Keynote Address, Dr. Nield at ISPCS 2011
Keynote Address- U.S. competitiveness: Where do we stand what can we do?
George Nield, Associate Administrator, Commercial Space Transportation, FAA
10 Actions to Increase National Competitiveness (starts at 14:29)
Audience questions: (starts at 20:53)
- Given that ITA & EAR resulted in a dramatic reduction in the ability of the US satellite industry to compete globally what lessons learned is the US Gov’t using to prevent the same thing from happening in the commercial space flight industry?
- What would be the key liability refunds?
- Is the COE/CST going to continue to be operated by a set of committees?
- How elastic is the suborbital science and engineering market and why do you hold that opinion?
- What will be the impact of China’s space program on the US gov’t and the commercial industry’s motivation?
- I’ve read in press that FAA/CST budget may be cut back, can you go through what your priorities will be if budgets fall and what you might slip out?
