mr. huerta, its risks. know aboutt we aviation today. it is a major part of our economy, it is relatively safe, relatively safe. tens of thousands of aircraft day andskies every transport passengers, shipping goods, performing public safety mixes and given -- missions and given the large wide variety that use our national airspace our safety is amazingly and remarkably good. i'm very proud of that record think the f.a.a. should be, too. it is the product of a lot of by the aviation industry and safety officials at the federal aviation administration and other agencies and also people that have not seen good results from folks fromhe lackawana, new york, the pressure that they bring to make get safer.hings also the product of some tough lessons learned in the aftermath of some serious accidents. we will have to use those lessons as a guide and we confront the latest in aviation which is --all of this is a very interesting subject. we are all familiar with and iraq and most have questions about that. on the other hand, here is this whole n

mr. huerta, and your testimony you identified several steps that the faa has already taken to help bring this new technology into our nation's aviation system. your testimony also discusses the challenges to broader and faster uaf integration into our national airspace system including such things as pilot training privacy concerns, many things that have already been discussed. what do you believe is the federal government's biggest challenge for safe and efficient uaf commercial integration into our national airspace? significant thing we have to address is that right now, today, this technology operates by exception in the national airspace system. congress has directed us and the faa is very focused on, how do we integrate this technology into the airspace system? visit -- there is a wide scope of things to consider. what we need to get to is a regime where unmanned aircraft can operate in the same way that manned aircraft operate within the national airspace system. were are considerations that have with respect to the safety of the aircraft themselves, the certification of the opera

mr. huerta, i want to ask you, regarding f.a.a. process, as to how much -- what responsibilities and how you will take a look at cyber security and protection from hacking. of the we already know that this is taking place. a privacy issue and a safety issue because hacking the system -- and we had hack publicly released system at an air force 2011 -- can result in disclosure of the collection of information that will be it'scted even though protected by privacy laws from release or whatever information is going to be collectedded. system.ng to be in the wayjust as a result of the the system works. also know that there is a safety issue here, a very significant safety issue. the problem with creech. if you can get into the system control and use the unmanned for other purposes than intended. so i wonder if you could just me a little bit of download in terms of what your thinking goon this, how we need to forward on this issue from a federal level. obviously there will have to be a number of agencies involved. >> i'm very concerned a