delivered as promised. The first of the modernization that is why change is needed the consensus of the stakeholders was we need to restructure to a Government Corporation for a Nonprofit Organization that has Stable Funding and the ability to control and finance the march to modernization we have now reached the Tipping Point i am not the typical spokesperson to come to the table to suggest that is the case i would weigh in to have the agency do it there will not be Stable
The use of video in a drug prosecution where the video failed for a short period of time and a the defense was the critical and exculpatory for the defendant, when the video failed to create reasonable doubt because of the malfunction. We are not done with this topic for a camera is to be worn by police to ask all of you could you point us in the direction in the of programs that are working and working well to have models for what should be done of the other states if you know, of any . Working with several agencies doing things right the policies may differ they are thought fall about what theyre doing oakland is one of the initial adopters they have had them since 2010 working with Daytona Beach florida and also rialto with one of the studies we have done. Theyre all agencies that have done a good job and are still engaged. Thank you for the question. There is only of few may have 22 agencies and i can think of a couple of the top of my head to come up on the year to have success wi
Hillary clinton continues hir visit today in cedar fall. Shes taking part in a roundtable discussion on Small Businesses and lending. And live coverage this morning on capitol hill the Senate Transportation committee holding a hearing on reauthorizing faa programs, focusing on modernizing the air Traffic Control system. The administrator of the faa is michael werta. Well be hearing from him as national air Traffic Controller associations president and others. The chair arrived. South Dakota Republican john thune. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. The Commerce Committee concludes the series of planned hearings on reauthorization of the federal Aviation Administration with an examination of the nations air Traffic Control system. Let me begin by thanking aviation subcommittee chair and Ranking Member for taking us through several valuable hearings on the way to this full committee hearing. Its been a busy work period and a great deal o
At the National Press club at washington, d. C. If you missed any of the remarks or want to watch them again it will be up on our website shortly. An update on democratic candidate for president hillary clinton. The share of the Senate Select Committee Says the state department has released 300 selfselected emails from the former secretary. One of those emails the Associated Press reports she received classified information on benghazi on her private email server. That was classified today at the fbis request. The email in question relates to reports of arrested in libya of possible suspects in the attack. It was not classified at the time the email was sent but was upgraded from unclassified to secret. 23 words of the november 2012 email were redaktcted. You can read more at yahoo news from the Associated Press. This weekend join c span for some of this years commencement speeches including va secretary robert mcdonald. And back in 1983 when i was graduating from high school, the song