- Modernize the nation’s export control system to build interoperability, capability, and defense cooperation with friends and allies
- Ensure that global aerospace trade is conducted fairly, securely, ethically, and transparently without market-distorting interventions that impair competitiveness
- Ensure economic competitiveness and world leadership through robust investment in research and development
- Develop a highly skilled, stable, secure, and renewable aerospace workforce to ensure America’s national security and economic prosperity
- Develop a 21st century acquisition process that gives our military personnel the best equipment at the best value for the taxpayer
- Strengthen the responsiveness and capability of U.S. national security space programs
- Transport people and goods with increasing safety, security, and efficiency while eliminating infrastructure constraints to economic growth
- Ensure a national consensus to adequately fund national defense as a high and enduring priority
- Ensure environmental standards and policies that are global in development and application
- Increase U.S. government financial and policy support for civil and commercial space projects
All highly worthy “suggestions” for our political “wanna-be’s”, regardless of which higher office they seek. I mean, let’s face some facts here— the aerospace industry generated $184 billion in sales for the U.S. economy in 2006 and provided a record trade surplus of $55 billion in 2006, generated from $85 billion in exports. Mix in that employment in the U.S. aerospace industry reached 635,000 at the end of 2006, with these highly-paid jobs existing in nearly every state across the nation. By the way, the industry backlog in 2006 was nearly $300 billion, fueling continued financial strength in the industry for years to come. Visit the AIA’s election website for direct links to detailed proposals.
